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Decimating the underground in 2006 with a split CD with Teratism and their aptly titled debut album, "Pure Negativism: In Allegiance With Self Wreckage," Texan black-metal warlords BAHIMIRON have signed with the MORIBUND CULT for their second, as-yet-untitled album! Like their UG-celebrated debut, expect whisky-fueled filthy blackened WAR violence with their native chaotic flavor - puke for self wreckage! www.bahimiron.com
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Having previously released a collection of demo recordings via the Blackmetal.com label, Greek one-man army DODSFERD has been signed to the CULT and will issue his debut for the label on January 30th, 2007. Aptly titled "Fucking Your Creation," DODSFERD's debut heralds forth a new era of intolerance. Grim and dirty yet epic, DODSFERD's black 'n' roll attack will soon be spoken of in the same breath as SARGEIST, Craft, Veles, and "Black Metal ist Krieg"-era Nargaroth - prepare to be fucked! As a bonus, the first 3000 pressed will be released with the MORIBUND "Deathcult," 19-track label sampler!
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Featuring half of the original Vital Remains lineup, the songwriting core of that band's legendary "Let Us Pray" album, GODLESS RISING are new-yet-seasoned enlistments into the MORIBUND CULT's elite ranks of Satanic death metal. Earlier this year the Rhode Island quintet self-released their first album, "Rising Hatred," and now the MORIBUND CULT will unleash their second album, "Battle Lord’s", tentatively set for release on summer 2007. Violent and vigorous, serpentine and seething with occult energy, GODLESS RISING evoke "Covent"-era Morbid Angel and early Vader but with a demonic grace all their own! www.godlessrising.com
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Featuring members who have a long resume in the black arts (Forgotten Tomb, Macabre Omen, Handful of Hate, Frostmoon Eclipse), Italy's HIEMS is a study in cold precision and epic construction. Last year's "Cold Void Journey" introduced HIEMS to the black metal underground, and now the MORIBUND CULT will release the band's second "tba" album in 2007 – further proof that new blood flows the deepest! www.hiems.net
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With trance-inducing black magic, black metal scene-legends HORNA will domestically unleash their latest "Aania Yossa" on January 30th, 2007. Their strongest, starkest statement yet amongst an enviously deep, widely celebrated catalog, "Aania Yossa" features three tracks of gnarly filth and closes with the none-more-epic 22-minute title track, the virtual sound of Hell slowly swallowing you whole - cold as death, hypnotic as the fog! To celebrate this soon-to-be-classic, the CULT will domestically issue some of that celebrated back catalog: 1999's monumental and mesmerizing "Haudankylmyyden Mailla," and respective, grim-as-fuck split CDs with fellow Finnish filth-hounds Behexen and Musta Surma, all three slated for release throughout spring - summer 2007. Plans are also in the beginning stages to bring HORNA stateside for their first US tour... interested agents and clubs should get in touch with the MORIBUND CULT for more information. www.legion-horna.com
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Militant death metal infantry ARGHOSLENT have had their debut album, "Galloping Through the Battle Ruins," reissued by the CULT. Caustic and crude yet classy and complex, this reissue is mandatory for all non-posers. Likewise, the band's unsurpassed, poser-killing second album, "Incorrigible Bigotry," is still available via the CULT.
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Avant-garde black metallers whose creativity knows no bounds, Minnesota's enigmatic AZRAEL will be soon recording their next album for the CULT - and similar to the classics "Into Shadows Acts 1" and "2," it will be a double-album. Vocalist/bassist/drummer Algol says the band will be recording at Winterland Studios in Minneapolis in late April, and the album's still entitled "Self...Goat." Minds will be blown.
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Opinion is nearly unanimous: CATACOMBS' "In the Depths of R'lyeh" debut is one severely intense slice of extreme doom/death. The press far and wide have been raving about mainman Xathagorra's mesmerizing, monolithic towers of trance, with high-profile features seen in such mags as "Metal Maniacs," "Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles," "Unrestrained!," "Pit," "Caustic Truths," "Explicitly Intense," and others. Have your head and heart caved in yet?
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Bay Area one-man black metal army CREBAIN is in the mixing process of its CULT debut, title TBA. Expect tortuous screams, mangled riffing, and other hatred for "social" so-called black metal, and yet another crown jewel for Bay Area Black Metal.
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While mainman Hildolf s CULT debut, "Weathering the Curse," still continues to entrance critics and fans alike, work has already begun on the next DRAUGAR album, as yet untitled. Humanity will be cursed once again, and that's a guarantee!
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Northwest death metal legends DRAWN AND QUARTERED's fourth and latest album, fittingly titled "Hail Infernal Darkness," has sown widespread acclaim far and wide, and has seen the band featured in such magazines as "Metal Maniacs," "Explicitly Intense," "Pit," "Hails and Horns," and "Transcending the Mundane," among others. Never ones to rest on their laurels, DRAWN AND QUARTERED are currently in production for a video to the title track of "Hail Infernal Darkness" as well as entering the studio this summer to record their fifth, as-yet-untitled album. Once again, posers have been warned!
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The mysterious enigma otherwise known as FEAR OF ETERNITY continues to amaze with not only the quantity of his creativity two albums for the CULT, Toward the Castle and Spirit of Sorrow, in less than a year but also its undeniable, spellbinding quality. And the spellbinding continues with yet another new album, Ancient Symbolism, set for release on July 18th. More melancholy, more misery, more majesty, more mesmerizing: FEAR OF ETERNITY is arcane black metal art, as ageless as the earth.
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The ride of black/death/war-metal masters HACAVITZ leads now to South America. As the band's "Venganza" continues to reap the whirlwind with fans and critics alike, HACAVITZ have confirmed a South American tour, starting on May 31st. The band will post more info and the tour schedule as soon as be possible, and in the meantime encourage local promoters to get in touch. Even better, reports drum-commando Oscar Garcia, "HACAVITZ is close to finishing the writing process for the upcoming and still-nameless album. Probably this new release will contain 10-11 tracks, once again under the banner of the most venomous and somber death/black sound! The record is planned to happen before the end of 2006."
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Northwest death-dealers INFERNAL LEGION are currently writing material for their next CULT album, currently untitled but slated for release next year. Expect soul-destroying death metal mastery!
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Vocalist Nihilist of Seattle dark metallers IN MEMORIUM offered this update: "IN MEMORIUM are currently working on the next recording. New songs are being fleshed out, and song titles are all tentative at this point. However, the titles we are working with are 'One Above All,' 'Autumnal Apparitions,' and 'Within My Crypt.' Expect more dark, slow and depressive material, but with more intricate, vicious, fast and blasting sections than ever before. A new member has been added as well, but no names will be announced yet." IN MEMORIUM will also be playing the Northwest Death Fest on May 28th, alongside headlining bands Obituary, Sadus, and Deeds of Flesh, as well as the Rock the Mountain Fest on July 27th.
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Highly anticipated since the demise of previous label Selbstmord, the enigmatic KROHM has had its two releases, the "A World Through Dead Eyes" album and the "Crown of the Ancients" MCD (with "Slayer of Lost Martyrs" as bonus!), reissued via the CULT. The sole vision of Numinas (AKA Dario Derna, drummer of DRAWN AND QUARTERED, as well as former member of Evoken and Abazagorath), both emit utterly cult, unearthly black metal ala early Manes and prime Burzum. Numinas also reports that new songs are already being composed for the next album: "I am ending up with quite a bit of extra material so I might be looking into releasing a couple of songs on a split or EP, to be announced." The return of more misery & comfort!
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While "Howl Mockery at the Cross," a collection of rare demo recordings, continues to entrance and terrorize the public, mainman Wrest is currently recording his next, as-yet-untitled album for the CULT. The record should be finished by early May, says Wrest, and will likely probe similar depths of psychedelic insanity as modern classic "Tentacles of Whorror." Prepare for mind expansion/destruction!
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The wait is finally over, "Of Entropy and Life Denial" is finished and ready to terrorize the masses. A cult name in the black metal underground for a decade, French terrorists MERRIMACK unleash their CULT debut, "Of Entropy and Life Denial," on the momentous day of 6/6/06. Recorded by Necromorbus (Watain, Funeral Mist, Ondskapt, Armagedda), "Of Entropy and Life Denial" displays a band in full grasp of its menacing, mesmerizing powers, locating that ever-elusive balance between malicious underground spirit and wickedly simmered maturity - between towering might and contorting dexterity. Expect razor-wire riffs, wartorn battery, and black-blood vomiting vocals - the weak shall be decimated! Also see "Live Assaults" for a planned European holocaust later in the year.
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The Aztecian death metal masters SERPENS AEON are in the process of signing on for another two albums for the CULT. The band will begin recording this summer, with the album title to be announced, so expect more supernatural horror and classic, thrashing death as only these mystic Aztecs can deliver!
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Michigan's legendary Satanic beer-metal warriors SUMMON are currently writing new, blackthrashing material, and should be entering the studio this summer. In the meantime, SUMMON are playing many regional shows and additionally looking for tours. See "Live Assaults" below, or www.myspace.com/summon for more info. Attack!
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WIND OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS
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Founding vocalist/guitarist/bassist Tchort died of a drug overdose on March 23rd, 2006. May his soul rest in eternal flame.
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WHORE is no more. Long live WHORE. Not content to let "good taste" win out, vocalist Rob Fornicator is preparing a new, as-yet-unnamed project. Expect "bad taste" to win.
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Reports guitarist/vocalist Fascist, "WINTER OF APOKALYPSE is currently undergoing rehearsals for upcoming live performances, which will include a local show that will be followed by an appearance at the return of the Sacrifice of the Nazarene Child 6 festival in Texas. Returning home will see the initiation of the recording process for the second full-length album, which is untitled as of now. The recording will take place with Noah Campbell once again, and the line-up for the recording is as follows - Armageddon (Drums), Slut (Bass), and Fascist (Guitar, Vocals). Possession awaits..."
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Legendary one-man black metal cult XASTHUR will release his final recording for the CULT on August 15th. Simply entitled "Xasthur," this MCD will feature mainman Malefic s characteristically ruinous ruminations. The label would like to wish XASTHUR all the best in its future, soul-terrorizing endeavors!
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RELEASE DATE 06.10.2008 (US) / 06.09.2008 (EU/WORLD) !!!
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EMPIRE AURIGA
"Auriga Dying" CD
MP3 Pre-Listening:
Sorrowsong
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RELEASE DATE 07.15.2008 (US) / 07.14.2008 (EU/WORLD) !!!
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RELEASE DATE 08.12.2008 (US) / 08.11.2008 (EU/WORLD) !!!
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RELEASE DATE 08.26.2008 (US) / 08.25.2008 (EU/WORLD) !!!
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SARGEIST
"The Dark Embrace"
7" EP Lim. Ed. 1,000
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ARCKANUM
"Antikosmos" CD
(North America Only)
MP3 Pre-Listening:
Nakjeptir
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OCTOBER FALLS
"The Womb Of Primordial Nature" CD
(North America Only)
MP3 Pre-Listening:
III
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OUT NOW! RELEASE DATE 5.06.08 (US) / 5.05.08 (WORLD) !!!
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I SHALT BECOME
"Requiem" CD/LP/TS
MP3:
Enigma
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NASTROND
"Muspellz Synir" CD
(North America Only)
MP3:
Nastrond
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OUT NOW! RELEASE DATE 4.08.08 (US)/4.07.08 (EU/WORLD) !
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OUT NOW! RELEASE DATE 03.25.08 (US) / 03.24.08 (EU) !!!
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OUT NOW! RELEASE DATE 03.04.08 (US) / 03.03.08 (EU) !!!
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HORNA
"Pimeyden Hehku" MCD
(North America Only)
MP3:
Nostalgiaa
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OUT NOW! RELEASE DATE 02.12.08 (US) / 02.11.08 (EU) !!!
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SATAN'S HOST
"Great American Scapegoat 666" CD/TS
MP3:
Black Order
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OUT NOW!!! STILL CRUSHING THE CROSS!!!
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SATAN'S HOST
"Satanic Grimoire: A Greater Black Magick" CD
MP3:
Satanic Grimoire
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CORPUS CHRISTII
"Rising" CD
(North+South America Only)
MP3:
The Wanderer
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BROWN JENKINS
"Dagonite" CD
MP3:
Dagonite
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GODLESS RISING
"Rising Hatred" Re-issue CD
w/ 2 bonus Tracks
MP3:
Into Obscurity
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HORNA
"Sotahuuto" CD
(North America Only)
MP3:
Tuhontuoja
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SPEKTR
"Mescalyne" MCD
(North America Only)
MP3:
Mescalyne
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RELEASE DATE TBA 2008 / 2009 !!!
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DODSFERD "TBA" 3rd CD/LP
HORDE OF HEL "TBA" Debut CD
NECRONOCLAST "Haven" CD
GODLESS RISING "Trumpet Of Triumph" CD
HIEMS "Worship Or Die" 2nd CD/LP
NADIWRATH "TBA" Debut CD
BLOOD CULT "TBA" 2nd CD
WINDHAM HELL "Window of Souls" CD Re-issue
AZRAEL "TBA" 5th CD/LP
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IN MEMORIUM "Lost to Antiquity" 2nd CD
WINTER OF APOKALYPSE "TBA" 2nd CD
INFERNAL LEGION "Spear of Longinus" 2nd CD
WIND OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS "Summoned by the shadows" MCD/LP
DRAUGAR "TBA" 3rd CD/LP
CREBAIN "TBA" Debut CD/LP
APOSTOLUM "TBA" 2nd CD
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