August 17, 2010 - Lebanese madmen AYAT "Carry On Carrion" - Lebanon's infamous AYAT - whose 2008 MORIBUND-released album, Six Years of Dormant Hatred, strictly polarized critics as either "genius" or "garbage" but forcing an opinion out of everyone - reveal that they're currently recording their follow-up MORIBUND album, tentatively titled Carry On Carrion. As vocalist Filthy Fuck explains, "So I walked. And the 67 viral winds of the East whistled in my hollow bones, particles of disease sticking on the edges. And William died on me, too. A fever runs through my blood like rivers to the sea. Six years of dormant hatred lay in pieces behind me and thousands of dead motherfuckers are walking around the thousand-times-dead fucking mother-city. And the dead exceed the living and will look after them in their own special way. And there was but one phrase on my tongue like a snake rolled on a shaft - 'Carry on, carrion... Carry on...'." The track listing to Carry On Carrion has already been decided by the band, but AYAT wish it to remain secret until release. Additionally, they promise that the new album shall be longer than 60 minutes and should be finished next month, with a late winter or early spring release through MORIBUND likely. When pressed for further details, Filthy Fuck simply shrugged and said, "Nothing but the fact that it will be longer, more insane, more vicious, and will shy Six Years... to a battered pulp. Not only by force, mind you, but also by sheer acidic caustic erosion. And we're Lebanese. In case some guy missed it." August 13, 2010 - MORIBUND announces North American release of THRALL's "AFTHOM" - MORIBUND RECORDS announces the North American release date of THRALL's debut album, Away From the Haunts of Men, as November 9th, 2010. Originally released overseas earlier this year by Total Holocaust Records, the North American edition of THRALL's Away From the Haunts of Men will include an exclusive bonus video for the track "Torrent of Death," which can be viewed in the meantime to the left & here: THRALL "Torrent Of Death" Video Comments the band, "THRALL are pleased to collaborate with the legendary MORIBUND CULT for the North American edition of our debut album, Away from the Haunts of Men. We strive to spread our contagious virulence to all mankind!" The band also details its aims here: ORIGINS: "THRALL is a Tasmanian black metal/doom band. You may ask, why does this matter? The howling gales of Antarctica have ironically sheltered large tracts of Tasmania from human habituation to this day. Since European settlement in 1803, the island's history has included the genocide of the Tasmanian aboriginals and cases of cannibalism among escaped convicts. THRALL is a product of this landscape, this history and no other." IDEALOGY: "Homosapiens are a plague mindlessly consuming the last of the Earth's resources; mass extinction/ecological cataclysm is upon us. THRALL's music howls a pro-void mantra advocating the post-human era. THRALL is an embodiment of the contradiction of being inherently human yet anti-human." MUSIC: "THRALL fuse the mid-paced blastbeats of old-school black metal with lush vacuum-tube-soaked guitars. THRALL's instrumentation is textured and diverse, from primal black metal songs to spacious doom epics and atmospheric soundscapes. Seemingly primitive music is partnered with high-end production values, whilst remaining bile-soaked and sincerely misanthropic." For more info, consult www.myspace.com/thrallofvoid and www.moribundcult.com. August 09, 2010 - SATAN'S HOST Enter Flatline Audio, record 9th album - Satanic metal warlords SATAN'S HOST are currently at Flatline Audio with legendary super-producer Dave Otero working on the bands ninth studio album, entitled By the Hands of the Devil, to be released next year by MORIBUND RECORDS. With the departure of vocalist Eli Elixir and the return of Leviathan Thisiren (AKA Harry Conklin, of JAG PANZER and Titan Force) into the SH grotto on vocals, the band has recently performed in Germany for the Keep True Festival in April 2010, and have done some local Colorado shows to prepare for the new album. Founding six-string sorcerer Patrick Evil, with his cornucopia of uber-evil riffs, has been at the top of his game with all-new tracks that will devour the weak at heart and those who try to dismiss this true metal virtuoso. Anthony "Evil Hobbit" Lopez, making his second appearance on the drums of doom, has taken the groove to a new hellish high, and with the addition of Margar on dass, SATAN'S HOST have taken their musical journey to new, darker realms with deeper and broader themes and lyrical content. Adds Patrick Evil, "I think this will be our greatest album to date. Our ninth release for our 25th aniversary - how much better can it get than that?" Prepare for a revival of the primal!!! For more info, consult: www.myspace.com/satanshost www.satanshost.com www.youtube.com/satanshost418 www.moribundcult.com August 05, 2010 - SARGEIST release date for long-awaited new album - MORIBUND RECORDS confirms November 9th, 2010 as the release date for SARGEIST's long-awaited new album, Let the Devil In. Dedicated MORIBUND terrorists right from the start, SARGEIST's last full-length album was 2005's critically acclaimed Disciple of the Heinous Path, preceded by their classic Satanic Black Devotion debut in 2003. Featuring vocalist Torog and drummer Horns of cult Finnish horde BEHEXEN as well as the six-string sorcery of HORNA mastermind Shatraug, here on their third album SARGEIST display that black metalled orthodoxy need not spell creative death, that occult mysticism is still ripe for exploration if the words match the deeds – and especially if you have the songs to back them up. One anthem to the horned one after another, Let the Devil In masterfully balances raw, bloodcurdling passion with poised, steely-eyed professionalism: a new classic of traditional black metal is born! Says Shatraug regarding the imminent release of Let the Devil In, "The forthcoming SARGEIST album took us more than five years to make. After two albums, the standard we had raised was needed to be met with a liturgy surpassing the previous works, and for that reason alone, it took such a long time to complete the new work. Finally, when everything started to fall in place, it didn't take long. Lyrically, Let the Devil In is a continuation of the heinous path we had chosen - that of black magic, necromancy, and worship of Satan. The result is definitely the strongest of SARGEIST yet, taking all the assets of our past with a new Satanic illumination." track listing- I - Empire of Suffering II - A Spell to Awaken the Temple III - From the Black Coffin Lair IV - Burning Voice of Adoration V - Nocturnal Revelation VI - Discovering the Enshrouded Eye VII - Let the Devil In VIII - Sanguine Rituals IX - Twilight Breath of Satan X - As Darkness Tears the World Apart In other SARGEIST news, the band will have a split 7" with DROWNING THE LIGHT released by MORIBUND on September 28th, 2010. For more info, consult www.moribundcult.com. July 20, 2010 - HAERESIARCHS OF DIS sign with MORIBUND RECORDS, prepare label debut - MORIBUND RECORDS announces the signing of HAERESIARCHS OF DIS. HAERESIARCHS OF DIS is a one-man black metal project currently residing in the woods of Lexington Hills, California. Formed by Cernunnos, the band produces underground black metal bearing avant-garde, ambient, and melodic elements. Imagery and lyrical content are derived from misanthropic and anti-Christian ideologies with undercurrents of Indo-European mythology. The band has three releases to date including the debut full -ength Overture [2008], the Dis mini-CD [2010] of reissued older material - both on label Toadstool Enterprises - and the soon to be released second full-length Denuntiatus Cinis, set for release on October 12th through MORIBUND RECORDS. At once cacophonous and orchestral, dissonant and magisterial, raging one minute and reposed the next, amorphous yet firmly defined: HAERESIARCHS OF DIS's Denuntiatis Cinis is an epic, envelope-pushing exploration of black metal aesthetics. The mysterious entity's MORIBUND debut, Denuntiatis Cinis takes black metal down complex corridors, each turn more twisted than the next, challenging the listener's perceptions of what "black metal" can comprise whilst ignoring the rulebook altogether. Forget "post-black metal" – remember HAERESIARCHS OF DIS. The full track listing for HAERESIARCHS OF DIS' Denuntiatus Cinis is as follows: 1) Entry 2) Intent the Proem 3) The Respite 4) Intent Canticle 5) Intent the Augury 6) Bemoan the Fallen 7) Median Existere 8) Nine Days They Fell 9) Intent Concupiscence 10) Ad Baculum 11) Intent the Succedaneum 12) Passage 13) Intent Postremo Enclosure Orsorum 14) Exeunt For more info, consult www.toadstoolcomics.com/dis, www.myspace.com/haeresiarchsofdis, and www.moribundcult.com July 13, 2010 - Michigan thrash institution NOCTURNAL FEAR studio report - Michigan thrash institution NOCTURNAL FEAR check in with the following studio report for forthcoming album Excessive Cruelty: "We look forward to recording our next assault this winter," according to NF mastermind Chris Slavehunter. "This new shit will be our heaviest yet. I've begun a relationship with Engl amps outta Germany and received two prototype Powerball heads with my custom Vektor mod done to them by my guitar tech, and as always, I'll be playing my USA BC Rich Bich guitars custom modded to play extreme WAR METAL! As the number-one band supporting the US Armed Forces, I promise our new album, Excessive Cruelty, will cause massive collateral damage on a genocidal scale!" As previously reported, NOCTURNAL FEAR recently added new member Warmonger on bass. The band is rounded out by Devastator on vocals, Rev. Chris Slavehunter PhD on all guitars, and Aggressor on drums. A release date for NOCTURNAL FEAR's Excessive Cruelty will be announced later this year. In the meantime, consult www.myspace.com/nocturnalfear and www.moribundcult.com.