Updates for the following bands: Celestial Grave (FIN), Arghoslent (USA), Grand Belial’s Key (USA), Sigil (CAN), and Iteru (BEL).
Sigil to Release New Demo in July:
Via press release:
Hailing from the fertile Calgary scene, Sigil erupt with a lacerating noise. Seemingly hydra-headed, the band submerge any possible classification beneath a frail veneer of black metal and death metal, weaved together with alchemical magick and a brazen disregard for convention.
At last, a long silence comes to an end with the release of Sigil‘s Demonstration MMXIX. With the band’s last activity being the release of Mutagen in 2013, the intervening years have allowed Sigil to transform into an esoteric vessel of sound. These demo tracks serve as a glimpse into the band’s forthcoming third album, Nether, and demonstrate Sigil‘s newly refined voice – a voice whose every utterance is meaningless before an intoxicating abyss. Attacking, bleary, nuanced, hideous, glorious…a whole host of contrasts aptly describe the band’s blossoming void.
Nether will soon follow, under the auspices of Funeral Trance. In the meantime, drown in the luxurious depths of Demonstration MMXIX ‘s eldritch expanses and herald Sigil‘s grand re-arrival.In the meantime, stream the entirety of Demonstration MMXIX at Sigil‘s Bandcamp HERE. Preorder info can be found HERE.
—
New Arghoslent and Grand Belial’s Key? Great interview:
https://gapingthroats.blogspot.com/2019/05/grand-belials-key-arghoslent-interview.html?m=1
—
Iteru Teases Track from Upcoming Debut:
Via Press Release:
—
Celestial Grave Release Track Ahead of Debut Release:
Via Press Release:
—
Today, Finnish black metal sorcerers Celestial Grave premiere the new track “Secular Flesh” at heavily trafficked web-portal CVLTNation.com. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album of the same name, Secular Flesh, set for international release on July 5th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Celestial Grave‘s “Secular Flesh” in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Hideous and haunting, Celestial Grave arrive in a league utterly their own. In 2016, they released their debut demo, Burial Ground Trance, via Iron Bonehead. While that demo portrayed the band firmly in line with their filthy Finnish brethren, it breathed a certain deliriously melancholic aspect that pointed toward greater things to come. Alas, even greater things came a year later with the two-song Pvtrefactio EP, again via Iron Bonehead: still purely and unapologetically BLACK METAL, here the duo seethed with an incensed intensity that illuminated even the dankest crypt.
Seemingly brought from the beyond, without seeking salvation or enlightenment, Celestial Grave bury themselves even deeper into the heart of abyss with their long-awaited debut album, Secular Flesh. Both emblematic of their sound to date and striking upon even bolder expressions of it, the 32-minute Secular Flesh comprises four equally epic, deliriously enveloping songs that draw the listener into Celestial Grave‘s unique world and refuse to relent. Madness and melody are writ large across this Secular Flesh, moving with portentous passion and a certain frayed-ends-of-sanity mesmerism; the production is suitably murky yet clear, densely layered yet seemingly bare-bones. In that, above all, Secular Flesh conveys a mysteriousness that’s extremely difficult to achieve in black metal in 2019, all while laying their souls wide open. Or, simply, that Celestial Grave have achieved an elevated state of songwriting that puts the band in a class populated by precious few nowadays.
Hark, for Celestial Grave hereby offer the path of Secular Flesh…how thick is your skin? Find out with the new title track “Secular Flesh” exclusively HERE, courtesy of CVLTNation.com. Further find out with the previously revealed “Lamentation” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud.
—
Ok, thanks. Leave now.
apanthropy 
Leave a comment