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Artist: Myrkur Label: Relapse

Artist: WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Label: Artemisia

Artist: SANNHET Label: Profound Lore

Artist: Myrkur Label: Relapse

Norwegian Black Metallers GRAVDAL have signed to Soulseller Records! The band’s new and third full-length album “Kadaverin” will be released on 11th August 2017 in different formats (CD, vinyl, digital). “Kadaverin” was recorded and mixed in Mackwerk studio by Lord Bård and mastered by Herbrand Larsen at Conclave & Earshot studios. It features guest appearances from members of Satyricon, Taake, SAHG, The Ruins Of Beverast, Seven Impale and Orkan and lyrics written by V`gandr (Helheim, Taake) Record Label: Soulseller Records Style: Black Metal

Artist: Progenie Terrestre Pura Label: AVANTGARDE

Artist: Reverorum Ib Malacht Label: AJNA OFFENSIVE

Artist: Eoront Label: Code666

Finally the long-awaited debut album by norwegian black metal band Order is here! Formed by members of the old norwegian's scene pioneers Manheim (ex-Mayhem), Billy Messiah (ex-Mayhem/Cockroach Clan), Anders Odden (Gluecifer) and Rene Jansen (Cadaver), the intention of Order is to revive pure fucking armaggeddon Record Label: Listenable Records Style: Black Metal

Rather than become the bazillionth utterance of its Swedish forebears' ideas, Omnizide attempts to tap straight into the primal, molten veins of what made the cruder death metal of the 90s so important to begin with. That's not to preclude this project of black metallers (Craft, Avsky, etc) from deriving a few riffing patterns here or there, but Death Metal Holocaust is clearly an album in which some investment of songwriting and variation occurred, and the result is that the guitars themselves and general atmosphere is noticeably catchier than what you're hearing from the majority of groups pursuing this path. There's nothing 'new' sounding about this debut, but it's appreciably abyssal, nihilistic, and wretched, with no apologies for its ugliness, or for giving the retro death metal aesthetic what it might need...a hellish injection of black metal misanthropy. This is felt primarily in the harshness of the vocals, which forsakes a bit of the usual guttural depth for a more malicious, uncaring pitch that borders on the traditional Scandinavian rasp associated with a lot of second wave black metal bands. I'm reminded somewhat of their countrymen Nifelheim, which is no surprise because Omnizide has a similar spin on archaic extreme metal abuse not unlike Hellbutcher's side project Necrocurse which has been around for a few years. Nuclear wind-blown, dense tremolo picked guitars cross a bleak landscape of bone and ash, once in awhile coming up with a riff that actually sticks to the brain, something nearly impossible for so much of the death and black metal I'm hearing lately. But the real treat is that they'll mix these components up with slower, black/doom passages that really round out the record's capacity for atmospheric immersion. Typical Swedish death techniques like d-beats are included enough that Death Metal Holocaust remains in view of all the other bands exploring this skull-paved path down memory lane, but Omnizide maintain that pervasive sense of 'evil' that transcends a collection of safe riffs into more of an 'experience'. That's not to say it's perfectly penned and executed, because there are definitely a number of chord patterns here that don't live up to the rest, in particular when they're playing in more of a Hellhammer/mid-paced Bathory mold it can get a little dull. Fortunately, they mix up the speeds often enough that it never becomes all that much of a detriment. Also, though they're slathered with a number of sustained, gory growls, Michael Nox's vocal pitch here can become as monotonous as an endless gray waste, in which the listener has only a limited range of visibility; whereas I often wanted the guy to go completely batshit and apply maybe a few more higher pitched ugly screams or other techniques to really go mental. That said, for some listeners, this will be a critical part of the record's charms...like Craft, the aim here is to compose simplistic, sinister and serious sounding tunes that leech the very color from the listener's immediate environment, and it's another record which 100% lives up to sounding like the cover artwork looks. Grim, ghastly old school death and black metal for fans of anything from Nihilist and Dismember to Craft and Pest. The album also does include the two cuts from the 2011 Please from Death single, which are slightly blacker sounding, but help flesh out Holocaust to a 40+ minute fallout, a breath of cinders, soot and hatred that, for a spell, rubs out the sunlight. Charcoal fucking metal Record Label: Sound Pollution / Carnal Records Style: Metal

The “Sfaira Tis Fotias” EP with the occult black metal band Mephorash from Uppsala, Sweden will be re-released through Shadow Records on June 29. The band hat due to deep dedication of studying and practicing in the dark spiritual paradigms deliver a pure and raw take on the old black metal sound with a mighty touch of esoteric/religious elements to create something new. Something that breaks the barriers of what this scene is to this day. Mephorash - Sfaira Tis Fotias - bandphoto The band consists mainly of Mishbar Bovmeph (Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals and main composer) and Mashkelah Mr’ralaa (Lead Vocals, Lyricwriter) and has also gotten the great honour of welcoming Nebiros (Fd. Ofermod, Malign) also on Vocals. This is the re-release of the original 2 track EP (2015) with bonus material and new layouts. Out on CD and Vinyl. Tracklist: 1. Sfaira Tis Fotias (8:57) 2. The Hendecasyllabics Of Death (6:43) 3. Khabs Am Peklit (4:57) Record Label: Regain Style: Metal

Finally the long-awaited debut album by norwegian black metal band Order is here! Formed by members of the old norwegian's scene pioneers Manheim (ex-Mayhem), Billy Messiah (ex-Mayhem/Cockroach Clan), Anders Odden (Gluecifer) and Rene Jansen (Cadaver), the intention of Order is to revive pure fucking armaggeddon Record Label: Listenable Records Style: Black Metal

The Scandinavian Occult Black Metallians GRAFVITNIR release their fourth album via Carnal Records and Daemon Worship Productions. The album was mastered by Devo Andersson at the Endarker Studio in Sweden. The artwork comes from Chadwick St. John. Finest Melodic Black Metal, warmly recommended for fans of Witchcraft, Occultism, Luciferianism and Transcendence. Record Label: Sound Pollution / Carnal Records Style: Metal

REISSUE ON WHITE/BLUE 180G VINYL! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY! 3mm SLEEVE INCL. INLAY After being sold out for a couple of years finally their stunning debut "Der Weg Einer Freigeit - st/, and their second break through album "Unstille" are being release on vinyl again with an alternate layout, 180 g colored vinyl and limited to total of only 500 copies each. Easily 40.000 records sold. Sold out european tours - appearances at the most important festivals such as Wacken, Roadburn, Summer Breeze, Hellfest and many more. Influencers of metal such as "Mille Kreator" and even Hip Hop superstars such as Germany's Casper call them the most important german Black Metal band with no sign of ever losing it's quality and uniqueness. Der Weg Einer Freiheit is with no doubt the most popular and success german black metal outfit being around. Record Label: Vivahate Style: Metal

REISSUE ON BLACK/BLUE 180G VINYL! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY! 3mm SLEEVE INCL. INLAY After being sold out for a couple of years finally their stunning debut "Der Weg Einer Freigeit - st/, and their second break through album "Unstille" are being release on vinyl again with an alternate layout, 180 g colored vinyl and limited to total of only 500 copies each. Easily 40.000 records sold. Sold out european tours - appearances at the most important festivals such as Wacken, Roadburn, Summer Breeze, Hellfest and many more. Influencers of metal such as "Mille Kreator" and even Hip Hop superstars such as Germany's Casper call them the most important german Black Metal band with no sign of ever losing it's quality and uniqueness. Der Weg Einer Freiheit is with no doubt the most popular and success german black metal outfit being around. Record Label: Vivahate Style: Metal

REISSUE ON WHITE/BLUE 180G VINYL! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY! RE-MASTERED! After being sold out for a couple of years finally their stunning debut "Der Weg Einer Freigeit - st/, and their second break through album "Unstille" are being release on vinyl again with an alternate layout, 180 g colored vinyl and limited to total of only 500 copies each. The s/t album is being released as re-mastered version. Easily 40.000 records sold. Sold out european tours - appearances at the most important festivals such as Wacken, Roadburn, Summer Breeze, Hellfest and many more. Influencers of metal such as "Mille Kreator" and even Hip Hop superstars such as Germany's Casper call them the most important german Black Metal band with no sign of ever losing it's quality and uniqueness. Der Weg Einer Freiheit is with no doubt the most popular and success german black metal outfit being around. Record Label: Vivahate Style: Metal

REISSUE ON BLACK/BLUE 180G VINYL! LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY! RE-MASTERED! After being sold out for a couple of years finally their stunning debut "Der Weg Einer Freigeit - st/, and their second break through album "Unstille" are being release on vinyl again with an alternate layout, 180 g colored vinyl and limited to total of only 500 copies each. The s/t album is being released as re-mastered version. Easily 40.000 records sold. Sold out european tours - appearances at the most important festivals such as Wacken, Roadburn, Summer Breeze, Hellfest and many more. Influencers of metal such as "Mille Kreator" and even Hip Hop superstars such as Germany's Casper call them the most important german Black Metal band with no sign of ever losing it's quality and uniqueness. Der Weg Einer Freiheit is with no doubt the most popular and success german black metal outfit being around. Record Label: Vivahate Style: Metal

Record Label: Prophecy Productions Style: Metal

LP (gold 180g-Vinyl) incl. printed inner sleeve and protection sleeve (150 copies available). At the same time as Sun Of The Sleepless' first full-length album, "To The Elements", the vinyl compilation "Shadows Of The Past" will be released on black and strictly limited gold vinyl. "Shadows Of The Past" features all SOTS recordings from 1998-2004 - "Poems To The Wretches Hearts" (1999), "Tausend Kalte Winter" (2000) as well as the tracks of the split EP with Nachtmahr (2004) - which have been remastered especially for this release. Record Label: Prophecy Productions Style: Metal

The tale of Necromandus always deserved a happy ending. Circa 1972-73 this fast-rising Cumbrian quartet found themselves under the managerial wing of Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, recording a debut for the hip Vertigo imprint. Sadly, and suddenly, the band fell apart, and the Necromandus recordings remained lost and forgotten for 20 years. Rediscovered and bootlegged in the 1990s, by the time their ‘Orexis Of Death’ debut was officially reissued in 2010 three-quarters of the band - guitarist Barry Dunnery, vocalist Bill Branch and bassist Dennis McCarten - had died, leaving drummer Frank Hall as the sole surviving custodian of the band’s legacy. And Frank was determined that Necromandus should rise again. Soon after came what Frank calls “the epiphany”. Necromandus’ new keyboardist John Marcangelo - who played with Barry Dunnery in the mid-late 1970s - found rehearsal tapes of unfinished songs featuring Baz’s guitar, which they were able to incorporate into these new recordings. This posthumous collaboration is not the only instance of supernatural time-warping on this self-titled second Necromandus album: vocalist John Branch is the son of Bill, the band’s original singer. “When I heard his first take, it was just like his dad singing,” recalls Frank. “I started to well up, it was really emotional. One of those moments.” You can hear those ideas flowing throughout every minute of ‘Necromandus’. As with the elegant dynamics of the debut, this band’s ethos is still one of experimentation and versatility, with progressive hard rockers from the band’s earliest days like ‘I’ve Been Evil’, ‘Don’t Look Down Frank’ and ‘Limpert Man’ fitting seamlessly alongside extraordinary new full-band collaborations like ‘Hymn To Her’, ‘Alauna’ and ‘Hardknott’. 44 years after their thwarted heyday, Necromandus channel a compelling blend of ancient and modern energies, capturing the creative restlessness that made their early work so magical while adding vital new moods and textures. “I didn’t want to do a boring, straight-on rocking, punch-in-the-face-then-it’s-forgotten album. I want these songs to remain, to be remembered,” Frank emphasises. “I wanted to put so many colours in there. I’ve got a group of artists around me, a canvas in front of me and a big palette of colours, and I’m not gonna waste them.” Record Label: Mandus Music Style: Black Metal