 After one month of voting, nearly 6,000 votes cast and countless sharing across all social media platforms by us and nominees alike, the time has come to announce the winners of the GMA Awards 2019. But before that happens, there will be a change to how the nominees are cast. For 10 months of the year we will be running a series of rounds from which the 10 finalists will be recognised for the annual event. The system will work as thus: nominees elected in the month of January are voted for in February... February nominees voted in March, etc and finishes with nominees in October being voted for in November - the finalists will then be voted for across the month of December and into early January 2021; finishing 8th January 2021. Now that's put out into the open, we can finally reveal the winners of the GMA Awards 2019.  Release Of The Year
 Best Live Act
 Breakthrough African Metal Band
 Breakthrough Asian Metal Band
 Breakthrough European Metal Band
 Breakthrough UK Metal Band
 Breakthrough North & Central American Metal Band
 Breakthrough Oceanian Metal Band
 Breakthrough South American Metal Band
 Breakthrough International Metal Band
 Festival Of The Year
Music Video Of The Year
 Global Metal Ambassador 2019
* Later withdrawn by request of nominee.
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Peruvian Power / Heavy Metallers Hamadría release their new single and music video "Crepúsculo"4/7/2019  Hamadría, present the music video for "Crepúsculo", taken from their first album "Reina Azul", recorded entirely in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. Watch it here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CIMutEdNfI&feature=youtu.be Video directed by Hector F. Ilizarbe S. who is also a member of Hamadría. Hamadría is: Ingrid Castro (lead vocal) Lesly Soto (keyboards, backing vocals) Hector Ilizarbe (drums) Miguel Cantuta (guitar) Eduardo Pinto (bass guitar) Cristian Gamboa (guitar, backing vocals) www.facebook.com/bandahamadria  Peruvian thrash/death metallers Maze of Terror have just inked a deal with Xtreem Music for the release of their second album, which is currently being written for a recording some time in 2019. As an appetizer, the band have just released three days ago a digital EP entitled Evoked Black Souls, of which you can listen to one song HERE and entirely HERE and HERE. Maze of Terror was born in 2011 with the aim of creating raw and devastating thrash/death metal and released their first EP, Skullcrusher, in 2012, followed by a split CD with Amken in 2015 and then their debut album, Ready to Kill, in 2016. Later in 2017, another split CD came out, this time with Witchaven, and in 2018, the band self-released a digital-only EP entitled Evoked Black Souls, just when the band got signed with Xtreem Music. The style of Maze of Terror is influenced by bands like Infernäl Mäjesty, Merciless, Massacra, Protector, and Demolition Hammer, so you'd better give them a listen now! More details about the album will be revealed when recordings begin during 2019. In the meantime, watch the killer video clip from the song "Lycanthropes" taken from their debut album HERE. For more info, consult the links below. www.facebook.com/mazeofterrorthrash www.xtreemmusic.com www.facebook.com/xtreemmusic666 www.xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com www.youtube.com/xtreemmusic www.twitter.com/xtreemmusic666 www.soundcloud.com/xtreemmusic  Peruvian death metal monsters Rotten Evisceration reveals the first single “Ascending From The Putrid Grave”. The album "Ancient Grave Ascension" will be out on November 1st 2018. Dr. Surgeon Mutilador comment: “It is the first time we will have a support like this for one of our songs. We are very excited to show the video to all the death metal maniacs. This video fits perfectly with the song "Ascending From The Putrid Grave" because the lyrics are closely related to the art of the cover. It show in its images all the musical brutality that we want to transmit to the audience”
 Blood Spattered Axe Records in conjunction with Guts ´n´ Blood Records are proud to reveal the track-list and the artwork cover of "Ancient Grave Ascension", the debut full length Rotten Evisceration, a putrefying death metal band from Peru; with strong shades of classic death metal which will see the light of day on November 1st. 2018. It will be released on a three-panel digipak format, with exclusive artwork done by Indonesian artist Raymond Art (Stigmatuary, Decomposed, Bloodshed, Neoplassis, Swarm Of Serpents, Slaves Of Suffering…) Featuring a raw death metal sound resulting from the mix of technique, brutality and harsh guitar solos, their concept album and lyrics are focused on telling horror stories and necrophilic fantasies with the undead. It is similar to a horror movie that instead of using images we do it through our powerful and insane guitar riffs attached to crushing drums.
"Ancient Grave Ascension" was recorded, mixed and mastered at Solar Empire Studio by Aquiles "Solar Empire”, Pueblo Libre – Lima, 2018. https://risemetal666.wixsite.com/rottenevisceration https://www.facebook.com/rottenevisceration/ https://gutsandblood.bandcamp.com/ https://gutsandblood.wixsite.com/tienda https://www.facebook.com/gutsandblood  Peruvian death metal cult Tunjum stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Deidades del inframundo, via IndyMetalVault.com. Set for international release on July 23rd via Dunkelheit Produktionen for the CD version (the vinyl LP version shall see release on August 1st), hear Tunjum's Deidades del inframundo in its entirety exclusively HERE. Hailing from Lima, Peru, Tunjum began in 2007 as an all-female project playing pagan-themed death metal. Their first promo tape arrived in 2011, to be followed by another promo in 2014, and later that year the Sagrado tiempo de caos EP and the Muerte ancestral demo. Though the line-up changed during these years, Tunjum remained committed to their primary influences - Death, Massacre, Autopsy, Treblinka, Nocturnus, VON, Nihilist, Insulter, Grotesque, Asphyx, Expulser, and Genocidio among others - but always endeavoured to etch their own uniqueness within such exquisite rawness and darkness. And while that line-up has since ceased to be an all-female one, founding drummer (and now also vocalist) Kultarr continues to guide the band, and her vocals lend a particularly diabolic aspect to Tunjum's proudly traditional attack. Since the beginning, Tunjum's themes have largely revolved around the ancient Moche culture, which reigned over eastern Peru from about 100 AD to 800 AD. Through Tunjum's music, the listener is drawn into the Moche mythology, which is strongly based on blood: sacrificing the blood of a beheaded enemy to the gods strengthened their reign over the world. Also, there were many voluntary sacrifices, because the bloodshed was seen as a cleansing of the soul that linked the victim to the ancestors and thus made him holy. The name Tunjum itself is also rooted in the Moche language, and is taken from the combined verb for killing and dying. This hallows the ritual of blood and death, which was the only way of communicating with the gods, in times when the gods only lusted for blood and war.
Indeed, across the 42 minutes comprising Deidades del inframundo, the listener is dragged deeply down into Tunjum's deadly vortex of blood, sacrifice, and total DEATH METAL. Tunjum's attack is at once unapologetically primitive and expertly nuanced, which is not surprising considering their current line-up is completed by members of such respected cults as Grave Desecration and Putrid. The hammering surge strips everything down to its barbaric basics, but within that almost-hypnotizing rush of crude 'n' rude Metal of Death lays a keen understanding of what makes this art-form so enduring - songwriting that literally possesses the listener immediately, and proceeds to guide each listener into the darkest bowels of the imagination (and beyond...). And it's a totality that Tunjum pound and punish and pound and punish across each of these eight tracks, with Kultarr's world-eating vocals, in particular, acting like an instrument unto itself; simply, there is no escape. Completed by suitably ominous artwork courtesy of Alan Corpse, Tunjum make a grand, garish entry onto the world stage with Deidades del inframundo. The question remains, then: will you return from their thrall? Tempt fate fully exclusively HERE, courtesy of IndyMetalVault.com. Pre-order info can be found HERE at Dunkelheit's Bandcamp. www.dunkelheit.cc www.facebook.com/dunkelheitprod  Shortly after their first album "Waves of Steel" was released, Mandragora parted ways with their singer Fatima Natthammer - which was a shock for most of the band fans. Inferno Records can reveal the identity of their new singer! Make sure she's gonna push the band further, her vocal abilities are not to be proved any more, since she's known for being the singer of the Peruvian all-female band STROGENA. Please welcome Miss Maria Orithya in the ranks of Mandragora! Since Maria joined the band, Mandragora have been very busy rehearsing a lot playing a lot of new gigs/festivals but also writing new songs and is now planning the release of a new 7"EP on Inkas Noize Records (same label that released the "First Attack" EP in 2014) as soon as possible ! Stay tuned ! www.facebook.com/MandragoraSteelMetal  Peruvian death metal cult Tunjum premiere the new track "La Maldicion de la Bruja" at Decibel magazine's website. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Deidades del inframundo, set for international release on July 23rd via Dunkelheit Produktionen for the CD version; the vinyl LP version shall see release on August 1st. Hear Tunjum's "La Maldicion de la Bruja" in its entirety exclusively HERE. Hailing from Lima, Peru, Tunjum began in 2007 as an all-female project playing pagan-themed death metal. Their first promo tape arrived in 2011, to be followed by another promo in 2014, and later that year the Sagrado tiempo de caos EP and the Muerte ancestral demo. Though the line-up changed during these years, Tunjum remained committed to their primary influences - Death, Massacre, Autopsy, Treblinka, Nocturnus, VON, Nihilist, Insulter, Grotesque, Asphyx, Expulser, and Genocidio among others - but always endeavored to etch their own uniqueness within such exquisite rawness and darkness. And while that lineup has since ceased to be an all-female one, founding drummer (and now also vocalist) Kultarr continues to guide the band, and her vocals lend a particularly diabolic aspect to Tunjum's proudly traditional attack. Since the beginning, Tunjum's themes have largely revolved around the ancient Moche culture, which reigned over eastern Peru from about 100 AD to 800 AD. Through Tunjum's music, the listener is drawn into the Moche mythology, which is strongly based on blood: sacrificing the blood of a beheaded enemy to the gods strengthened their reign over the world. Also, there were many voluntary sacrifices, because the bloodshed was seen as a cleansing of the soul that linked the victim to the ancestors and thus made him holy. The name Tunjum itself is also rooted in the Moche language, and is taken from the combined verb for killing and dying. This hallows the ritual of blood and death, which was the only way of communicating with the gods, in times when the gods only lusted for blood and war.
Indeed, across the 42 minutes comprising Deidades del inframundo, the listener is dragged deeply down into Tunjum's deadly vortex of blood, sacrifice, and total DEATH METAL. Tunjum's attack is at once unapologetically primitive and expertly nuanced, which is not surprising considering their current lineup is completed by members of such respected cults as Grave Desecration and Putrid. The hammering surge strips everything down to its barbaric basics, but within that almost-hypnotizing rush of crude 'n' rude Metal of Death lays a keen understanding of what makes this art form so enduring - songwriting that literally possesses the listener immediately, and proceeds to guide each listener into the darkest bowels of the imagination (and beyond...). And it's a totality that Tunjum pound and punish and pound and punish across each of these eight tracks, with Kultarr's world-eating vocals, in particular, acting like an instrument unto itself; simply, there is no escape. Completed by suitably ominous artwork courtesy of Alan Corpse, Tunjum make a grand, garish entry onto the world stage with Deidades del inframundo. The question remains, then: will you return from their thrall? Tempt fate again HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. Tempt fate with the previously revealed "La Venganza De La Bestia Lunar" and "Difunta Señora Soberana" HERE at Dunkelheit's Bandcamp, where the album can also be pre-ordered. www.dunkelheit.cc www.facebook.com/dunkelheitprod  Dunkelheit Produktionen has set July 23rd as the international release date for Tunjum's highly anticipated debut album, Deidades del inframundo, on CD format. The vinyl LP version shall see release on August 1st. Hailing from Lima, Peru, Tunjum began in 2007 as an all-female project playing pagan-themed death metal. Their first promo tape arrived in 2011, to be followed by another promo in 2014, and later that year the Sagrado tiempo de caos EP and the Muerte ancestral demo. Though the line-up changed during these years, Tunjum remained committed to their primary influences - Death, Massacre, Autopsy, Treblinka, Nocturnus, VON, Nihilist, Insulter, Grotesque, Asphyx, Expulser, and Genocidio among others - but always endeavoured to etch their own uniqueness within such exquisite rawness and darkness. And while that line-up has since ceased to be an all-female one, founding drummer (and now also vocalist) Kultarr continues to guide the band, and her vocals lend a particularly diabolic aspect to Tunjum's proudly traditional attack. Since the beginning, Tunjum's themes have largely revolved around the ancient Moche culture, which reigned over eastern Peru from about 100 AD to 800 AD. Through Tunjum's music, the listener is drawn into the Moche mythology, which is strongly based on blood: sacrificing the blood of a beheaded enemy to the gods strengthened their reign over the world. Also, there were many voluntary sacrifices, because the bloodshed was seen as a cleansing of the soul that linked the victim to the ancestors and thus made him holy. The name Tunjum itself is also rooted in the Moche language, and is taken from the combined verb for killing and dying. This hallows the ritual of blood and death, which was the only way of communicating with the gods, in times when the gods only lusted for blood and war.
Indeed, across the 42 minutes comprising Deidades del inframundo, the listener is dragged deeply down into Tunjum's deadly vortex of blood, sacrifice, and total DEATH METAL. Tunjum's attack is at once unapologetically primitive and expertly nuanced, which is not surprising considering their current lineup is completed by members of such respected cults as Grave Desecration and Putrid. The hammering surge strips everything down to its barbaric basics, but within that almost-hypnotizing rush of crude 'n' rude Metal of Death lays a keen understanding of what makes this artform so enduring - songwriting that literally possesses the listener immediately, and proceeds to guide each listener into the darkest bowels of the imagination (and beyond...). And it's a totality that Tunjum pound and punish and pound and punish across each of these eight tracks, with Kultarr's world-eating vocals, in particular, acting like an instrument unto itself; simply, there is no escape. Completed by suitably ominous artwork courtesy of Alan Corpse, Tunjum make a grand, garish entry onto the world stage with Deidades del inframundo. The question remains, then: will you return from their thrall? Tempt fate with the new track "Difunta Señora Soberana" HERE at Dunkelheit's Bandcamp, where the album can also be pre-ordered. www.dunkelheit.cc www.facebook.com/dunkelheitprod  Peruvian doom-death cult Antichrist stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Pax Moriendi, at heavily trafficked web-portal IndyMetalVault.com. Set for international release today via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Antichrist's Pax Moriendi in its entirety exclusively HERE. Formed in 2004 but not really kicking into recorded gear until a decade later, Antichrist soon released a steady stream of demos between 2014 and 2016. Through this requisite underground graft, the trio studiously perfected their craft, shaping its huge 'n' haunting foundation - the doom-death trinity of Thergothon, Unholy, and Winter - into something qualitatively their own. And indeed, across the five-song/45-minute Pax Moriendi, the listener is taken down into sewers a mile deep (or more), tweaking that immortal doom-death schematic into something righteously foul and filthy but still well within the range of melancholic human experience. Crushing-yet-ethereal chords reverberate through the forlorn night, and ever deeper into one's worst corners of their subconscious; the attack is slow yet insistent early on, with the foulness and filth flung liberally, to either alienate part-timers or beckon the most intrepid of souls. Then, as the album plays on, Pax Moriendi reveals a wounded sort of slo-mo melody, a blanching vulnerability, shedding its layers of metaphysical/spiritual garbage for the laid-bare/laid-to-rest epiphany of climactic closer "You Will Never See Sun Light."
No, indeed you won't when faced with the enormity of Antichrist's Pax Moriendi. Here is your funeral: welcome the end. Walk forth fully to the commencement of that funeral exclusively HERE, courtesy of IndyMetalVault.com. www.facebook.com/pg/antichristperu www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions |
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