Hailing from Poland, epic black  death metallers Devilish Impressions will release their new album, “The I” on September 22nd, 2017 via Lifeforce Records. The album will be available as CD digipak, limited vinyl LP and digital download. Recorded at various studios, including Dobra 12 Studio (drums) and Icaros Studio (guitars) the disc was mixed and mastered at Impressive-Art Studio by Przemyslaw Nowak who also handled vocals recording sessions and guitars’ re-amping. The album’s artwork, design and layout were created by Infected Minds. Photo session by Robert Zembrzycki and Pawel Kowalski of BandPhoto. The album features special guest appearances by Mercyful Fate / King Diamond’s guitarist Mike Wead and by Norway’s dark metal masters Read more →

After 6 years of endless composing and re-composing, recording and re-recording, mixing and re-mixing and other wonders of nature, Russian ethnic metallers Kartkeya can finally give us a final and 100% accurate release date of their upcoming 3rd full-length album, entitled “Samudra“! So be it, on 19th of October, 2017, celebrating the Hindu festival of lights Diwali, Kartikeya will present the monument of a record, on which they have been working all these long years! And in the meantime, to tease your minds and eyes, the band would like to show you the cover art of ”Samudra” (made by their good friends Darius Alas and Christina Shapiro from Midiankai ARTS) and the final album tracklist!

Tracklist:
1. Dharma pt. 1
2. Tandava                     Read more →

American one-man black metal band Highborne, the personal project of Archon (also in Valiant) from Albuquerque, New Mexico is pleased to inform that the third full-length album “Visions of Retribution” will be released on October 13th, 2017. It will be Highborne’s biggest record to date, as Archon dares to cross new genre defying styles and progress his black metal experience even further. “Visions of Retribution” is the very vein of the meaning of Highborne and will conclude Archon’s tale that he began on the first two albums “Descent” and “The Dusk of Solitude“. Conceptually the record is about vengeance, and the punishment of one’s personal wrongdoing and the fear of retribution. Archon will include Scarification’s Rott on a few songs, and will as well feature a Bandcamp and CD bonus track cover of Darkthrone’s “In the Shadow Read more →

Romanian pagan black metallers Syn Ze Sase Tri from Timisoara are pleased to reveal the cover art and track listing for their upcoming fourth full-length album “Zăul Moș“, a work strongly inspired by the bloody myth of the Ancient Dacian Legends of their motherland Transylvania. 2016 was a very difficult year for Syn Ze Sase Tri, since most of the band members had to leave the band, due to loss of interest or personal problems. Corbu (one of the band’s founding members) finally decided to continue the band, recruiting new members: “Moș” on guitars, Florin “Dor” Gheorghiță on drums and Florin “Șuier” Costăchiță on vocals, all of them with experience in bands like Opus Ruina, Malpraxis, Necrovile, Ka Gaia An, An Theos or Dark Fusion. Syn Ze Sase Tri have renewed their contract with Aural Music / Code666 label and “Zăul Moș” will be released on September 29th 2017.

Tracklist:
1. Tărîmu De Lumină
2. Dîn Negru Gînd                             Read more →