Coming from Zagreb, Croatia, GODS OF CHAOS have a very fitting name for their chaotic mix of grind and a touch of noise. The band will be releasing their album March into Perdition on May 1 which will be available digitally. They are partnering up with The Path Less Traveled Records for their release.
The band’s guitarist and drummer met in late 2008 at a rifle shop. After talking about guns for a bit and joking about the metal and punk scenes, they agreed that they hated each other’s music taste and lifestyle, aside from duck hunting. They got together and picked out a vocalist and bass player based more on attitude than musical preference and playing technique. The band does not socialize outside of band practices but are serious about their music.
Gods of Chaos recorded March into Perdition with Colin Marston of Behold…the Arctopus and Dysrhythmia fame. Marston runs the Thousand Caves Studio in NY. and has recorded and produced Krallice, Vasaeleth, Altar of Plagues and many other bands.
The band decided to choose Marston because they feel he has the ability to think outside the metal and punk scene conventions. Members of Gods of Chaos find his production approach, playing aesthetics and attitude similar to theirs.
The ultra-heavy Norwegian three-piece, Tombstones, is back with their new album “Year of the Burial”.
With this effort Tombstones redefine their own formula of downtuned heaviness. Their doom is darker, filthier, heavier and more consistent. The sinister approach of “Year of the Burial” sends shivers of cold down your spine, and takes you back to the evil priests of ancient times.
Unlike any modern production, the sound of Tombstones is rich, warm and dynamic. and has a low end destined to crush all things crossing its path.
“Year of the Burial” is recorded live in winter-cold Oslo, behind the gates of Caliban Studios. With it’s lack of dead-compressed sounds, the production provided by Petter Svee, Audun Strype and Tombstones, makes you feel present during the actual recording and has a life of its own.
Needless to say, this album will leave its marks. Light your candles and feel the darkness.
TRACKLIST
1. Unveiling
2. Silent Voice
3. Quintessential
4. Egypt
5. Year of the Burial
6. Sabbathian
DISCOGRAPHY
Volume I (2009)
Volume II (2010)
Year Of The Burial (2012)
Amongst other great bands, Cacophonic PR’s own Alunah and Iron Witch will be appearing at this year’s DesertFest in Camden happening on April 6th, 7th and 8th. Other bands playing include Corrosion of Conformity, Orange Goblin and Church of Misery. For more information visit www.thedesertfest.com.
Alunah well gladly be a part of the Falling Down IIV compilation due out in April. They will be included on the “Endless CD” with their track “Call of Avernus” which has the following track-listing:
1| Magdalena Solis & Robert Krieger – Spirit of a Hungry Beast (unreleased)
2| Crooked Man – DuskeyHead (unreleased)
3| Pelican – An Inch Above Sand (unreleased demo version)
4| Ahkmed – Samar
5| Stoned Jesus – Malda Vale (preview)
6| Ninth Moon Black – Mors Carnis (preview)
7| Alunah – Call of Avernus
8| Brightstar – Tide Pool (unreleased)
9| Across Tundras – Indian Summer Storms
10| Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Leshy (unreleased)
11| Lost in Kiev – I’m Stuck
12| The Great Old Ones – Visions of R’lyeh (preview)
13| Zatokrev – Feel the Fire Pt.1 (preview)
14| Hexis – Nex
15| Hexis – Procella
The Falling Down IIV compilation is available for pre-order on http://fallingdowncompilation.bigcartel.com/
We are proud to announce that we’ll be working with UK doom band Alunah. Coined as the “future of doom” by Terrorizer Magazine, we are extremely thrilled to see Alunah’s progression and to hear what they will gift us with next.
Alunah’s debut album “Call of Avernus” received absolutely excellent reviews including: “This album is what happens when exceptional stoner rock and sexy doom are mixed and topped with badass female vocals.” – The Soda Shop
Alunah will be releasing their second album on PsycheDOOMelic Records in mid-summer. This album will be recorded by Greg Chandler and mixed and mastered by Tony Reed (St. Vitus).
Vocalist/guitarist Sophie was recently interviewed by Terrorizer Magazine for their “Secret History of Doom Metal” issue which can be read here: http://www.alunah.co.uk/1/post/2012/03/terrorizer-magazine-hail-alunah-as-future-of-doom.html
The band also has upcoming shows in the UK in April:
Thursday, Apri 5th: Int. Powerhouse of Doom Fest @ Scruffy Murphys in Birmingham w/ Stone Axe, Stubb, Trippy Wicked, Banda de la Muerte and Cultura Tres
Saturday, April 7th: DesertScene Presents DesertFest 2012 @ The Black Heart in Camden, London
Friday, April 13th: The Croft in Bristol w/ Prosperina
Friday, April 20th: The Wheatsheaf in Oxford w/ One Unique Signal, Agness Pike and Black Sunrise
Manipulator is mysterious French Death Metal moiling the macabre manipulation at the threshold of the beyond, with dour execration as a gateway to the other side. Here are Four cryptic summonings of departure, to journey on Stygian streams. Voidbound.
• Brilliant art by Samu of Swallowed (Fin)
• Also features the “Unearthed” demo, bringing 50 minutes of music against a mid-price!
• Includes stunning Darkthrone cover “Cromlech”
• Unique grim death metal from France!
Tracklist:
VOIDBOUND
I – Passing the River
II – Massgraves
III – Voyage
IV – Cromlech
UNEARTHED
V – Onslaught of the Weak
VI – Conclusive Ablaze
VII – I am Lie
VIII – B&B
IX – Of Witch and Wood
X – Left Hand of God
XI – Pyre No Fire
XII – Lost in the Woods
Weh is unique and stands on its own, lonely at the top of Nordic land –and sound scapes. After the highly acclaimed compilation of demos Weh’s mastermind Erik E. Now returns with the official debut album.
Dark classic Neofolk. Both the musical and the lyrical style of “En Natt Kom Doed” should be recognizable to those familiar with Weh from before, collected in the stylish “Origins” double album, but this time with the inclusion of instruments not used on earlier recordings. Again, the themes dance around the darker corners of the mind. That’s just how it is.
• Official debut after the highly acclaimed introduction double album “Origins” (2010)
• Highest form of acoustic craftsmanship in a unique way, THIS MUST BE HEARD!
TRACKLIST:
1. Oedegaarden
2. A Testament Of Time
3. Demon Av Natur
4. La Onde Guder Hvile
5. The Unborn
6. En Natt Kom Doed
7. What Is Written
8. Helvete
New Jersey’s black metal legends ABAZAGORATH will be releasing their self-titled EP through CT. based record label NoVisible Scars in March.
Abazagorath, meaning “the Spirit of Hate for Mankind” formed in 1995. According to the band’s Facebook page, “Abazagorath was formed with the intention of creating original Black Metal with a dark and haunting atmosphere. Abazagorath reflects the initiates’ deepest fantasies of hatred, war, melancholy, darkness, evil, the occult and death.”
Along with several releases, the band has shared the stage with some of underground metal’s best known acts such as Deicide, Marduk, Enslaved, Impaled Nazarene, Incantation and Suffocation, just to name a few.
Around 2007, Abazagorath took a hiatus for several years until they reappeared in the black metal scene in 2011. The hiatus was caused by lineup issues as well as the member’s involvement in other bands such as Funebrarum, Evoken, Warhead, In Memorium, Angelcide and ex-Immolith.
This second arrival of Abazagorath means that they are here to stay and will bring more wrath and evil than ever before.
The track-listing is as follows:
Conjuring
The Antigod
Lapse
Immortals
Storms of Destruction
Texas based symphonic dark metal band VESPERIAN SORROW will be releasing their fourth full-length album Stormwinds of Ages on April 24.
The Path Less Traveled Records are pleased to announce their partnership with Vesperian Sorrow for this release. The Path Less Traveled Records said, “We’re in the situation now where signing bands a la the 2000′s is no longer a smart business move. We will distribute this record through MRI/RED for the band. The band is paying for the physical product themselves and will receive a majority of what is sold. No more excuses for labels screwing bands. This is the first of many partnerships you will hear from us in the future.”
Since 1998, Vesperian Sorrow have toured throughout Europe and North America. Stormwinds of Ages was recorded, mixed, and mastered at the band’s own Amplitude Media Studios.
This release has already received high praise from several media sources, including Loucifer Speaks where she said, “The album itself feels like a more complete work than previous albums. Every track is placed in its optimum place to enable the band to take you through their elaborate and monumental soundscapes. The production is clean and crisp and allows you to be able to absorb every detail of everything that’s taking place.”
The track-listing is as follows: 1. Sanguis Vitam Est 2. Stormwinds of Ages 3. An Empire to Mourn 4. Casting Down Into Shadow 5. Crown of Glass 6. Legacies Befallen 7. Eye of the Clocktower 8. Oracle from the Ashes 9. Relics of Impurity 10. Death She Cried 11. Of Opiates and Accolades
After a collection of demos and EPs, splits and their first album Eternal Harsh, NEFTARAKA have invoked more black metal hatred and savagery in the form of their sophomore full-length album on Eldritch Lunar Miasma Records, Morts. This album is dedicated to Evil in Man. Mortswill be released on compact disc and also on cassette tape which is limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. The album is due to be released on Jan 21.
Neftaraka’s previous full length Eternal Harsh was reviewed on Lurker’s Path who said, “While the name and country of origin [Malaysia] hardly scream black metal, the regimental orthodoxy that takes hold on their latest full-length, Eternal Harsh, is ponderously melodic in its blasting, regimented style.” Neftaraka’s duel between hailing from Malaysia and playing black metal may just be enough reason to want to check them out.
Morts was recorded between Jan. 2010 and Sept. 2011 at Unholy Necro X Studio in Malaysia.
The track-listing for Morts is as followed:
1. Rituale
2. Sufferance
3. Morbid
4. Legions (Silverian Kvlt)
5. Pandemonium
6. F.O.A.D.A
7. Anttarra Solitude
8. Morts
