 Portuguese black metal titans Black Howling premiere the new track "Celestial Syntropy" at Decibel magazine's website. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated sixth album, Return of Primordial Stillness, set for international release on July 27th via Signal Rex. Hear Black Howling's "Celestial Syntropy" in its entirety exclusively HERE. One of the oldest and most prolific bands in the Portuguese black metal underground, Black Howling have built up a staggering body of work of unparalleled anguish and misery. By no means strictly "depressive suicidal black metal," the duo's aesthetic often runs parallel to DSBM but fortunately evades all the usual cliches of such. More importantly, Black Howling's commitment to an unapologetically raw sound-field yet suffusing that misery 'n' anguish with a remarkably accomplished melodicism has largely shaped the modern Portuguese black metal paradigm that has received so much international fervour in recent years. Now, after three years of silence, Black Howling return with Return of Primordial Stillness, a compact-yet-massive distillation of their enduring aesthetic. Comprising four tracks in an epic 40 minutes, Return of Primordial Stillness indeed sounds primordial and indeed invokes a crypt-like stillness, but there's so much more going on here. The record is bookended by two mostly instrumental tracks, with the two central compositions - "Celestial Syntropy" and "Celestial Entropy," which are 14 minutes and 16 minutes, respectively - canvassing a wide sonic landscape, howling and desperate and yet strangely triumphant and even perversely soothing, such is their catharsis sought. However, this is all BLACK METAL through and through, undiluted and uncompromising; it's just that Black Howling possess a profound understanding of it and are thusly able to shape it in dazzling(ly malodorous) ways. Simply put, if you aren't mesmerized by the conjuring's contained within, then perhaps black metal isn't for you...
Though their output has slowed in recent years, each Black Howling recording is a stained treasure unto itself. When their next recording shall reveal itself, no one knows but then, but hereby witness their Return of Primordial Stillness. In the meantime, hear the massive 14-minute "Celestial Syntropy" in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. Pre-order info can be found HERE. www.facebook.com/blackhowlingofficial www.signalrex.com www.facebook.com/signalrex www.signalrex.bandcamp.com
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 Welcome Okkultist! Portuguese Death Metal, straight to the point and vicious as if summoned from the depths of abysses and the ugly layers of Hell. Inspired by the likes of Master / Abomination, early Morbid Angel, Death and Dismember, Okkultist picks up where impure Nineties Death Metal left and are ready to unleash upon you their debut album “Reinventing Evil“, that will soon be released worldwide by Fernando Ribeiro’s (Moonspell) new record label Alma Mater Records! Okkultist formed back in late 2015. They started playing live and spreading their raw notion of evil Death Metal on October 15th 2016. In 2017 “Eye Of The Beholder”, the band’s debut EP was unleashed independently, but caught up and spread around Europe and overseas – selling out every single printed copy. Even at this early stage, Okkultist already had the honour to curse stages such as at Mosher Fest or Female Growler United Front in Portugal and as an opening act for legendary names such as Entombed AD. They now became the very first band to sign with Alma Mater Records, Moonspell’s singer Fernando Ribeiro record label, committed to showcase all around the world, with the promo partnership of All Noir and Rastilho, conjured in Portugal, Metal from the Navigator’s land. Stay tuned on the infernal vibes of this deadly raw and PURE FVCKING EVIL Portuguese talent! https://okkultist.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/okkultistband/ https://www.youtube.com/okkultistband https://www.instagram.com/okkultistband/ https://www.facebook.com/almamaterrecords/  AWS qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018 - vote for metal on saturday! AWS - a hard working, underground modern metal band did it again: after they won the local Eurovision Song Contest - with the support of the whole local scene from the major rock bands till’ the underground death metal fellows - they qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018. We would like to thank for all of your support so far! Every single post, encouraging word brought the boys one step closer to the success. A young, talented modern metal band coming from the depth of underground scene blasted the Eurovision stage yesterday and that is what we call magic. The magic of metal unity. Please help them with a share to make it happen! #voteformetal #voteforaws #metal #unity #esc2018 #eurovision So here’s the time to join our forces again! How to vote in the Grand Final? source: eurovision.tv/vote If you are in one of the 43 participating countries you can vote in the contest. After all songs have been performed, you can vote for your favourites for ±15 minutes. You can vote by telephone and SMS through the numbers shown on your screen, and via the official app. Rates and legal terms will be shown on screen. You can vote up to 20 times, but you cannot vote for the country you are voting from. Televotes make up 50% of the result, the other 50% are being determined by a professional jury in each participating country. The official Eurovision Song Contest app is your ultimate second screen tool during the live shows, available for your iOS, Android and Windows device. You'll get live information about the participants, shortlist your favourites and vote. After voting you get a special video message from your favourite contestant. The app also features the latest news, videos and backstage photo galleries, selfie filters and easy access to the songs.  AWS is unique not just because they are representing metal music and stage dives at ESC - also not afraid to shock the crowd - but presenting theirs song in Hungarian. All theirs behaviour is true to themselfs: pure feelings and acts from a nearly DIY band and a barefooted frontman. Please support the boys, support metal! ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Semi-Final, Lisbon) - bit.ly/2wAQSvq ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (english and acoustic versions) - bit.ly/2Ibhfxd ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (contest song and karaoke version) - bit.ly/2Ka410j www.facebook.com/awszenekar www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary www.facebook.com/EurovisionSongContest  Portuguese thrash metallers Rasgo have published a video for the track "Homens Ao Mar", which was recorded on March 7th with the "Circulo de Musica de Camara" Orchestra, directed by Pedro Teixeira Silva. "Homens Ao Mar" (translates into "men overboard"), showcases a band that is not afraid of exploring and creating a solid musical output, while showing their ability to musically adapt to different environments. This track is, without any doubt, an intriguing listen but a very quality-oriented one that combines two very distinct universes, and that will work with all the open minded thrashers out there, as well as the symphonic metal fans. "We had the dream of giving this track a really epic dimension and that's the reason why we've decided to record it with an orchestra. We're very pleased with the final result and we feel this work is a giant step in our journey! In fact, we like to take risks, break barriers and do new things that, as far as I'm concerned, were never done by other Portuguese thrash metal band... debuting at the Coliseum with Slayer was already something unique and recording with the orchestra was another great achievement." Watch the video for "Homens Ao Mar" with the "Circulo de Musica de Camara" Orchestra at this location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfiAkyk_CLE Portugal's Filil Nigrantium Infernalium premiere new track from upcoming Osmose album at Ultraje.pt28/4/2018  Cult Portuguese metallers Filii Nigrantium Infernalium premiere the new track "Pó" at heavily trafficked web-portal Ultraje.pt. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated third album, Hóstia, set for international release on May 25th via Osmose Productions. Also on that date, Osmose Productions shall release a totally re-recorded version of Filii Nigrantium Infernalium's 2005 debut album, Fellatrix, as well as a reissue of 2013's Pornokrates: Deo Gratias. Hear Filii Nigrantium Infernalium's brand-new "Pó" in its entirety exclusively HERE. Five years after their last album, Pornokrates: Deo Gratias, Filii Nigrantium Infernalium are once again risen from the infernal depths to deliver a new offering onto the altar of sacrifice, their best and most impressive work to date: Hóstia. This elusive band which has, so far, seldom left its hellish pit, despite a lengthy history, brewed or, shall we say, baked the most blasphemous communion bread never to have been shared in the holy mass. Hóstia, like the band, is a sardonic, acid, Heavy Black Metal offering brought from a time in which Metal was Black and Black was Metal, savage and iconoclastic. Osmose Productions retrieves from the near-forgotten past a band whose roots run deep into early times. And nearly three decades after the band's inception, Filii Nigrantium Infernalium still have much to say, as Hóstia makes plain. This is a new definition of classic Heavy and Black Metal, sung in one of the most widespread languages in the Catholic world, Portuguese, to poison your soul with the venomous charm of funerary carnivalesque Necrotheoholocaust! Featuring awesome and unforgettable prayer words by world-infamous necro-poet N.ª S.ª Perpétua and adorned with cover artwork by outrageous classical avant-garde metalhead painter Paolo Girardi, inspired by Rome’s Vatican baroque century frescoes. It pays, simultaneously, homage to the great Heavy Metal cover art tradition. Come take the sacrament of Black Heavy Metal while you linger in wait for the afterlife. The first sacrament can be found exclusively HERE, courtesy of Ultraje.pt.
 Portuguese grind metal band AXIA have teamed up with Decibel Magazine to stream their new song "Fading Into Nothing." The song is taken from their aptly named new album Pulverizer which will be released on April 27th via Selfmadegod. Listen to the song here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/04/20/track-premiere-axia-fading-into-nothing/ AXIA was crafted by four seasoned musicians known for their work in The Ominous Circle, Holocausto, Canibal, Heavenwood and Colosso among others; vocalist Alex Vale is joined by guitarist Max Tome, with bassist Ze Pedro and drummer Marcelo Aires rounding out the rhythm section. This new project builds on their collective experience to create an opus that is even more negative and hopeless than their previous respective outputs. Mastered by Peter In de Betou (Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Meshuggah, Hypocrisy), Pulverizer attests to AXIA's harsh determination. Called "a furiously paced representation of a highly mechanized war zone" by No Clean Singing, this album is sure to make a grim mark on all who hear it. LINEUP: Alex Vale – Vocals Max Tome – Guitar Ze Pedro – Bass Marcelo Aires – Drums All music by Max Tome and Alex Vale. All lyrics by Alex Vale, Max Tome and Ze Pedro. Recorded at Sound Stone Studio and HNK Studio. Produced and mixed by Max Tome. Mastered by Peter in de Betou. Logo by Ze Pedro. Cover and band pictures by Joao Fitas  Portuguese death metal cult Summon stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Parazv Il Zilittv, at heavily trafficked web-portal IndyMetalVault.com. Set for international release on April 20th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Summon's Parazv Il Zilittv in its entirety exclusively HERE. 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 splendor 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. What thusly emerged was Summon's debut EP, Aesthetics of Demise, which was released by Iron Bonehead during the summer of 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. A swirling, sulphurous mass of molten death-doom, Aesthetics of Demise was aptly titled, but on the fuller and more fleshed-out Parazv Il Zilittv, the trio both dive deeper into the murk and emerge into clearer dimensions. By no means do Summon here abandon their expertly crafted monolith of death-doom, but they largely (and wisely) leave behind the obfuscating murk which has become so de rigueur (read: TRENDY) in the millennial metal underground. Instead, each passage patiently unfolds and establishes its intended texture, terrorizing the mind and body with oppressive physical/spiritual weight - even (and especially) when stripped back to foggy, tension-inducing mist. The consequently linear songwriting soon works its sepulchral magic, as lurching 'n' lumbering riffs are stretched into hammering trances, sending undulating waves of absolute ritualism deep into the listener's core. Which is all to say nothing of the production on Parazv Il Zilittv, which somehow manages to make Summon sound creepier despite the clearer and more cutting recording style.
With Aesthetics of Demise, Summon proved that their smashed-psyche sorcery transcended the usual "sepulchral death metal" tropes. Now, with Parazv Il Zilittv, they prove that that sorcery is potent enough to simultaneously open and close the crypt of time eternal. How far will you step in/out? Dare to step fully in exclusively HERE, courtesy of IndyMetalVault.com. www.facebook.com/Summonband www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions  Blackened death metallers Scarificare stream the entirety of their highly anticipated third album, Tilasm, at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. Set for international release on April 20th via Helldprod Records, hear Scarificare's Tilasm in its entirety exclusively HERE. A work of both crushing heaviness and mystical atmosphere, Tilasm is the album where Scarificare truly come into their own. Theirs is a sound that skilfully ranges black metal, death metal, and doom alike, never settling for easy categorization nor schizophrenically losing focus. Across seven songs in 45 minutes, the listener is taken on a cosmic ride like no other, each movement as memorable as the last. They say the third time's a charm, and indeed it is for Scarificare with Tilasm. Scarificare are a Portuguese extreme metal band formed by Crusher (bass/vocals), Sothis (drums), and Quetzalcoatl (guitars) in Oporto in late 2006. The main purpose was - and still is - to make extreme metal music inspired by all cosmic forces, the wisdom of ancient pagan religions, and consequently in ourselves. In 2007, Inverno joined the band on bass guitar, leaving Crusher totally dedicated to the voice. The band recorded the demo tape Sulphurous Wrath, to be released by Portuguese label Skull Productions. In the beginning of 2008, Sothis leaves the band, giving place to a new drummer named Njord. In 2009, the band started recording their first album, Perpectual Decline. The album was self-financed and was released on October 9th, 2010. After some live concerts in Portugal and Spain for the debut album's promotion, the band participated in the Portuguese black metal compilation Lusitania Dark Horde II with one original track called "Burning Abyss." In the subsequent months, the band started composing the second album, and during the course of that, Crusher leaves. Since then, Quetzalcoatl has assumed vocals in the band. That second album, Postulado, was recorded between late 2012 and April 2013, and officially released on October 12th, 2013 by the Portuguese label Helldprod. The bass lines recorded by Inverno closed his participation in the band. Promotional live concerts during the following months were given by some guests on bass guitar. In late 2014, Njord also leaves the band. During 2015 and 2016, Quetzalcoatl was already composing new music and searching for new band members to keep Scarificare going. In late 2016, Eligos joins the band on bass guitar. At the beginning of 2017, Luis Leal joins the band on drums. During the summer of that same year, the band starts recording their third album, Tilasm, at Hannuman Studios with producer Bruno Silva. The recording process ended in December 2017, and the official release date has been set for April 20th, again through Helldprod Records.
In the lead-up to its release this Friday, hear Tilasm in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Preorder info can be found HERE. www.facebook.com/SCARIFICARE www.helldprod.com www.facebook.com/helldprod www.helldprod.bandcamp.com Denmark's Taphos sets release date for debut album; reveals first tracks, to tour with Degial in May4/4/2018  Blood Harvest Records and Helter Skelter Productions set June 8th as the international release date for Taphos' highly anticipated debut album, Come Ethereal Somberness, on CD and 12" vinyl formats. Hot on the heels of Blood Harvest's compilation of the band's first two recordings as Demo MMXVI & 7" EP MMXVII, garnering widespread acclaim and heightening anticipation for their first full-length, at last arrives Taphos' Come Ethereal Somberness. As a debut LP, Come Ethereal Somberness does everything it should: stay consistent to a band's sound established on their demos whilst pointing toward new avenues. Here, Taphos do both, and then some. Hailing from the same Danish scene as Undergang and Phrenelith, Taphos create a classic - and classically gutted - style of Metal of Death. Their first recording, Demo MMXVI, possessed a darkly thrashing sound highly reminiscent of turn-of-the-'90s death metal on both sides of the Atlantic, as resolutely Scandinavian as it was American, its filthy propulsion as palatably fresh as it was authentically ancient. On the subsequent two-song EP, Taphos' sound becomes more world-eating, their songwriting aims more epic whilst not losing the raw fury of their beginnings. Now, with Come Ethereal Somberness, they synthesize the two stylistic shifts into something both berzerker and epic, manic and finesse in equal measures. Indeed, Taphos are firing on all songwriting cylinders here, as the energy literally bursts off the charts but retains a sense of composure and daresay class rarely scene in full-blooded death metal. Hammering and hideous yet nevertheless invoking a clarity that never castrates their attack, the quartet render each of these seven central compositions (bookended by moody instrumentals) a story unto itself. Hell, the titles themselves tell that story - "Ocular Blackness," "Insidious Gyres," and the equally telltale "Thrive in Upheaval" and "Impending Peril" among them - and that story is horrific. New nightmares are here, then, and Taphos will be taking them on the road with a full European tour this May alongside Swedish comrades Degial (dates after the jump). Until then, as its title ominously proclaims, Come Ethereal Somberness! Hear two new tracks off the album, the aforementioned "Thrive in Upheaval" and "Impending Peril" HERE at Blood Harvest's Bandcamp. Pre-order info can be found HERE.
"The Preditorial Siege of Europa" tour dates with Degial
[more tour info: www.killtownbookings.com] www.facebook.com/taphosdeath www.taphos.bandcamp.com www.bloodharvest.se www.bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com www.twitter.com/BloodHarvestRec www.facebook.com/pages/Blood-Harvest-Records/300012152033  Blackened death metallers Scarificare premiere the new track "Occult Radiance" at Decibel magazine's website. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated third album, Tilasm, set for international release on April 20th via Helldprod Records. Hear Scarificare's "Occult Radiance" in its entirety exclusively HERE. A work of both crushing heaviness and mystical atmosphere, Tilasm is the album where Scarificare truly come into their own. Theirs is a sound that skilfully ranges black metal, death metal, and doom alike, never settling for easy categorization nor schizophrenically losing focus. Across seven songs in 45 minutes, the listener is taken on a cosmic ride like no other, each movement as memorable as the last. They say the third time's a charm, and indeed it is for Scarificare with Tilasm. Scarificare are a Portuguese extreme metal band formed by Crusher (bass/vocals), Sothis (drums), and Quetzalcoatl (guitars) in Oporto in late 2006. The main purpose was - and still is - to make extreme metal music inspired by all cosmic forces, the wisdom of ancient pagan religions, and consequently in ourselves. In 2007, Inverno joined the band on bass guitar, leaving Crusher totally dedicated to the voice. The band recorded the demo tape Sulphurous Wrath, to be released by Portuguese label Skull Productions. In the beginning of 2008, Sothis leaves the band, giving place to a new drummer named Njord. In 2009, the band started recording their first album, Perpectual Decline. The album was self-financed and was released on October 9th, 2010. After some live concerts in Portugal and Spain for the debut album's promotion, the band participated in the Portuguese black metal compilation Lusitania Dark Horde II with one original track called "Burning Abyss." In the subsequent months, the band started composing the second album, and during the course of that, Crusher leaves. Since then, Quetzalcoatl has assumed vocals in the band. That second album, Postulado, was recorded between late 2012 and April 2013, and officially released on October 12th, 2013 by the Portuguese label Helldprod. The bass lines recorded by Inverno closed his participation in the band. Promotional live concerts during the following months were given by some guests on bass guitar. In late 2014, Njord also leaves the band. During 2015 and 2016, Quetzalcoatl was already composing new music and searching for new band members to keep Scarificare going. In late 2016, Eligos joins the band on bass guitar. At the beginning of 2017, Luis Leal joins the band on drums. During the summer of that same year, the band starts recording their third album, Tilasm, at Hannuman Studios with producer Bruno Silva. The recording process ended in December 2017, and the official release date has been set for April 20th, again through Helldprod Records.
In the meantime, hear the new track "Occult Radiance" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. The previously revealed "Crystal Skull" can be heard HERE at Helldprod's Soundcloud. Preorder info can be found HERE.
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