SOUL REMNANTS: Black and Blood Available for Pre-order

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions has signed Massachusetts black/death beasts Soul Remnants and will release their new album Black And Blood on October 31 on CD and Digital formats. Below is the official description.

Soul Remnants make their Horror Pain Gore Death Productions debut with their punishing sophomore album Black And Blood. Hailing from Massachusetts, Soul Remnant's journey further into the darkness... revealing the shattered sound of destroyed souls. Following the road of corpses left by legends like Death, Suffocation, Carcass and Deicide, Black And Blood is a transformative concoction; thrashing together elements of Scandinavian Black Metal, old school Floridian/brutal Death Metal and unearthly mind searing guitar solos. The end result is an overflowing cauldron of blood, which spews forth pure bone-crushing madness! The release comes housed in a high quality six-panel digipak complete with full lyrics and showcases the stellar Black And Blood artwork. For fans of Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Death, Decapitated, Deicide, Hypocrisy, Monstrosity, Rivers Of Nihil, Slayer, Suffocation and Terrorizer.

Metal411.com recently gave fans a taste of the album with the debut of album track "No Afterlife." Check it out now below.  

Pre-order your copy of the CD for only $10 with free shipping.

Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66.

Hailing from the outskirts of Boston, Mass., Soul Remnants is a death metal quintet making a name for itself in the underground scene. The group began to form in 2003 with Thomas Preziosi on guitar (Year of Our Lord, Armory) and Mitch Fletcher on vocals.  They aimed to combine the raw intensity of American death metal with Scandinavian black metal. After a number of demos, the debut album Plague of the Universe was self-released on December 11 2009. It was produced by Pete Rutcho at his Damage Studios. Soul Remnants have since played shows with the local up and coming bands Revocation, Abnormality and Sexcrement, as well as notable national acts: Lock Up, Deceased, Master, Goat Whore, and Rotten Sound. Following the release of the debut album, Ryan Murphy joined on bass (Forced Asphyxiation, Deconformity) Chad Fisher on second guitar (Armory) and Colin Conway on drums (Frozen, Cannae, All that Remains, Death Ray Vision). The current lineup is by far the most intense and proficient incarnation of the band on stage. The next album is planned for release in 2013. Entitled, Black and Blood it seeks to outdo the debut on every possible level, while maintaining the heritage of old school death metal.

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NECROPSY streams For the Blood and Guts

Legendary Finnish Death Metallers NECROPSY have inked a deal with Xtreem Music for the release of their brand new 4-song mini CD "Psychopath Next Door" and their upcoming 2nd full length album most probably for 2014.

Formed back in 1987, the band released numerous demos and EP's until 1993 when they disbanded to later reform in 2011. Among these early recordings, the band did a split LP with DEMIGOD and they're having all these demos, split and EP's re-issued on a 3-CD/4-LP set through Century Media under the title of "Tomb of the Forgotten" out in June 2013. After releasing their debut full length in 2011, the band started long negotiations with Xtreem Music resulting on a deal that will see their new work widely spread, putting back the band's name on the underground Death Metal map in hopes to get the recognition they always deserved.

"Psychopath Next Door" delivers 4 songs of heavy and catchy classic Death Metal with their usual finnish touch. Release date for this EP is still not decided though it should happen during summer 2013. For now, below, you can actually listen to an advance song.

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SORCERY "Legacy of Blood" CD out May 10th

SORCERY has come to an agreement with Xtreem Music for the re-issue on CD of their legendary debut album from 1991 "Bloodchilling Tales" together with their previous 7"EP from 1990 "Rivers of the Dead", both with remastered sound for the first time and a totally revamped artwork and layout. This new re-issue comes under the title of "Legacy of Blood" and has been released last month by swedish labels To The Death & Blood Harvest on 12"LP vinyl format.

This album was out of print on its original CD version for a few years already and since the layout, sound and original cover were of poor quality, the band decided to give it a completely new look. However, original cover art both from the album, EP, photos and lyrices are being included on the new design for everyone's enjoyment.

SORCERY's debut 7"EP caused quite an impact in the swedish scene back in 1990 as well as their debut album a year later, being considered one of the leading Death Metal bands in their country together with acts like ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, CARNAGE, GROTESQUE... creating their own sounding DM style with a devilish feel resulting on a cult album for any lover of swedish Death Metal.

Release date for CD version of "Legacy of Blood" will be May 10th. You can actually see the album cover and listen to an album track below. 

Cardinals Folly`s Strange Conflicts of the Past Reviewed

They began as "The Coven" from 2004 to 2007, the Cardinals Folly come from Finland and present us their latest work aptly titled "Strange Conflicts of the Past", since this is a fine package of all of their early works and arguably their very best material. The tracks 1-3 are from the "Heretic´s Hangover" EP, which was released in early 2008 as the first release under the name of Cardinals Folly. This release was just a few hundred copies and was sold out pretty fast. They left out the last track of this EP, "Uncharted Seas" because it was already on the debut album. They wanted to give some unreleased stuff instead. Tracks 5-8 are from the "Orthodox Faces" EP (2009), which also sold out quickly and received a notable welcoming in the doom circle. Tracks 4-9 and 10 are unreleased tracks from the same era of these two EP´s, also recorded in 2008-2009. Track 4 was featured on The Coven´s 2006 demo-EP "Beltane", but this version of the song is much better, as it´s recorded in 2008 with the Cardinals Folly line-up.

 I will not talk track-by-track, my approach will be short, generic and `course libertine.

To this day and to be honest I didn`t knew the band, when I received the promo for the review I wasn´t expecting the surprise and my questions were: What the Fuck is this? Who the fuck are they? Ian Curtis lives? Joy Division is active? Purists may disagree… of course other influences could be attributed to Cardinals Folly like Type O- Negative and Woods of Ypres but I’m going to follow my own line here.

For a Joy Division worshiper like me this is a great compliment and this likeness cannot be pure coincidence, the Cardinals Folly treads the paths traced by The weird tales of Howard, Wheatley and Lovecraft and their melancholic sound and depressive melodies are the real mirror thereof.

M. Karnstein  Bass, Vocals 

Sebbath Lindberg  Drums

Juho Kilpelä  Guitars

If you're looking for angst, this is the right place, here you can find a magnificent work as a picture painted in black with splashes of blood, where it dominates one profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a decrease in feelings of self-esteem as to find expression in self-reproach culminating in a delusional expectation of punishment. This picture becomes a little more understandable when we consider that, the same traits are found in mourning.

My libidinous relationship with "Strange Conflicts of the Past" has born with the intro; the cue is given in the following words: "Time is now... Heed the call... To enter Cardinals folly... One must be out of his mind..." and I apologize to the band but the orgasm happens before the end, with "The Model", wow, awesome, this original track from Kraftwerk (another of my bands of choice and that saw me grow ...) and that also inspired the band Joy Division, with the death of Ian Curtis and their transformation into New Order, more than ever, that such inspiration was audible and ... visible. We can say at last but not least "Transmission From the Mad Arab" is the music of choice of the recovery room with a cigarette.

For those who are confident of incertitude and the finitude of the things, for those who pursue the melancholic path of the ephemeral time ... Overall this is a perfect album for worshipers of melancholy and depressive Doom Metal.

A one defunct refuses nothing, when I die Cardinals Folly will play and the burial melody filling the air will be “The Model” again and again and again….

1. Intro

2. The Right Hand of Doom

3. Rasputin (The Mad Monk)

4. Serpent Nights

5. Opening Ceremony

6. Blood Axis Raider

7. Cardinals Folly

8. They Found Atlantis

9. The Model

10. Transmission From the Mad Arab

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UNEARTHLY drops new video "Baptized In Blood"

Brazilians Devils UNEARTHLY will release a DVD entitled "Baptizing The East In Blood", recorded last year during a tour in Eastern Europe, "Flagellum on Earth - East European Assault Tour 2012"

Taken from the DVD "Baptizing The East in Blood" the band show us now a little more with a video for the track  "Baptized In Blood" which can be seen below, recorded live at Tarantul Club (Voronezh, Russia).

The DVD brings as main attraction the presentation in the city of Voronezh, Russia. The work will also count with videos shot by fans, backstage images, photo gallery and interviews.

In related news UNEARTHLY will be on "Extreme Hate Festival" 3rd edition on August 4, whose set will be composed of Marduk, Suffocation, Vader and Sinister.

"We're very proud to be part of this gig, it is the Brazilian metal fighting face to face with the hounds" Adds the band.

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Relics of Martyrs: "Scenes of Blood and Betrayal" available now at Noise Head Records

Amman, Jordan, Thrash / Death Metal band "Relics of Martyrs" recently "February 25th, 2012" self-released the debut full-length entitled "Scenes of Blood and Betrayal". Four tracks are available to stream below, worth listening to. "Scenes of Blood and Betrayal"  was produced by Hanna Gargour - Sweetspot Soundworks.

01. What Lays Beneath

02. Hidden in the Sand

03. Vigil Dream

04. A March for Freedom

05. Land of the Untold

06. Judas Between Us

07. Of an Earth and Death

08. Justice Has Been Served

09. Rule of Nature

10. Code of Honor

11. The Martyr's Journey

"Scenes of Blood and Betrayal" is available now at noiseheadrecords.

Relics of Martyrs was formed in 2008 by two Brothers “Hrayr & Masis Mardirossian“, they selected the name “Relics of Martyrs“, in other words: “Of All the Martyrs of the world especially ethnic minorities”.

Amr Atieh - Vocals

Hrayr Mardirossian - Rhythm Guitar

Yazan Sarayrah - Lead Guitar

Zaher Mdanat - Bass

Masis Mardirossian - Drums

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SICADIS Release Debut Blood of a Thousand Hearts

Kansas City's SICADIS (Si-Kay-Diss) have unleashed their debut full-length, Blood of a Thousand Hearts, upon the masses. After spending years establishing themselves as Kansas City's premier metal act, SICADIS are poised to break out with a vengeance. The band's tuneful and technically impressive blend aggressive melodic death metal and modern thrash makes for one unforgettable album. Album track "Through These Eyes" features  guest vocals from Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch.

Sail Hatin'
Insult to Injury
Voice of a Martyr
Soldiers of Damnation
No Sympathy
A Fading Light
My Redemption
Through These Eyes
Beneath the Swarm
Slay the Masses

Inspired by the cicada, which are known as the loudest insects in the world, the metallic roar of SICADIS can be heard for miles. In 2008 SICADIS accepted awards for Best Metal Band, Best Guitarist, Best Live Performance, and Best Guitar Duo at the Heavy Frequency Awards in Kansas City, MO. They have shared stages with such acts as Five Finger Death Punch, Testament, Unearth, A Life Once Lost, The Agony Scene, Suicide Silence, Exodus, Despised Icon, Napalm Death, Strapping Young Lad, and many more. The band combines the forces of Brett Carter-Vocals, Cam Fitzmaurice - Drums, Andrew Nagorski-Guitars, and Dustin Johnson - Bass, are all veterans of the Kansas City music scene. 

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RELEASE DATE, TRACK LISTING AND ARTWORK OF UPCOMING RAGNAROK ALBUM REVEALED

Details of the latest release from Norwegian Black Metallers RAGNAROK have been revealed today. Titled “Malediction”, the album, which was recorded, mixed and mastered by Devo (MARDUK) at his Endarker Studios in Sweden and produced by RAGNAROK and Devo, will be the band’s seventh full-length and it is set for release on Agonia Records on the 30^th October in Europe and the 6^th November in North America. “Malediction” will be available in three formats - Jewel Case CD, Digital Download and Limited Edition Vinyl which will come with an exclusive bonus track, with the first 100 copies available on brown vinyl and hand numbered. Artwork for “Malediction” is by Perversor and All band photos shot and edited by Jon Løvstad.

Track listing for“Malediction” as follows:
01. Blood of Saints
02. Demon in My View
03. Necromantic Summoning Ritual
04. Divide et Impera
05. (Dolce et Decorum Est) Pro Patria Mori
06. Dystocratic
07. Iron Cross – Posthumous
08. The Elevenfold Seal
09. Fade Into Obscurity
10. Sword of Damocles
11. Retribution (exclusive vinyl bonus track)

Formed in 1994 by drummer Jontho and then-bassist Jerv, RAGNAROK’s current lineup includes Jontho on drums, Hans Fyrst on vocals, DezeptiCunt on Bass and Bolverk on guitars. RAGNAROK will make their first live appearance in North America when they headline the Messe des Mortes Festival in Montreal, Canada, on the 24^th November. Next European appearance will be at the Metal Legacy festival in Stromstad, Sweden, on the 27^thOctober. More information about RAGNAROK can be found on the band's website.

Ten tracks from RAGNAROK can be heard below.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ragnarokofficial

Website: http://www.ragnarokhorde.com

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/RagnarokNorway

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ragnarokofficial

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ragnarok

ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/ragnarokhorde

Management: http://patriciathomasmanagement.com/

Management Contact: patriciathomas@btinternet.com

Label: http://www.agoniarecords.com 

For promo copies: info@agoniarecords.com

WORLD UNDER BLOOD unleashed new video "Into The Arms of Cruelty"

L.A. California Melodic Death Metal band WORLD UNDER BLOOD has unveiled a new official video for "Into The Arms of Cruelty." The track appears at latest full-length entitled "Tactical" released in July 26th, 2011 through Nuclear Blast Records.

"Violence towards children is an appalling, disgusting and unfortunately a rampant occurrence amongst millions of households." states Deron Miller. "WORLD UNDER BLOOD will always campaign to bring harsh reality straight to your senses, no matter how ugly and offensive, to bring awareness to its existence. Any misunderstanding that we condone any kind of despicable behavior like the variety found in this music video is false and idiotic."

Check out below.

1. A God Among the Waste

2. Into the Arms of Crueltys
3. Pyro-Compulsive
4. Dead and Still in Pain
5. Purgatory Dormitory
6. Under the Autumn Low
7. I Can't Stand His Name
8. Revere's Tears
9. Wake Up Dead (Megadeth Cover)