After being temporarily off the listeners' radars, Russian melodic heavy metallers Descenery are back with their debut LP, "Stillborn Monolith", which was self-released on July 1st, 2017.

The band's debut offers a combination of heavy and melodic death metal, presenting also elements from other genres. "Stillborn Monolith" features a number of guests not only from Russia but also from Sweden, Poland, UK, Italy, Australia, USA and Portugal. The complete list is as follows:
 
- Dag Swano (Nightingale);
- Ragnar Widerberg (Witherscape, ShadowQuest);
- Mick Armstrong (Atma Weapon);
- Sebastian Nadjer (HellHaven);
- Anastasia Mescheryakova (Mescheryakova, ex-Gospel Tramp);
- Igor Plotnikov (The World Within);
- Dario Guarino (Aged Teen, Nameless Crime)
- Emily Highfield (Suldusk);
- Phil Romeo (Countless Skies);
- Stephan Kobiakin (Finding Sanity, ex-Summoned Hell, ex-A Dream Of Poe).
 
Daria Kirianova is responsible for the artwork, and the lyrics for one of the tracks («A Man, Anew») were written by Amari Satsu from Khabarovsk.
           
Mikhail Myshalov, who is mostly known for his cooperation with Sergei Tabachnikov, did the mixing and mastering.

Portuguese black metal cult Ordem Satânica are streaming the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Monte da Lua, at Decibel magazine's website. Set for international release today via Signal Rex, hear Ordem Satânica's Monte da  Lua in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Hailing from the rawest core of the thriving Portuguese black metal scene, Ordem Satânica are possessed by a hideous grimness that's utterly hypnotizing. Despite not belonging to Portugal's Black Circle (Mons Veneris, Vetala, Irae), Ordem Satânica's sound is comparably chaotic and necrotic, bleary and blown-out. And yet, the trio possess a deceptive sense of melody, malformed and miasmic, dissonant and distressed, that favourably reminds of France's immortal Black Legions from the dark days of the 1990s. For verily, this BLACK METAL from an ancient time - AGAINST the modern world, and against the modern "black metal" scene.

To date, Ordem Satânica have built a coveted canon of thoroughly underground works, each more challenging and cantankerous than the last. Just earlier this year, this enviable escalation of aesthetic antagonization reached its apotheosis with Signal Rex's release of the In Aeterna Crudelitate cassette - like the old ways/days, limited to only 66 copies and selling out almost immediately. But alas, Ordem Satânica transcend all prior with Monte da Lua, the most mesmerizing distillation of their crude-yet-cultivated art. Stripped completely bare and blown out in an almost brittle manner, Monte da Lua is a windswept travail across desolation and disgust, ever inwards and maybe even backwards. Modernity doesn't exist here; there is only the past, which passed before it began. Time stands still here, and the listener is powerless against Ordem Satânica's evocations of a better/worse world.

When there are still revisionist reveries for the early '90s boom of black metal, which inevitably died a slow death, there are bands in this millennium who harness that very real, very primordial power, and the raw Portuguese scene is currently at the forefront. Ordem Satânica carry the torch - have you been burned yet? Feel the total burn exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. 

Into The Limelight Records are very proud to announce the signing of Heylel from Portugal.

Born in the fall of 2012, Heylel are a progressive rock band from Porto, Portugal. The band combines influences ranging from classic to hard and even symphonic rock, with a very personal touch. The outcome is a dark, atmospheric and involving sound, gracefully combined with the beautiful voice of Ana Batista.

In 2014 the band released its debut album "Nebulae" and caught the attention of international progressive and rock press:

In September 2015 their second effort "Flesh" established the band in the international alternative rock scene.

Shades of Time (2017) will be the first album to feature the new five piece line up. Release by Into The Limelight Records this will be an album to look forward to. Set your watch; time is nearly here! 

Release date: Friday 30 June 2017
Heylel is: Ana Batista - Vocals  
Narciso Monteiro - Guitars, keyboards
Ricardo Teixeira - Drums
João Amorim - Bass
Ana Clérigo - Violin

Iron Bonehead Productions has sets June 30th as the international release date for the debut EP of Portugal's Summon, Aesthetics of Demise, on cassette tape format. A brand-new entity, Summon emerged in late 2016 as a gathering between N. and R. in which they decided to follow a sonority that transcends their soul and where they could give it a more cavernous feel, with an intensity of deep agony. Shortly thereafter, N. decides to move forward with composite themes, and then they decide to call J. to seal the covenant of a deadly entity. The lyrics are handled by N. in which he invokes all the blackness and splendour of death, the burden of enduring and wandering in a world of human flesh, and the infinite thirst for mass slaughter converting mankind into a cloak of bones.

Together, the hooded ghouls of Summon create a swirling, sulphurous mass of molten death-doom. The title Aesthetics of Demise is truly fitting: each tone and texture is buried under miles of human ash, the howls from underneath this abyss obscured yet further. So cavernous is Summon's miasma, even the uptempo segments across the EP feel like time slowed down and stretched apart. It's a diabolical disconnect that helps Aesthetics of Demise transcend the usual "sepulchral death metal" tropes, as the trio's songwriting is more a form of smashed-psyche sorcery. And yet, this is only the beginning for Portugal's Summon... "Death is our guide, and we are his scythe..." Be guided to Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud, where the new track "Sacred Pestilence" can be heard HERE.

On April 20th, Signal Rex - in conspiracy with Chaosphere Recordings, Larvae, Murder Records, Helldprod, Raging Planet, and Vomit Your Shirt - is proud to present the long-awaited debut album of Goldenpyre, In Eminent Disgrace. Web-portal NoCleanSinging.com is streaming the album in its entirety exclusively HERE.
 
Goldenpyre was created in Barroselas, Portugal in 1997. Their first demo, Apocryphal, was released in 1998 and the second one, Necroterrorism, in 2001. Their first EP, Decrepidemic, was recorded in 2003, followed by the split CD Atrocities in 2005.
 
In between the releases, Goldenpyre played about 100 shows and tours all around Europe with Suffocation, Behemoth, Nile, Destroyer 666, and various other bands. Their debut album was planned for 2009, but just few months after the recordings, new vocalist Jarder died and the band entered into a big hiatus.

When the time was right, the songs started to take shape in the studio and the release was re-planned for 2017 at the 20th edition of SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST. Six of the best labels in Portugal joined their hands and prepared one of the most anticipated releases in a long time: mysteriously lumbering, suffocatingly dense death metal of total DREAD. This is Goldenpyre's In Eminent Disgrace.

Now, in the lead-up to its release, stream the album in its entirety HERE.

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Execration Diatribes, the new album from Portuguese DM trio Pestifer is out now on Lavadome Productions. Stream and / or purchase the album at the following link:
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/execration-diatribes

The band has also released a new lyric video for album cut "Brutal Eruption of Chaos." Check it out at this location.

Lavadome productions are proud to announce another outburst of massive Death Metal destruction in the form of Execration Diatribes, the debut album from Pestifer. The album contains nine raging compositions of the finest Death Metal havoc. 

The legacy of albums like Hell Awaits, Morbid Visions, I.N.R.I., Black Force Domain has been channelled through Execration Diatribes in the purest form and at ultimate intensity.

Death Metal has been waiting for an album like Pestifer's Execration Diatribes since the beginning of the century. The wait is almost over. Wrathful legions of the apocalypse will rise again and destroy!

Lavadome has made available a specially priced CD bundle containing both Execration Diatribes and Epoch's Sacrosanct. Visit the Lavadome Store to purchase it and / or many other fine metal releases.

PESTIFER is:
Pedro Silva - Guitars and Vocals
Jorge Marinho - Bass
Diogo Pereira - Drums

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Portuguese DM trio Pestifer have joined forces with Decibel Magazine for the exclusive premiere of forthcoming album Execration Diatribes. Death comes streaming at:
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/6/full-album-stream-pestifer-execration-diatribes


Lavadome productions are proud to announce another outburst of massive Death Metal destruction in the form of Execration Diatribes, the debut album from Pestifer. The album contains nine raging compositions of the finest Death Metal havoc and will be released on February 14, 2016. New song "Mars Exult" is now streaming at the following location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UJqmOHKS7A

Pre-Orders: https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/execration-diatribes

The legacy of albums like Hell Awaits, Morbid Visions, I.N.R.I., Black Force Domain has been channelled through Execration Diatribes in the purest form and at ultimate intensity.

Death Metal has been waiting for an album like Pestifer's Execration Diatribes since the beginning of the century. The wait is almost over. Wrathful legions of the apocalypse will rise again and destroy!

PESTIFER is:

Pedro Silva - Guitars and Vocals
Jorge Marinho - Bass
Diogo Pereira - Drums

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Portuguese black metal cult Black Cilice have premiered the new track "Channeling Forgotten Energies" at Decibel magazine's website. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated fourth album, Banished From Time, set for international release on March 10th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Black Cilice's "Channeling Forgotten Energies" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Truly embodying the definition of "underground," Black Cilice lurked in the shadows its first five years - or perhaps even longer, as the one-man band's history is as mysterious as he is elusive - releasing a slew of demos and splits, all eventually culminating in two impossibly-rare albums. But then, in 2015, the mysterious mainman joined forces with Iron Bonehead to release the monolithic Mysteries. The album would go on to be hailed far and wide, and often from corners of the cultural landscape not usually acclimated to things of a resolutely raw nature: truly, Black Cilice was being celebrated for his content and vision alone rather than more socialistic aspects of the hype machine.
 
But "being celebrated" and "hype" are forever far from the Black Cilice world-view, and with this armament comes Banished From Time. Like its three full-length predecessors, Banished From Time is characteristically Black Cilice to the bone: a wave of in-the-red rawness greets the wary listener, surging second-wave black metal to the bone, but underneath those layers of filth 'n' fatalism lies a melancholic majesty that's truly a splendour to behold. Just like its predecessors, some could even qualify Banished From Time as "beautiful" - if that beauty was be-spoiled for centuries in a cold, cobwebbed castle. Intractably black metal, once again, we find here that "purism" need not be shorthand for a dearth of ideas: Black Cilice twists the anachronisms of classic black metal into ageless, endlessly spellbinding forms, each undulating wave lapping back against the other to utterly hypnotizing effect.
 
Yet, Banished From Time breaks a bit from the established Black Cilice canon, if more so thematically. Whereas Mysteries ended a three-album trilogy, Banished From Time is meant as a disruptive album whilst keeping the intractable, idiosyncratic identity of the Black Cilice sound. We can point to the overall production, which is thicker and less strident, and the voice, in kind, has become more "present" and aggressive. But these are all simply signposts for the spiritual /metaphysical state presented in Banished From Time: Black Cilice living physically in the present but not belonging to the present, living in the past (amidst ruins, surrounded by spirits) but not belonging to the past. As usual, the lyrics focus on paranormal experiences, the borderline between the living and the dead and channelling spirits in long forgotten ruins, apart from the world.
 
Fitting for such a momentous work, Banished From Time will be released on the usual vinyl LP and cassette tape formats but also CD. Be Banished From Time and die another death with Black Cilice! The next death can be experienced exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. The first death begins with the album's opening track, which can be heard exclusively at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud HERE.

Portuguese progressive death metallers Destroyers Of All proudly presents their brand new video for the track "Tormento", a song that represents a fearless combination of Metal with unique elements from the Portuguese culture like Fado de Coimbra.

The video - which was directed by Guilherme Henriques, known for his work with Belphegor -, can be seen at this location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCItjoqcyc

"Tormento" is the second single extracted from the album "Bleak Fragments", released on early 2016 by Mosher Records.

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Appalling Ascension, the tumultuous debut album by Portuguese death metal sect The Ominous Circle, will see a cooperative release through Osmose Productions and 20 Buck Spin this Friday, January 27th. On the verge of its public infiltration, the entire album has been unleashed through an exclusive stream hosted by Noisey.
 
With the early stream, Noisey offers of the album, "Throughout its eight tracks, Appalling Ascension devotes its time to roiling riffs, apocalyptic percussion, an impossibly heavy low end, and echoing growls-classic modern dark death metal, really, with perhaps even more of a ghoulish doom edge and some truly nasty guitar work. Unlike many of its cave-dwelling peers, the band obviously pours real effort in crafting songs, not just song fragments sandwiched between swaths of spooky atmosphere..."

The first onstage ceremonies for The Ominous Circle have been initiated, the band having made their live debut in November 2016, with more live actions being slated for 2017.
 
THE OMINOUS CIRCLE live:
5/27/2017 RCA Club - Lisbon, PT w/ Asphyx

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