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Shining the latest album from Swallow the Sun, encapsulates the profound duality of the human experience and the band's enduring brilliance. The album explores the intrinsic challenges of being human, contrasting the beauty and purity within individuals with the transformation that occurs when we come together, chasing us away from innocence like rats from Eden. It highlights the struggle and disillusionment in human interactions.

Marking 23 years of their musical progression, Shining also symbolizes the band's pride and resilience, showcasing their brightest and strongest work to date. This album is a testament to Swallow the Sun's artistic legacy, intertwining existential reflections with their characteristic majestic sound.

New England extreme metal powerhouse, Escuela Grind, will release its new LP, 'Dreams on Algorithms', on October 18 via MNRK Heavy. Recorded at Salem, Massachusetts' GodCity studio with producer Kurt Ballou, and mastered by Nick Townsend (Dr. Dre, Betty Davis) the record is the highly anticipated follow-up to Escuela Grind's celebrated 2022 full-length debut, 'Memory Theater', a recording hailed as "an opus of extremity" by The New York Times.Escuela Grind’s journey through the punishing sonic landscape of Grindcore has been anything but status quo. Their mantra of promoting inclusivity and acceptance within extreme music communities stands as a pillar of progression in an often gate-kept and closed-minded subculture. Vocalist Katerina Economou spreads the band’s spirit and core beliefs on every stage they touch – amplifying the voices of the underrepresented and connecting people on a level deeper than the music.Dreams on Algorithms is a sonic testament to the band’s ideologies – a bludgeoning display of progressive extreme metal that steps outside of genre boundaries.

Comdemned to Suffer was recorded in Croydon UK and mixed by London-based Tide Music Studios. This is our 3rd album, the most personal so far, as no guest musicians participated during recording and lyrics are more mature and complex, mostly reflecting different struggles that we’ve overcomed in the past 5 years as a band. In the melodic death metal genre, we like to add black metal elements to the mix as well to make the music sound a bit darker and intense. We’ve been influenced mostly by death metal pioneers from 90’s but there are also modern elements in our music. We were influenced by the bands like The Carcass, At the Gates and Dissection, so our music can be described as ‘similar’ to these bands with a pinch of modern elements on top. We put great emphasis on this album and worked really hard to make it sound profound and we believe this is the most mature album that we’ve released so far.

In the vein of AT THE GATES, DISSECTION & CARCASS

Little Weight is the follow up to 2022's Perfect Light and sees Patrick Walker take a different approach to writing and recording.
Whilst Perfect Light was written and recorded over a long time period, with a wide cast of musicians, for Little Weight Patrick was determined to simplify the record-making process and recapture more of the rawness and spontaneity of the band’s earliest recordings. Setting aside a designated amount of time, under specific - often isolated - conditions, the crafting of the songs that make up Little Weight took place.
A pre-planned series of retreats provided the space and opportunities to focus, within which Walker and his collaborators - drummer Andrew Prestidge and bassist Roland Scriver - were able to do their best work. Designated time to work without distraction allowed them absolute freedom to create, whilst deadlines added to the urgency of the final recordings captured at Holy Mountain Studios in London in December 2023. Engineering and mixing was undertaken by Chris Fullard (Sunn O))); IDLES; Ulver), who was assisted by Stanley Gravett, before Adam Gonsalves mastered the tracks in Portland, Oregon. The album's cover art is by Tekla Vály. Commenting on the writing process Walker says: “The conditions I created to make this record - without too much extraneous, unnecessary back and forth - means that what we recorded here have an added nearness to the first emotions that I first wanted to express and which inspired me to sit down to write; things often lost over time and usually difficult to recapture.”
Whilst he remains unwilling to be drawn to discussing the specifics of his songs, 40 Watt Sun has once again produced a collection of vignettes that are steeped in poetic beauty, longing, love, and melancholy nostalgia.

Comatose Music and Logic of Denial proudly presents the all new full length ‘Aftermath’. This is the third album by these Italian miscreants, further expanding the sonic exploration crafted in their previous 2013 effort ‘Atonement’ with a more diverse, brutal and complex approach. Conceived as a three chapter concept album about the various stages during the grieving process, ‘Aftermath’ contains twelve vicious tracks which conceptually probe the resentment consistent with the incessant and infamous vilification of human vulnerability. Fast and technical brutal death metal with guttural vocals and superb production.  

Incinerate have returned with their long-awaited new album, ‘Sacrilegivm’! This is the sound of eternal war - no mercy, no peace, no surrender - only implacable hatred and limitless violence ‘til the end of time and beyond. Unfathomable brutality, technical complexity and the wild, dark magic of classic death metal entwine throughout eleven tracks that together deliver an unforgiving master class in musical extremity. The sirens are howling, the trumpets have been blown and on October 9th, ‘Sacrilegivm’ will be unleashed!

Lóstregos was brought into the light in 2014 with the intention of promoting awareness and keeping alive the flame of Galician Folklore, its tales and the hidden knowledge that lies within them, all under the banner of black metal mixed with epic features with a intimate approach that drags the listener to landscapes where the ancient ones and their cult remains unbroken and pristine.
Their third record “Nai” features a mystic cover artwork by David Thierré. “Nai” is defined by the band as a singular point of balance between light and darkness. It’s an introspective and conceptual journey across the primordial elements led by the endless coil, without forgetting about the main focus of the band on Galician Folklore.

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“Magma Transmigration” is the fifth opus by mysterious romanian outfit CURSED CEMETERY.
Once again, the trio decides to explore spiritualism, darkness and oriental mysticism through the means of doom metal with a black metal approach in vocals (very often dissonant and experimental). Four long compositions made of different segments will guide you through an inner voyage musically bilance between funeral doom, psychedelia and extreme music. Be prepared for a 54 minutes astonishing long ride!

Cursed Cemetery hail from Timisoara. They formed back in 1997 and since then, they released four records, the most notable in 2022, “A Forgotten Epitaph”. Standing apart from the crowded social media and commercial spotlights, they suddenly appear every now and then to bring forth their musical vision made of spirit, darkness and flesh.

Frostmoon Eclipse, one of the oldest Black Metal entities from Italy are celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2024 and what better way to celebrate three decades of darkness then to relive the days of old? For this special occasion we excavated their back catalogue and breathe new life into their first four full length albums through a remastering of the old works and repacking each album in brand new artwork, to be released each on Vinyl for the very first time and together in an exclusive 4disc CD boxset.

Guitarists Magnus Danneblad and Anders Karlsson, bass player Magnus Van Wassenaar and drummer Tommy Johansson started out as Purple Haze in Linköping in 1981. When singer Christer Göransson joined towards the end of the year, they soon changed their name to Genocide and supported local metal heroes Axewitch. A final name change was to follow: In April 1983 Mindless Sinner recorded a five-track demo entitled »Master Of Evil«. This attracted Swedish label Fingerprint Records, and they in turn released the NWOBHM-inspired material as a mini-album. This was followed by the first full-length effort »Turn On The Power« in 1986. The band then signed to Delta Records, suffered several line-up changes and continued as Mindless, finally calling it quits in 1990 after having released the »Missing Pieces« album.

Guitarists Magnus Danneblad and Anders Karlsson, bass player Magnus Van Wassenaar and drummer Tommy Johansson started out as Purple Haze in Linköping in 1981. When singer Christer Göransson joined towards the end of the year, they soon changed their name to Genocide and supported local metal heroes Axewitch. A final name change was to follow: In April 1983 Mindless Sinner recorded a five-track demo entitled »Master Of Evil«. This attracted Swedish label Fingerprint Records, and they in turn released the NWOBHM-inspired material as a mini-album. This was followed by the first full-length effort »Turn On The Power« in 1986. The band then signed to Delta Records, suffered several line-up changes and continued as Mindless, finally calling it quits in 1990 after having released the »Missing Pieces« album.

Lord of Plague’s debut demo, Passage to None, features three tracks of blistering Death Metal madness in the vein of Cenotaph, Monstrosity, and Morbid Angel! Passage to None was self-recorded by the band, with Mixing and mastering handled by Andrew Oswald (Mortiferum, Triumvir Foul). Original cover artwork by Joshua Porter and additional inner artwork by Rohhalusmu