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"Declarations of the Grand Artificer" CD
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 RELEASE DATE 3.27.2012 (US) / 3.26.2011 (WORLD)!!!
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NADIWRATH / HEXENMEISTER
"Raze The Cosmic Inexistence" SPLIT CD
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 RELEASE DATE 5.22.2012 (US) / 5.21.2011 (WORLD)!!!
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HIEMS
"Cold Void Journey" 2xCD
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 OUT NOW! CULT 2011 RELEASES STILL CRUSHING THE CROSS!
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SARGEIST / DROWNING THE LIGHT
"Crimson Wine/As The Blood Flows On..." 7" EP Lim. Ed. 500
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 OUT NOW! CULT 2010 RELEASES STILL EVOKING DAMNATION!
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THRALL
"Away From The Haunts Of Men" Enhanced CD
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HAERESIARCHS OF DIS
"Denuntiatus Cinis" CD
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SATAN'S HOST
"Assault Of Evil... 666" DVD
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 OUT NOW!!! THE 2009 ARSENAL ! STILL DESTROYING ALL !!!
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HORNA
"Musta Kaipuu" CD
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MP3 Pre-Listening:
Piina
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DRAWN AND QUARTERED
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 ABHOR'S New Video "Seven Magic"
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 SATAN'S HOST New Video "Nightside of Eden" Teaser!!!
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 THRALL New Video "Vermin to the Earth" Teaser!!!
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NORTHWESTERN BLACK CIRCLE 4 WT/ INFERNAL LEGION, CHASMA, & FORNICATOR
JUNE 15th, 16th & 17th @ Bossonova Ballroom and Branr in Portland OR

Pick-up INFERNAL LEGION's Killer new album - "The Spear of Longinus" out now on The Cult!!!

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Pick-up CHASMA's Killer new album - "Declarations of the Grand Artificer" out now on The Cult!!!

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DODSFERD -UNDER THE BLACK SUN FESTIVAL & SVARTFEST III
JULY. 6 & 7, 2012 Reiterhof Helenenau, Börnicke, Germany
WITH Subvertio Deus, Drengskapur, Waffenträger Luzifers,
Blackdeath, Blaze Of Perdition, Dusken, Forgotten Tomb, Forteresse, Infernal Execrator, Isvind, Kampfar, Khaos Aeon, Nabat, Nargaroth, Nightbringer, No Empathy, Salacious Gods, Sarkom
Pick-up DODSFERD's Killer albums - "Spitting with Hatred" and
"Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow" out now on The Cult!!!

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More Tour Dates To Be Announced Soon!!!
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 BLEEDING FIST New Video "Monuments Desecration" !!!
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 BLEEDING FIST New Video "Invocation Into Devil's Flesh" !!!
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 THRALL New Video "Torrent Of Death" !!!
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 MERRIMACK New Video "In The Halls Of White Death" !!!
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 BLEEDING FIST New Video "Morbid Psychotic Distortion P.1" !!!
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 HORDE OF HEL New Video "Hail Chaos / Dödens ära" !!!
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 HACAVITZ New Video "Omitzhuicazquia Tezcatlipoca" !!!
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 DRAWN AND QUARTERED New Video "Merciless Hammer..." !!!
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 APOSTOLUM New Video "Days of Crucifixion" !!!
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 DRAWN AND QUARTERED Video "Hail Infernal Darkness" !!!
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Featured Artist - Full Album Streaming Page
Thrall
Abhor
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February 25, 2012- BLEEDING FIST news: lineup change + live album !!!
Today, Slovenian chaos black metallers BLEEDING FIST have announced the departure of drummer Lexecutioner. "Soon, new details regarding the line-up and the new era of BLEEDING FIST will be known," reads a statement from the band. In other BLEEDING FIST news, the band will release in December their first live album, entitled Bestial Black Metal Over Berlin, via Haliaetum Records (www.haliaetumrecords.com) and licensed by MORIBUND.
BLEEDING FIST released the Devil's Ferox MCD this past May through MORIBUND to rave reviews. TheMCD comprised five brand-new songs, including a tribute track to the legendary Death SS, and also include an enhanced portion featuring videos for "Invocation Into Devil's Flesh" and the EP's title track. A video for the MCD's "Monuments Desecration" was completed earlier this and can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWM-KxA8hUw
For more info, consult
www.bleeding-fist.com or www.myspace.com/bleedingfist
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February 25, 2012- NOCTURNAL FEAR announce title of next album, promise true "war metal"!!!
Michigan thrash squadron NOCTURNAL FEAR announce Sadistic Inquisition as the title for their next studio album, slated for release later this year through MORIBUND RECORDS. The band's fourth album for the label (and sixth overall), Sadistic Inquisition is set to feature such songs as "Invincible Warlord," "Seal Team 666," "Bite the Curb," "Code Name - Trinity," "Blood on the Battle Field," "Cold as Death (Life of Crime)," and "Invade to Conquer Pt. 2."
Featuring the same lineup from last year's critically acclaimed Excessive Cruelty, guitarist/songwriter Rev. Chris Slavehunter PhD promises that the imminent Sadistic Inquisition "will be our heaviest, fastest, and most militant release yet! It will be a surge in which we will burn all bridges behind us, further distancing ourselves in a bid for isolation as America's War Metal Assassins - indeed, WAR METAL SKINHEADS! This ain't Blasphemy, this ain't Revenge, and this ain't Canada. This is NOCTURNAL FEAR, this is Detroit, and THIS IS THE REAL SHIT! Reviewers won't be happy, but true fucking bangers who want their faces ripped off and fed to our PACK OF ROTTWEILERS won't be let down."
More news to be revealed soon, but in the meantime, check out NOCTURNAL FEAR's official websites at ReverbNation and Facebook.
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September 30, 2011 - AZAGHAL announce release date for new album + cover art + track listing!!!
Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces January 31st, 2012 as the release date for AZAGHAL's forthcoming album, Nemesis.Recorded at Cursed Studio in Finland, AZAGHAL's Nemesis will feature 11 tracks of the band's patented "Black Terror Metal," a style of which is uniquely AZAGHAL's and theirs only: pure, "classic" black metal that remains fresh and "modern." Nemesis is AZAGHAL's ninth album overall and third album for MORIBUND, following 2009's critically acclaimed Teraphim.
Additionally, AZAGHAL have revealed the cover and track listing to Nemesis as thus:

Nemesis tracklisting:
01 In Deathlike Silence
02 Pohjoisen Valkoinen Kuolema
03 De Masticatione Mortuorum
04 Vihasta ja Veritöistä
05 Hail the Whore
06 Ex Nihilo
07 The Baying of the Dead
08 Nemesis
09 Black Legions of Satan
10 The Pit of Shoggoths
11 Satanic Devotion
Finally, a preview track for "Hail the Whore" (off Nemesis);
can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2uR14nXNA
For more info, consult and www.myspace.com/azaghalterrorcult.
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September 30, 2011 - PACT signs with MORIBUND, debut album imminent!!!
Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces the signing of PACT, who will release their The Dragon Lineage of Satan debut through the label early next year. Harsh and harrowing and yet with a mystical atmosphere, PACT are a black metal band from Pennsylvania who have been perfecting their dark craft in the shadows for the past six years. Says the band, "Our music is driven by the forces of chaos and death. It has seemed to us, as a band, that religion is a disease that plagued the earth by keeping people locked in the position of follower. We have always rebelled against this, and therefore play black metal infused with occult philosophy and power. Among the philosophies and traditions practiced are Golden Dawn, Germanic, and chaos magick - also the philosophies of Nietzsche and Kant, as well as the poetry of Blake, Crowley, and Baudelaire. Our ultimate goal is to cause change!"
PACT comprises vocalist Hag, guitarist Wretch, and T on drums. Concluding, the band says, "PACT is a vehicle for occult magick - a source of whirling chaotic energies and manifestations of the augoeides or higher creative genius. We proudly embrace the spirit of Satan and carry with us the divine fire of Lucifer. We are very pleased to represent the mighty MORIBUND Cult."
A release date for PACT's The Dragon Lineage of Satan will be announced shortly.
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August 30, 2011 - CHASMA sign with MORIBUND, label debut imminent!!!
Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces the signing of CHASMA. A trio from Portland, Oregon, CHASMA are set to release their MORIBUND debut, Declarations of the Grand Artificer, later this year. With three songs clocking in at nearly 33 minutes, CHASMA's Declarations of the Grand Artificer is a bewildering but above all transcendent record, an epic recasting of classic black metal into otherworldly shapes and a plausibly modern contour. A specific release date for the album will be announced shortly.
Formed in 2008 by members of Nanda Devi and Alter of Earth, CHASMA began as a side-project to experiment with yet another form of extreme metal. After writing and recording three songs, CHASMA released a demo tape with the French black metal label Aural Offerings and began performing live. After encouragement from Aural Offerings and the local Northwest metal scene, CHASMA made another recording that was released by Aural Offerings on tape and CD. After playing two years of amazing shows with the likes of Wolves in the Throne Room, Bloody Panda, Trees, Thou, Nux Vomica, and Fell Voices, CHASMA guitarist Tony Komforty departed the project and was replaced by Klaus Maza of the LA crust band Sheeeeeeeep.
"Musically, we are influenced by new millenium-era French black metal and DC screamo," says the band, "and bands like Weakling, Joyless, Ameseours, and Majority Rule. We are influenced by the intensity and passion of our brotherhood as musicians and try to express that passion through dimension bending riffs. We don't really fit the black metal label; we consider ourselves either noir nouveau ['new black'] or bright metal."
"We're so stoked to work with the elite metal cult that is MORIBUND," the bands says, concluding. "We look forward to crusading across globe under their flag."
For more info, consult www.chasmablack.tumblr.com
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August 26, 2011 - SATAN'S HOST new album details and new MORIBUND contract!!!-
Colorado Satanic Metal Masters Satan's Host will be releasing "CELEBRATION For the Love of Satan" on Nov. 22 US/ Nov. 21 World, via Moribund Cult Records. The new disc is a compilation of 2 new songs and songs from each album that spans the career of the band, except from earlier 2011 release "By the Hands of the Devil" to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of the cult classic and debut album "Metal from Hell". The new disc was once again recorded with Producer Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver Colorado and has exclusive artwork by world renown artists Chris Moyen and Joe Petagno, and photography by Brent Boutte of Mirrorlife productions. Satan's Host recently resigned with Moribund Records for another 2 album deal with exclusive options. The band will also be one of the Headliners at the Up the Hammers festival in Athens Greece in March 2012 and will also be appearing at the Gothic Theatre for the 4th annual Raven Eggs and Kegs Radio Show Halloween Bash hosted by Raven on Oct. 21 in Denver CO.
The track list:
01) For the Love of Satan- new tune
02) Hell Fire- Metal from Hell
03) Metal from Hell- Metal from Hell
04) Witches Return- Midnight Wind
05) Cauldron of the Ancients- In Articulo Mortis
06) Nightside of Eden- Archidoxes of Evil
07) Ecliptic Equinox- Burning the Born Again (A New Philosophy)
08) H.E.L.L.- Burning the Born Again (A New Philosophy)
09) Satanic Grimoire- Satanic Grimoire: A Greater Black Magick
10) "The Cursing" Vampyric Evil-Eye- Great American Scapegoat…666
11) Dark Priest "Lord Ahriman"- Power~Purity~Perfection…999
12) Convictions- new tune
For more info, consult www.satanshost.com
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August 20, 2011 - BAHIMIRON set release date for new album!!! -
American black metal outlaws BAHIMIRON are ready to unleash
their wolves to the flesh of Christ with Rebel Hymns of Left Handed
Terror this fall on MORIBUND RECORDS. Set for release on October
25th, BAHIMIRON's Rebel Hymns of Left Handed Terror will
contain nine hymns of rabid bestial nightmares, all in
devotion to total death and the fiery depths of the black
abyss. Full of rusty edges, this third shank in the guts will
host such songs as "Their Blood Shall Fill My Chalice," "Bestial Raids of
Antichrist Darkness," "Goathorned Messiah of the 7 Gates," and "Anointed in
Serpents Blood." "This is the album that goes back to the true roots of
black death metal for us," confirms vocalist/guitarist Grimlord, "all the
things that originally hooked me into playing this type of heresy - the
kind of stuff that comes at you with knives and the blood of Satan."
One of the underground's most unpredictable yet potent forces,
BAHIMIRON are always on the move, keeping everyone guessing whilst staying
forever true to their twisted, hideous muse. Following on from their critically
acclaimed/reviled second album (and first for MORIBUND), Southern
Nihilizm, their latest Rebel Hymns of Left Handed
Terror continues the trajectory that each BAHIMIRON full-length
has been different than the one that preceded it, and here they dive
deep into the most primitive, primeval black metal but then tear it asunder with
haunting nuances entirely their own. Indeed, these are Rebel Hymns of Left
Handed Terror!
For more info, consult www.bahimiron.com
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August 20, 2011 - APOSTOLUM finishing new album for MORIBUND, their first record in four years!
Italian dark metallers APOSTOLUM are currently finising their
new album for MORIBUND, to be entitled Winds of Disillusion.
The follow-up to APOSTOLUM's previous record for MORIBUND, 2007's
Anedonia, the quartet's Winds of Disillusion should be
completed by September or October, with an early 2012 release likely.
Guitarist Stone reports: "Winds of Disillusion is the consecration of
APOSTOLUM, and will be a long ladder through the planes of existence, a journey
inside the ruins of life, against a stupid existence of human life. The work
will be very different from Anedonia - a disc much more
complex, oppressive and obsessive, a record that clears the positive
emotions. To suffer is to produce knowledge...."
For more info, consult www.myspace.com/apostolum
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July 17, 2011 - ABHOR sign with MORIBUND, set release date for new album!!! -
Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces the signing of cult Italian black metal band ABHOR. One of the oldest names in Italian black metal, ABHOR make their MORIBUND debut with Ab Luna Lucenti, Ab Noctua Protecti, set for release on September 27th. Their first album for MORIBUND and fifth one overall, Ab Luna Lucenti… is an otherworldly voyage into mysteries unknown, a twilit sojourn through esoteric realms, with the vessel being the sort mystical of black metal as only the ancient masters can create. Enter the halls of ancient mysticism and occult magick with ABHOR's Ab Luna Lucenti, Ab Noctua Protecti!
Commenting on the signing, ABHOR stated the following: "After 16 years in the underground and a long period of silence, ABHOR is back. We're finally proud to announce that from now on we'll follow the sinister path along with the MORIBUND CULT. Expect the most occult music you've ever listened to...slow, sinister, and brooding with evil intent!"
More info, including a full ABHOR biography, follows below. In the meantime, consult www.moribundcult.com and www.legioneocculta.com for further news.
BIOGRAPHY
ABHOR was born in 1995 in order to combine the passion for music and the study of esoteric arts. For this reason, ABHOR represents a form of global art that embraces musical art, visual art and literal art. The first demo (In Nostrum Maleficium) is printed in 1998. Subsequently, they printed during the years five full-length CDs with different labels.
Over the years, many musicians take part to ABHOR, including members of Evol. Nowadays, ABHOR is one of the oldest and best-known Italian black metal bands still active, together with such names as Mortuary Drape, Opera IX and Handful of Hate.
Musically, ABHOR plays horrorific black metal that's esoterically based. ABHOR's music stands for the unmistakable mystical atmosphere that makes personal and unique the
sound of the band. The concepts concern occultism, esoterism, alchemy, witchcraft, Satanism and folklore.
SYNTHESIS
ORIGIN: North-East Italy / Veneto
FORMED IN: 1995
GENRE: Esoteric Horror Black Metal
LYRICAL THEMES: Occultism, Satanism, Witchcraft
LINE UP
Ulfhedhnir: vocals (Arish, Selenefrost)
Domine Saevum Gravem: guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals (Oraculum, Sophus, Kaprogoat)
Kvasir: bass guitar, guitars (Profezia, Ancient Supremacy, Spiritual)
DISCOGRAPHY
1998 - In tuo honori preparatum (demo)
1999 - Nox isecuta est (demo)
2000 - Nequqquam Vacuum (CD Black Tears rec.)
2000 - I.gne N.atura R.enovatur I.ntegra (CD Dark Horizon rec.)
2002 - Promo 2002 (promo)
2004 - Live in Italy (DVD Blackmetaldvd.com)
2004 - Vocat Spiritum Morti (miniCD The Oath rec.)
2005 - Vehementia (CD The Oath rec.)
2006 - Vehementia (pro tape East Europe edition - Misanthropic Propaganda rec.)
2008 - In nostrum Maleficium (CD Hearse rec.)
LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH
Ancient, Bastard Saints, Behemoth, Carpathian Forest, Celestia, Enslaved, Enthroned, Evol, Frostmoon Eclipse, Goatreich666, Handful of Hate, Horna, Mayhem, Mortuary Drape, Nargaroth, Nefarium, Opera IX, Seth, Taake, Theatres des vampires, Tsjuder, VII Arcano...
INFO
www.legioneocculta.com
Domine Saevum Gravem : saevum@hotmail.it
Ulfhedhnir : abhor666@libero.it
Kvasir : nordlys@email.it
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June 30, 2011 - Satan's Host to record "CELEBRATION For the Love of Satan" -
MORIBUND recording artists SATAN'S HOST are entering Flatline Studios with producer Dave Otero (CEPHALIC CARNAGE, COBALT) on July 18 to commence recording a "celebration album" to commemorate the 25th anniversary release of their debut album, the cult classic Metal from Hell. The new & exclusive compilation will contain a few new songs and revamped versions of classic tunes that span the band's career, with returned original vocalist Leviathan Thisiren (AKA Harry Conklin - JAG PANZER, TITAN FORCE) offering his unique take on the songs.
"CELEBRATION For the Love of Satan" is set for release in November 2011 via MORIBUND RECORDS, and confirmed songs so far include brand-new songs "For the Love of Satan" and "Convictions," the title track to Metal from Hell, "Witches Return," "Nightside of Eden," "H.E.L.L.," "Dark Priest (Lord Ahriman)," and the title track to Satanic Grimoire.
In other SATAN'S HOST news, a special "making of" documentary for the band's latest By the Hands of the Devil can be found here: LINK
Released last month by MORIBUND, By the Hands of the Devil is the first SATAN'S HOST album since their Metal from Hell debut to feature the powerhouse vocals of Leviathan Thisiren/Harry Conklin. It has been met with unanimous acclaim all around the world.
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June 30, 2011 - THRALL to release new album on MORIBUND +++ reveal title, tracklisting -
October / November 2011 - a year after their debut release on MORIBUND RECORDS, "Away From the Haunts of Men", THRALL will unleash their virulent second album, Vermin to the Earth. MORIBUND will release Vermin worldwide, with the exceptions of Australia and New Zealand, where Obsidian Records will release it.
Vermin documents the metamorphosis of THRALL from a sanguinary studio project to a formidable live entity that now includes Leigh Ritson (ex Disseminate) on bass and Ramez Bathish (ex Whitehorse / ABC Weapons) on second guitar. THRALL built their live reputation on punishing volume and an atmosphere of menace.
Vermin delivers a unique blend of old-school black metal and hypnotic void-worship. Songs range from bile-soaked mid-paced anthems ("Vermin to the Earth / Oblivion") to desolate lurching dirges ("Plague of Man") to blasting suicidal elegies ("Vita Vacuus Voluntas"). The new album is more: cohesive, hefty, solemn and yet more spacious than THRALL's debut, Away from the Haunts of Men. Vermin is a requiem to a cursed species. It advocates the expiration of the reign of homo sapiens and heralds the post-human era.
A preview track from the album will be added to the MORIBUND RECORDS website in the coming months.
"This album was written live and tracked very fucking quickly. In my opinion, Vermin is more evocative and cathartic than Haunts was. Those who are meant to unlock the spell of this album, will - those who aren't, will not." - Tom Void
"Vermin maintains a very live sound even in the studio, and I think it will surprise many people who know the first album as to just how different this sophomore is." - Em Støy.
Vermin was recorded across two hemispheres and continents. Drums were recorded in April 2010 by Ippei Suda (known for his work with Corrupted) at LM Studio, Osaka, Japan. Guitars, bass and vocals were recorded by Trent Griggs June - July 2010 at The Gate, Margate, Tasmania. The album was mixed by Trent Griggs August 2010 - June 2010 at The Gate, Margate, Tasmania. In July, the album will be mastered by Jack the Bear (Tony Mantz) at Deluxe Mastering, Melbourne, Victoria.
Tracklist for THRALL's Vermin to the Earth 1. Vermin to the Earth 2. Oblivion 3. Disease's Maiming Caress 4. Plague of Man 5. Mass Extinction 6. Ecstasy not of the Flesh 7. Vita Vacuus Voluntas
Album Personnel:
Tom Void - vocals, guitars, bass
Em Støy - additional vocals, drums
Album Guests:
Trent Griggs - additional vocals, additional guitar
Live Personnel:
Tom Void - vocals, guitar
Em Støy - vocals, drums
Leigh Ritson (ex Disseminate)- bass
Ramez Bathish (ex Whitehorse, ex ABC Weapons) - guitar
Thrall:
www.thrallofvoid.com
www.myspace.com/thrallofvoid
https://www.facebook.com/pages/THRALL/30792381960
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June 30, 2011 - CANIS DIRUS recording new album, reveals title -
Today, Minnesota black metal group CANIS DIRUS reveal that they are recording the follow-up to their critically acclaimed MORIBUND debut album, A Somber Wind From a Distant Shore. Entitled Anden om Norr - which loosely translates, from Swedish to English, as "The Spirit from the North" - the duo's second album for MORIBUND will again be recorded at the band's own Harsh Winter Studios and will be mastered by AGALLOCH's Jason Walton. Additionally, one of the tracks will feature Claudio Alcara of FROSTMOON ECLIPSE on guitar.
Multi-instrumentalist TMP reveals more about CANIS DIRUS' forthcoming Anden om Norr: "Once again, we will take our inspiration from our beautiful nature / surroundings in northern Minnesota. As with the last album, A Somber Wind from a Distant Shore, the overall feel / atmosphere of the record will take on a more 'depressing / melancholy' view of how human scum continously treats nature with contempt and disrespect." Unfortunately, "we recently had a flood in the studio, which did some damage to some equipment, and also in the processs we lost some of the stuff we already had recorded. I have since 're-built' the studio and added some new equipment, which will definitely contribute to a much better production this time around."
CANIS DIRUS is completed by vocalist RH. Tentative release date for Anden om Norr will likely be during the fall of this year.
For more info on CANIS DIRUS, please consult www.myspace.com/thecanisdirus
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June 30, 2011 - MOON (Australia) signs with MORIBUND, release date set+++ -
Today, MORIBUND RECORDS announces the signing of Australia's MOON, dark occult black metal from one Miasmyr. The band's first release for MORIBUND shall be Caduceus Chalice, set for release on June 28th. MOON's Caduceus Chalice pervades a hypnotic sense of obscure mysticism within a dark ambience of distorted screams, cavernous echoes and entrancing pulse. Ceremonial Magick, invocations of spirits, glorifications of darkness, underworld realms and apocalyptic apparitions are the basis for this astral visionary experience. Breeding the unlife in archaic worlds, MOON is an ode to darkness and its spirit.
Biography
Obscure black metal from Brisbane, Australia, MOON is the visionary experience of ceremonial magick and astral projection. It works through transcendent hypnosis and bleak atmospheres.
Formed in 2007 by one Miasmyr, MOON stirred interest in the underground black metal scene for its ethereal spirit and raw but evocative sound. Three EPs were released, which sold well, and gained MOON a small following. The first full-length, Caduceus Chalice, was released on cassette in early 2010 and will be released on June 28th, 2011 on CD through MORIBUND RECORDS. MOON have been playing live since 2009, putting on dark and evocative shows in Brisbane.
Miasmyr has played in several black metal bands since 1999. Starting with the cult Catacomb, which played for many years in Brisbane, he has also played in Urgrund and Forn Valdyrheim. MOON, his solo project, also developed a strong following within its early life, starting with a compilation MCD called Magick Rituals from the Dutch label Svartgalgh Records. He went on to release a self-titled EP through Wolfsvuur (Netherlands) and two more MCDs, Apparitions and Blood. Following that, he featured as being the only black metal band on the Brismetal compilation with "Apparition III" from the Apparitions EP. Another split was released featuring MOON, Nekrosov and Nekros Manteia called The Haunting Resonance (Fall of Nature Records), which received good reviews for exhibiting black metal's fringes with outside genres.
The new full-length Caduceus Chalice was released on limited-edition audio cassette through Wolfsvuur Records (Netherlands) in February 2010. It evokes the darkness of the underworld and necromantic summonings. It has the underground black metal sound like Elysian Blaze, Xasthur and Striborg.
MOON is currently getting together a new lineup to play more live shows in Australia.
Credits
All tracks written and recorded by Miasmyr (Paul Marsh) of MOON except for "The Caverns" track with guest percussionist Aciretose.
All releases have been mastered at Alchemix Studios (www.Alchemix.com.au) by Marly Luske. Logo art and cover designs by Dirge (Kieran Gelders)
Live session players past and present:
Aciretose - Drums,
Dirge - Bass
Daan - Guitar
James - Vocals
(Miasmyr - Guitar, vocals)
Krist - Drums
Karnull - Vocals
Musical Content
MOON's descent into the occult is an unhinging and breaking down of the self to open the inner mind. Its representation of spirits and daemons are keys to unlocking gateways of the psyche; they eliminate meaning and structure of the rational mind so to free the self to be brought into the infinite realm of darkness. This takes place in the Astral Nightside and Regnum Spiritus (the spirit world). Much like in dreams, a breaking of continuity and hyper-association is found in the music.
Influences are taken from workings with well-known grimoires such as The Goetia and the Necronomicon and more contemporary works such as those by Ea Koetting and Michael W. Ford. The music is to serve as guided imagery for astral projection; much of the content is either an astral journey or ritual. Forest Samhain is one such ritual which takes place on the day of and in the place of its title; this is a ritual of necromancy and darkness.
The full-length title Caduceus Chalice is a reference to masculine and feminine symbolism which is used in numerous areas of the occult. They are used as such in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck and in Goetic Witchcraft. The chalice also represents introspection and the Astral Nightside; the song "Chalice" is one such journey into its abysmal depths.
Form and Style
MOON's music thus far has been recorded by Miasmyr in his own basement studio. The approach to self-production aids in introspective expression. Many of the songs have grown over a period in atmosphere and character; it is this building of spirit that makes the music strong.
Often, the density is stripped back to help the layers and parts come through effectively. There is a combination of blending and layering parts to form unique timbres and tones. Effects on keyboards, guitar and vocals are vehicles only for the creation of a brooding sound; it is the drive of the arcane spirit that directs the development of the music.
The use of repetition and subtle development is a means to draw the listener into a hypnotic state. The different instrumental parts often play as entities, subtly influencing the dimension set up in the mind of the listener. Use of reverb creates space for the music to live and breathe, giving a cavernous echo to the sound overall. The choirs are a dominant and atmospheric element which has remained part of MOON's sound from the beginning; they are characterized as spirits invoking the listener into a bleak and arcane demise and build greater dimension to this sanctum of unlife.
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