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DEVOURING STAR, a rising Suomi supernova, shall manifest its debut album "Through Lung and Heart" through Daemon Worship Productions as both CD and LP.

The album will consist of five new manifestations, which decompose the structure of the Self in all forms. Death awaits... The eye opens!



Devouring Star - To Traverse The Black Flame

Enigmatic black metal cult NIGHTBRINGER have summoned forth the long-awaited new album "Ego Dominus Tuus". "Ego Dominus...", Latin for "I am your Lord", is as imposing and commanding as its title suggests. Recorded by the band and Dave Otero (COBALT, CEPHALIC CARNAGE), "Ego Dominus..." is an epic piece of ritualistic metal so dense and so regal that it's magic will continue to manifest for years to come. "Ego Dominus Tuus" is a monument to black metal at its most powerful, and one of the finest genre works to emerge in many years. Believe in the power of death!

CD released via Season Of Mist. Exclusive trifold DLP edition out soon via DWP.

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Nightbringer - The Witchfires Of Tubal Qayin

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Hear! The spear impales the gate!

DEVOURING STAR, a rising Suomi supernova, shall manifest its debut album "Through Lung and Heart" through Daemon Worship Productions as both CD and LP.

The album will consist of five new manifestations, which decompose the structure of the Self in all forms. Death awaits... The eye opens!

Cover artwork by Manuel Tinnemans of Comaworx.
Layout by Brianvdp.

Devouring Star - The Dreaming Tombs

Devouring Star - Decayed Son Of Earth

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Enigmatic Occult Swedish union of CHALICE OF BLOOD is back with a first feature length release. After a classic 2005 demo and two brilliant splits (with ARKHA SVA and ISRATHOUM) comes a work of several years of occult growth and maturation. "Helig, Helig, Helig" appears as a violent and intense storm, with a fair share of obscure yet not overpowering melodies. Pitch-black aural assault, with production by MARDUK's Lars Broddesson and layout by ever-evolving digital genius of Brianvdp.

Manifested in a form of a 12'' MLP, to preserve (for now?) a CD-less discography tradition of CHALICE OF BLOOD.

Chalice of Blood - Transcend the Endless

Three years after the fantastic "Black Poison and Shared Wounds" ISRATHOUM returns! The trio of VxInfr, Arvath and W.uR delivers a wicked and poisonous audial assault with a new MLP record, entitled "Antru Kald". Originally started as a conceptual project as far back as 1998, it is only now - 17 years later - revealed and unleashed upon mankind. It represents all that defines ISRATHOUM: it adheres to the roots, but doesn't let itself be entangled in the vines, instead developing and evolving upon them into a formation, that is unlike anything else in the scene. This conceptual piece was recorded over several years, with help from Mories of black industrial movement GNAW THEIR TONGUES, who is also responsible for the cover art. The mastering was once again done by Kark of DØDSENGEL.

Comes in a trifold digisleeve and, eventually, as a one-sided MLP with a laser etching.

To be released on the 30th of April 2015.

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ISRATHOUM - Deathmasks Inheritor

From the upcoming SERPENT NOIR album "Erotomysticism", to be released through Daemon Worship in April 2015 as a digiCD, an LP edition is set to follow.

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Tracklisting:

1. Path of the Raven
2. The Veritable Red Dragon
3. Ayin
4. Al Runa
5. Desert of Azazel
6. The Initiatrice of A'arab Zaraq
7. The Dioscuri of Darkness
8. Ayahuasca
9. Mephistophelian Pacts

SERPENT NOIR - The Veritable Red Dragon

/DWP040/ GRAFVITNIR - "Necrosophia"

Daemon Worship is proud to announce that the upcoming third album of GRAFVITNIR will be unleashed through us on CD and LP in the upcoming months.

"Necrosophia" consists of 7 compositions, each dealing with the vast enigma of the Beyond and the opening of the eye of Lucifer. Scandinavian Occult Black Metal, anthems to the Lycanthropic essence and the Serpentine Mysteries.
Recorded over 2 years, with each tone and lyric perfected to suit the whole, it could be considered a sibling offering to "Semen Serpentis", yet there are many differences throughout as well. 8 unique drawn pieces, representing the 8 legged Spider Goddess, were suffered out through Ubertragic Art during the past 1,5 years, set to crown this jewel.

To be released as a 6-panel digipack CD with a 12-page booklet and a majestic heavy gatefold LP.

Track list:

1. Kenaz
2. Awakening of The Dragon
3. Vessels of Serpent Fire
4. Varulvsnatt
5. Fires of Golachab
6. Elddop
7. Into the Vast Forever

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GRAFVITNIR - Kenaz

/DWP052/ IBEX ANGEL ORDER - "I"

We're proud to announce that the debut IBEX ANGEL ORDER album, entitled simply "I", is set to be released by the hands of Daemon Worship on CD and LP in the upcoming months.

The album presents itself as an Occult Black Metal seance, assembled of hypnotizing riffs and ritual chants, with violent percussion framing it. Hymns to Abraxas. A stylistically unique offering, which evolved from FUNERAL GOAT, yet turned into something much more refined. Featuring ex-members of SAURON (from the ashes of which FUNERAL GOAT originally awakened) and members of VERBUM VERUS, PLANET AIDS and ABYSMAL DARKENING. Featuring artwork by Ubertragic Art, this masterpiece was mastered by the renowned Greg Chandler of ESOTERIC and LYCHGATE fame, who also produced albums for such bands as CRUCIAMENTUM, GRAVE MIASMA and MACABRE OMEN.

To be released as a black polycarbonate CD in a digipack with a 12-page booklet and a majestic heavy gatefold LP with illustrations printed with metallic golden foil.

The tracklist is as follows:

1. Intro
2. Beyond the Seventh
3. Origin of Spheres
4. Unbegotten Father
5. Numberless am I
6. Serpent of Assiah
7. The Terrible One
8. Into Pleroma
9. Unbroken Idol
10. Domedon Doxomedon

The album's release date will be revealed shortly.

Follow IBEX ANGEL ORDER: https://www.facebook.com/ibexangelorder

IBEX ANGEL ORDER - The Terrible One

/DWP040/ GRAFVITNIR - "Necrosophia"

Daemon Worship is proud to announce that the upcoming third album of GRAFVITNIR will be unleashed through us on CD and LP in the upcoming months.

"Necrosophia" consists of 7 compositions, each dealing with the vast enigma of the Beyond and the opening of the eye of Lucifer. Scandinavian Occult Black Metal, anthems to the Lycanthropic essence and the Serpentine Mysteries.
Recorded over 2 years, with each tone and lyric perfected to suit the whole, it could be considered a sibling offering to "Semen Serpentis", yet there are many differences throughout as well. 8 unique drawn pieces, representing the 8 legged Spider Goddess, were suffered out through Ubertragic Art during the past 1,5 years, set to crown this jewel.

To be released as a 6-panel digipack CD with a 12-page booklet and a majestic heavy gatefold LP.

Track list:

1. Kenaz
2. Awakening of The Dragon
3. Vessels of Serpent Fire
4. Varulvsnatt
5. Fires of Golachab
6. Elddop
7. Into the Vast Forever

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/Grafvitnir.Official

GRAFVITNIR - Elddop

"ILL OMEN - Decrepit Heart of the Shadow-Sun" from the debut full-length album "Divinity Through Un-creation" released by: www.adverseordermusic.com

ILL OMEN - Decrepit Heart of the Shadow-Sun

At long last, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE are about to unchain their highly anticipated third album, Black Sun Unbound. Three years have passed since the release of their critically acclaimed Almighty Arcanum, which saw these long-running Aussie tyrants evolving well beyond their blackthrashing beginnings and locate a near-perfect balance between aggression and atmosphere. With Black Sun Unbound, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE have perhaps found the balance - between not only aggression and atmosphere, but passion and poison, power and patience, sheer vengeful violence and spiraling night-sky melodicism - in the process delivering a potently BLACK METAL record which emphasizes both titular elements of that genre. In fact, the album title itself bespeaks the brilliance brimming from the quartet here, as each of these ten tracks spills forth a blinding sensation of absolute occult energy, each distinct track distilled into a greater, wholly diabolical totality. Further evidence of such is compounded by the song titles, as well: among them, "World Encircler," "Transform the Aether," "Deathless Dreaming," and the telltale "Revere the Pyre." Fittingly, the production is clear and cutting without sacrificing an ounce of grit on which DENOUNCEMENT PYRE have built their throne these past 13 years. With the band set to perform their first North American live ritual at this year's Maryland Deathfest, there's no better time to behold Black Sun Unbound!

Sophrosune

Transform the Aether

Revere the Pyre

September Malevolence - ...Accidents Happen So Fast

Omega Massif - Aura

I fell upon Black Sheep Wall’s first record I Am God Songs by merely perusing Bandcamp. I was pleasantly surprised by their filthy sounding sludgy grooves and towering intensity. So of course I have been anticipating the release of their sophomore LP No Matter Where It Ends for some time now and I am sure a lot of you have been too. But does this new record hold up to the band’s debut offering?


The album opens up with dirty feedback that makes way for earth shattering sludgy guitars and completely filthy basslines on “Agnostic Demon”. This track is eight minutes of pure sonic intensity that will rattle what little brains you have left. The band definitely starts off strong. No Matter Where It Ends features some of the most ungodly heavy riffs known to mankind and combined with low end growls, it can be pretty terrifying. “Virtruvian God” is the only track on the record that is less than five minutes long and in its short one and half minute duration it pummels you with dissonant, slow building riffs that are sure to give you a heart attack. “Torrential” also features some deliciously nasty riffs that Neurosis and Eyehategod wish they would have written. But the album does feature some melodic moments to my surprise. “Liminality” and “Black Church” are extremely heavy and foreboding but they feature a lot of post-metal esque melodicism that make the tracks oddly beautiful at times. But let’s be honest, you’re not listening to this band to be lulled by gorgeous sounds. No, you’re listening to Black Sheep Wall to be wrapped in a rug of sludge metal and beaten to death with a hammer of pulse pounding, blood pumping riffs that can scare young children. No Matter Where It Ends provides all of this and more.

Great riffs aside, by the time I was half way through with this album I was drained. Six to eight minute long tracks of pure sludge can be extremely rewarding and cathartic. But some of the tracks on this thing become so repetitive and uninspired that they bored me to tears. “Personal Prophet” for is six minutes of spaced out chugging that leads nowhere and just sounds like the product of lazy, run of the mill sound writing. “Flesh Tomb” is another one that irked me to no end. It starts of pretty strong with these ridiculous heavy, dissonant grooves but around the halfway mark the band begins to repeat the same chugging section over and over for the rest of the song’s duration; which is twelve minutes by the way.

No Matter Where It Ends vomits a plethora of vile, thunderous riffs into your ear canals. Black Sheep Wall makes The Acacia Strain and similar bands look like a bunch of hacks. But while this album has a lot of delicious heaviness to offer, it fails at times to repetitive song structures and apathetic riffs. But this is just my opinion. What do you think? via: americanaftermath.net

Black Sheep Wall - Torrential

With Vision is the second full-length album release by Place of Skulls. The album was released in 2003 on the Southern Lord Records label. The recording of this album was marked by numerous personnel changes before the final staff was assembled. This is the only Place of Skulls album to feature Scott Weinrich (of The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan fame) on vocals and second guitar, as he left soon after to concentrate on The Hidden Hand. Writing credits are far more distributed among the band members than its predecessor, wherein all songs were written solely by Griffin.

Place Of Skulls - Nothing Changes

Cough is one of those bands that you can’t not run into once you get into doom.  They will be in your face as you take your first steps into the vast, miserable ocean of the genre, and their name is very present and out there.  There are two types of bands that demand this kind of attention simply by existing: those that are hyped too much and are made out to be this big thing, and those that are this big because they have merit.

Cough falls into the second category.  The merit in their blend of the art of making misery is what sets them so high, and, for the record, Cough is one of the finest bands out there, period.  Without sliding any further down the slippery slope of fan-bias, let us continue.

At the core of Cough’s music is filth and misery.  The centerpiece of every song is the down-tuned guitars agonizingly churning out low-tempo riffs of dooooooooom - chord-slams, feedback, sludge-like lurches forward and snail-pace grooves.  The bass supports the guitar admirably.  The drumming, especially given the very low speeds at which most songs go about their business, is astonishing, as it finds a way to play with the otherwise very steady rhythms.  Another good thing is the vocals.  Admittedly, the vocals have two main modes, throaty, sort of mid-pitched screaming and the clean ‘singing.’ The clean vocals have a very good range, from doomy, stretched-out shouting to gentle croons, but the mid-pitched bellows of daemons is what sells the vocals.

“Sigillum Luciferi” is one of those albums that is impossible to break down song-by-song.  Oh, I can do it, alright, it just wouldn’t be any good. Instead, I will focus on this album as a whole, which is where my first point lies.  “Sigillum Luciferi” isn’t a collection of songs, it is an album.  It is a coherent whole and at no point do you believe you are listening to anything other than a Cough record.

The atmosphere is miserable, and I do mean the black-hue-and-haze, overbearing, no-hope-in-life, worn-out-in-a-back-alley miserable.  It’s sinister, slow darkness feels like slowly being choked and worse still, liking it.  It’s like loving a noose in its filth, and it’s delicious.  Of course, this is aided by how the riffs themselves are structured, as each one seems to have been tailor-fitted to induce as much misery as possible.  Therein, Cough’s strength appears: “Sigillum Luciferi” is a very refined, very well-thought out effort.  Each song is structured in the way each riff is structured – careful, though natural and heavy without fail.  Each section is refined into a hypnotic, nigh-ritualistic dirge made of repetition and back-and-forth between the few riffs.  This same structure applies to where the songs are placed: after the head-crushing pure beauty of “Hole in the Infinite,” for instance, we are offered solace in the lumbering, sludge-like riff and even pacing of “288 Years of Sin” which, in itself, leads to the utterly lethargic “Northern Plague.”

“Northern Plague” is followed up by a perfect example of how in “Sigillum Luciferi” each part transitions smoothly into each other, so much so that the entire song feels like the natural output of a guitar/bass/drum-strapped beast let loose in his natural habitat.  See, the fifth track, “Shallow Grave” is a case-in-point.  It begins as a doomy Cough dirge: nice monolith riff, slow pacing, but, after a few minutes, the band teases with a bit of playful groove in the riff, before returning to the starter. Then, out of nowhere, the pace suddenly hits an upper-mid-tempo and the band launches into catchy, foot-stomping grooves, and embellish this section further with a burning solo before returning to the initial riff, and then slowly degenerating that into feedback and noise by gradually slowing it down.  It’s genius!

However, for those that may think this is a riff-tastic doom-fest: sorry, but the riffs on this beast are few.  But never mind that, because here, less is undoubtedly more.  See, it’s one thing to make ten, twelve-minute songs with the same two riffs, quite another to make both count in such a way that you are left satisfied.  Returning to the earlier point about structure, the songs themselves have a peculiar quality, in that you can safely drift away from a song, let your mind waver, and it will find a way to snap you back to attention, and you won’t wonder what song you’re on.  That’s a rare and incredible feat, in my book.

A further point emerges right here.  Cough use a lot of feedback.  Hell, the opener, “Killing Fields” is about three and a half minutes of feedback cut by single chords and single drum hits.  In the other songs, like “Shallow Grave”s closing salvoes or some of “Lyssavirus,” the band use feedback to gradually eat away at the remnants of a riff until nothing is left. Their ability to refine that noise into actual riffs and doing it so naturally and so without abrasive transitions is a very good trait of this album.  Further, a convention that was present in “Ritual Abuse” also makes an appearance (in “Lyssavirus” specifically) which is to say that before beginning the initial riff, the guitar plays a stripped-down, almost test-tab version of it for a bit.  It’s a nice trick that creates a jammy impression and fits the album.

SO, OVERALL, WHY SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO THIS? Easy.  It’s one of the best doom records out there, along with “Ritual Abuse.” That’s simply it, no two ways about it.  This record is cut from a different cloth, and cut out to be well fucking worth the almost-hour (57 minutes, to be precise) that it will take from your life in the first listen, and many more almost-hours it will take by virtue of its sheer addictive properties. It doesn’t stray far from where it is comfortable, yeah, but you wouldn’t want it to, anyway. I don’t know how else I can say “perfect,” really, so stop reading this, and go listen to this album.  Go.  Now. (via doommantia.com) 


Cough - Shallow Grave

I have been a Dark Castle fan for a minute, so when I heard they had a new record coming out I was stoked, but at the same time I had very high expectations. With the release of their new album Surrender To All Life Beyond Form, out now via Profound Lore, they fucking blew my mind. Dark Castle has stretched what we call doom & sludge to encompass many more layers that are not usually associated with these genres. I knew something was different by the way the first track, “Surrender To All Life Beyond Form,” started. It begins with this killer dirge bit, then this almost 1st Nations chant comes in, and then on a wave of strange feedback, super distorted blackened vocals kick in – from that point, they had me. Surrender To All Life Beyond Form is a real dark tapestry of sonics, so you will hear something new every time. At certain points when I listen to this album I get the sense as though the songs are alive & breathing, & are trying to tell me something. Dark Castle is heavy as ever on this album, but they are using space as an effect unto itself – they allow the effects they create to transform many times before they introduce another effect. The song “Learning To Unlearn” is haunting experimental doom that explores the textures of bleeps, piano & cavernous vocals that manifest their apocalyptic visions. The emotional impact that the song “To Hide Is To Die” has is fucking transcendental, & Stevie’s singing voice on this track is sublime. With this album, Dark Castle have done what I like to hear bands do – take chances & develop their imagination outside of their comfort zone. The next time I see this band in person I’m going to walk up to them, give them a huge hug & say job well freaking done! It gets better: they are hitting the road this summer with YOB. So after the jump, get all of the tour details & some other surprises. (via cvltnation.com) 


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