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Updates for the following bands/labels: Aima (GRC), Winterwolf (FIN), Pa Vesh En (BLR), Diocletian (NZL), Drakkar Productions (FRA), and Ordeals (USA).

Aima Streaming Debut Album

Via Press Release:

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Today, Greek black/death cult Αιμα (Aima) stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, τράγος (Tragos), at heavily trafficked web-portal CVLTNation.com. Set for international release on June 15th via Nuclear War Now! Productions on vinyl LP format, hear Aima‘s Tragos in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Although it was established in Athens, Greece in 2011, Aima has to this point not garnered a level of attention that is commensurate with the quality of its music. This is almost certainly due to the fact that its recorded output to date has been somewhat sparse, and that it has opted not to play live shows. Additionally, its members have been simultaneously involved in other cults of similarly irreverent purposes, such as Wargoat and Goat Synagogue, whose endeavors have also occupied their attention. With the release of Tragos (“Goat”), however, Aima is poised to make its formidable presence known on a much wider scale.  

The Greek moniker Αιμα, or “blood,” appropriately distills the band’s essence into the basic element of life and death. Similarly, and in a practice continued with this album, each of Aima’s previous solo releases, including its 2012 self-titled demo and ensuing 7” EP from 2014, σάρκα (“flesh”), has been branded unassumingly, allowing instead for the recording itself to deliver its potent message in greater splendor. 

Since the beginning, and continuing through the aforementioned releases and the more recent 2017 split with Supremative, the goal has been to continue the tradition of black metal first espoused by pioneers like Sarcófago, Beherit, and Blasphemy. Like these bands, Aima has infused a healthy dose of death metal influence into its craft, resulting in a sound that is not unlike that of its fellow Greek contemporaries and long-time NWN! stalwarts Embrace of Thorns. This parallel is also exemplified by the fact that the σάρκα EP was released on Archfiend Devilpig’s own Kill Yourself Productions, which serves as a testament to their mutual admiration. 

By Aima’s own admission, Tragos accentuates the death metal element even more so than previous releases. This shift was not made by conscious decision, but instead represents a natural progression in the band’s style. All eight tracks on the album were written in 2017 and 2018, subsequent to the release of the split with Supremative, which lends the recording a notable cohesion in its devastating, monolithic effect. Finally, credit is due to sound engineer Sotiris Laskaris, who was responsible for the production, mixing, and mastering that perfectly enhances this voluminous recording, a feat even more impressive considering it was captured in the band’s rehearsal room. 

With Tragos, Aima has clearly established itself as a worthy present-day torchbearer in the tradition of the most blasphemous of dark arts. Hear all of  it for yourself exclusively HERE, courtesy of CVLTNation.com.
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Winterwolf Streaming Return Album:

Via Press Release:

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Today, reanimated death metallers Winterwolf stream the entirety of their long-awaited second album, Lycanthropic Metal of Death, at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. Set for international release on June 14th via Svart Records, hear Winterwolf‘s Lycanthropic Metal of Death in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Winterwolf is death metal for fanatics by fanatics, played by men long possessed by the lust for old-school death metal. One of these poor souls goes by the name Corpse, of Jess and the Ancient Ones and Deathchain fame, and one being Abomanitor, also known as the leader of surrealist death metal cult Demilich.

Formed during the final years of the 1990s, Winterwolf gathered together in the countryside of eastern Finland to worship at the altar of death metal, but did not get past the demo stage when primus motorCorpse moved to the city and kicked off Deathchain, whose illustrious death-thrashing career still continues to this day.

However, the burning desire for vintage, slimy, rotten death metal sounds would not let Corpse lie, and one day he called forth his ancient cohorts of Winterwolf once again. A new cycle began in 2009, and with it a new album, the band’s debut, titled Cycle of the Werewolf.

Yet, it took another decade for the cycle to turn once more and for the band to create another burst of putrid decay. And so, from the forever-burning rotten pits of desolation, Winterwolf rise undead to resonate total death and lunacy. 

The band’s comeback album, Lycanthropic Metal of Death is a purist piece of late ’80s / early ’90s death metal performed in an underground DIY spirit and an almost punkish fervor for dirty but immensely catchy metal riffs.

Winterwolf‘s Lycanthropic Metal of Death will be released on June 14th via Svart Records on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats. Once again, the dead shall live, the living die, and musick shall untune the sky.

In the leadup to its international release tomorrow, hear Lycanthropic Metal of Death in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also see & hear the previously revealed video for “Brujo” HERE at Svart‘s official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE.
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New Pa Vesh En Material, Release Date Set for New Full-Length:

Via Press Release:

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Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 23rd as the international release date for Pa Vesh En‘s highly anticipated second album, Pyrefication, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

In little more than two years, this Belarusian enigma has built a sizable (and starkly terrifying) catalog, culminating in last year’s critically acclaimed Church of Bones debut album and, earlier this year, the Cryptic Rites of Necromancy EP, all under the aegis of Iron Bonehead. Thus far, Pa Vesh En has exhibited a stark ‘n’ unsettling style of black metal: from stifled-violence miserablism to seemingly formless drift, from bent-askew melodicism to echo-chamber murk, always with a tortured soul guiding everything, he’s almost effortlessly created a soundworld beyond compare – and has done so with the restlessness of a lost specter.

Restless as ever, Pa Vesh En prodigiously keeps apace with his tortured vision of black metal with a brand-new second album, Pyrefication. Ever aptly titled, Pyrefication is total spiritual meltdown: this is the veritable sound of the soul collapsing inward and dying a most exquisite death. To that, Pa Vesh En draws inspiration from within, and here locates a wobbly, ever-so-delicate balance between Cryptic Rites of Necromancy‘s ultraviolent hysteria and the murkier mystery of his earliest work, all done with spellbinding alchemy that makes for a miasmic 40-minute labyrinth. If anything, Pa Vesh En seems unsettlingly comfortable taking his muse wherever he wishes on Pyrefication, malforming and maiming any atmosphere he wishes whilst maintaining that beckoning-abyssward style of melodicism he’s made his own since his auspicious start.

Once again, Pa Vesh En hands you the matches for self-immolation – will you provide the kindling for Pyrefication? The first fire can be felt with the new track “Call of the Dead” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud.
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New Diocletian Track:

Nobody in New Zealand turned in their guns. Get fucked, hippy. New album, ‘Amongst the Flames of a Burning God,’ is out August 16th on Profound Lore. Impurath (Black Witchery/Irreverent) handled the vocals for this release.

Drakkar Records Bandcamp Page Abruptly Suspended:

It’s all embarrassing at this point.

Reading through the comments on the original thread, it would appear that people who placed orders through Drakkar’s Bandcamp page are now without their money and their orders.

Stop supporting digital formats. Bands and labels invested way too much in to the digital realm in the name of money.

Ordeals Premier Track From Upcoming 7″:

Via Forum/Press Release:

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Coming Summer 2019 from Stygian Black Hand 
“Choose Death”, the brand new EP from New York black/death metal duo ORDEALS! Featuring four brand new tracks in cadence with the hysteric paranoia of the doomsday pulse. ORDEALS have already established themselves as a rising force, sharing the stage with acts such as Acherontas, Gevurah, and Sargeist, and they also showcased their death mass at Covenant Festival in Montreal last year. Today, Stygian Black Hand premieres a brand new song entitled “A Throttled Dream”, from their upcoming 7″ EP “Choose Death”. Stream it here: 
https://stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/a … oose-death
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