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Today’s update includes the following bands: Innumerable Forms (USA), Watchtower (USA), Defecrator (USA), The Ominous Circle (PRT), Engulf (USA), Shed the Skin (USA), Invocation Spells (CHL), Outline (USA), Temple Desecration (POL), Asagraum (NLD), Mortuary Drape (ITA), Imago Mortis (ITA), and Equitant (USA).

Innumerable Forms debut album, Punishment in Flesh, is scheduled for release on August 17th, 2018, through Profound Lore Records. Planned formats are digital download, CD, and vinyl LP. Profound Lore has issued the following press release:

Massachusetts based death metal force INNUMERABLE FORMS have completed their much anticipated devastating debut LP “Punishment In Flesh”. Formed in 2007 by mastermind Justin DeTore (Sumerlands, Magic Circle, Mind Eraser), a veteran of the Boston hardcore/power violence scene, as a solo project to bring forth a vision of doom-ridden, dark brutal death metal with the spirit of the early ‘90s. Since inception INNUMERABLE FORMS have already generated quite the cult following over the years with their live shows supporting a repertoire only consisting of the “Dark Worship” 7”EP, a split with Blessed Offal, and the “Frozen To Death” comp cassette. Now with “Punishment In Flesh”, INNUMERABLE FORMS will harness the authentic feeling of true death metal doom, darkness, and fury with total disregard for the scene today.With DeTore pretty much handling mostly all instruments himself on previous INNUMERABLE FORMS recordings, “Punishment In Flesh” sees DeTore assemble a full band lineup. INNUMERABLE FORMS on “Punishment In Flesh” include DeTore (vocals/guitars), his co-writing partner/guitarist Jensen Ward (Iron Lung), guitarist Chris Ulsh (Mammoth Grinder, Power Trip), bassist Doug Cho (The Rival Mob), and drummer Connor Donnegan (Genocide Pact).

Featuring artwork by Seth Goodkind, track listing for “Punishment In Flesh” goes as follows:

1. Intruders
2. Punishment In Flesh
3. Petrified
4. Purity’s Demand
5. Reality
6. Re-Contaminated
7. Stress Starvation
8. Joyless
9. Firmament
10. Meaning

Noise Records has announced July 13th, 2018, as the release date for Watchtower’s Control and Resistance reissue on limited-edition purple vinyl. More information here.

Drakkar Productions has announced, what they’ve declared as, their final band signing for 2018-2019 in the form of Defecrator. Defecrator’s debut Abortion of Humanity is scheduled for a 2019 release.

The Ominous Circle and Scorched will be touring the United States in late July. Flyer below:

Engulf will be releasing “Gold and Rust” through Everlasting Spew. Scheduled release is July 13th, 2018.

Shed the Skin have set July 27th, 2018 as the official release date of their second full-length album, We of Scorn. The new record is being released through Hell’s Headbangers Records in digital, CD, cassette, and limited-edition vinyl (111 pieces). Check out the new material below:

Invocation Spells will be teaming up with Outline for an 11 date American tour starting in late June. Flyer and dates below:

Temple Desecration’s debut album is slated for release through Iron Bonehead Productions on July 13th, 2018. The following press release has been issued:

Today, black/death mavericks Temple Desecration premiere the new track “Dominion of Darkness” at heavily trafficked web-portal CVLTNation.com. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos, set for international release on July 13th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Temple Desecration‘s “Dominion of Darkness” in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Since Temple Desecration‘s beginnings in 2011, this mysterious Polish cult have been a study in refined ugliness. Prizing quality over quantity, each release has been exacting, yet executed with animalistic abandon. It began in 2012 with the very-aptly-titled Abhorrent Rites demo – which Iron Bonehead later released on 12″ vinyl, in 2015 – and carried forward to the dread expanses of the Communion Perished EP in 2014. There, at just two songs in a swift 13 minutes, Temple Desecration indeed desecrated by-now-passe “bestial metal” conventions into something angular and truly overwhelming, incensed by the form’s latent power but focusing it into an ever-roiling maelstrom that was worlds away – and suggested, even, other worlds.

With the stage thus set, a whole four years later, Temple Desecration return to maximize that enviable potential with their first full-length, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos. Massive in every measure, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos is indeed a whirlwind, but any chaos extant in the band’s sound has been excised for locked-in, monged-out hypnosis. It’s a tradeoff that works in spades, as Temple Desecration‘s vile, virulent pulse becomes more patient and yet more mesmerizing, eventually devouring the listener whole – or at least sucking said listener into a black hole, many worlds away. The more expanded song structures first explored on Communion Perished are here finessed even further, building new pillars of pustulent terror and crushingly physical tension: at five songs in 38 minutes, the sheer density and solar weight of Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos feels far more expansive than its compact runtime suggests.

These advancements aside, Temple Desecration have also managed to make their mangling of the bestial idiom more ritualistic, more ceremonial. That pulse may still be tethered to black/death traditionalism – it is METAL, after all – but the way this cult warps their riffs into slithering sensations of sound elevates Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos above the mongrel hordes listlessly flying that “bestial metal” banner. In short, there is transcendentalism coursing through every minute of the album, and Temple Desecration have hereby unlocked its boundless enormity.

Gaze into its cover art – faintly, deeply, whichever – and begin to contemplate the enormity of Temple Desecration. For these Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos stretch beyond The Beyond… Continue stretching exclusively HERE, courtesy of CVLTNation.com. Begin stretching with the previously revealed “Blood Offering” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

1. Nameless Hordes
2. Entering the Void
3. Dominion of Darkness
4. Covenant
5. Blood Offering

Mortuary Drape is touring America from late June into late July with Volahn. The flyer below is a very early draft, so be sure to check around because I believe most of the TBA dates have been filled:

Asagraum will be playing a small string of shows in America come mid-December. Confirmed dates below:

Imago Mortis has announced work on a new album, slated for release through Drakkar Productions. Drakkar Productions have issued the following statement:

A new album is in the works for Italian Act IMAGO MORTIS, following ‘Carnicon’ completed 5 years ago.

IMAGO MORTIS is Black Occult Metal marking 25 years of existence, exploring themes such as inquisitions, witchcraft, ancient legends and heresy.

DRAKKAR Productions and the band are currently working to provide a new edition for sold out ‘Una Foresta Dimenticata’ on Digipack format, and will include bonus tracks.

A new sub-label, Faust, has announced intentions to reissue the first Equitant album. The statement has been issued:

The first release on Faust, a dungeon synth sub-label of Old Captain. The first US dungeon synth recording back from 1993 by a great artist, Equitant, formerly a member of Absu. The album in fact features his former bandmates Proscriptor (flute), Shaftiel (voice) and Black Mass Prayer aka Black Massith providing the synths. A 10 track solo debut of a genuine occvlt tradition. Original demo tracks + unreleased tracks from 1993. Rarity. More news TBA.

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Thank you. You can wipe your butt now.

-A.Krause