"Brazilian Death Metal juggernaut Escarnium returns with its 4th full length album "Inexorable Entropy" featuring 9 tracks of unrelenting, blast beats driven, infernal death metal!
Formed in 2008 in Salvador, Brazil, Escarnium emerged as a five-piece band committed to crafting raw, visceral death metal fueled by anguish and nihilistic ideas. Over the years, the band has grown to become one of the leading names in the Brazilian metal scene. Now performing as a quartet, Escarnium continues to expand its reach and impact in the extreme music world..."
"Icelandic/US Black Metal entity MARTRÖÐ – surrounding core members A.P. (SKÁPHE) and H.V. (WORMLUST) – proudly announce their debut album will be released on December 12th. Following up sole previous release, 2016's lauded "Transmutation of Wounds" EP, the band's inaugural full-length "Draumsýnir eldsins" ("Dream Visions of the Fire") blazes through four transcendent, maniacal tracks that revel in organised chaos and infernal surrealism, as swarming Black Metal bludgeon meets avant-Classical and psychotropic noise..."
"In a long overdue return, Portugal's The Ominous Circle rise again from the mist with their sophomore album "Cloven Tongues of Fire", a deeper descent into the great, endless chasms. A maelstrom of fire and relentless chaos that defies everything in this age of empty standards and sterile paradigms, the new full-length effort represents their darkest, most intense and uncompromising manifest to date, both a witness to the wickedness of iniquity and a tribute to the arts of the extreme.
Sophisticated yet raw, dynamic and fierce, presenting a different approach to songwriting while continuing the path of 2017's acclaimed "Appalling Ascension", "Cloven Tongues of Fire" delivers 43 minutes of black-infused Death metal with monolithic slabs of doom. A defaced abomination of low-tuned impious riffing, dissonant patterns and wildfire rhythms, from the manic blasting of “Through Tunnels Ablaze” to the gargantuan epic that is “Utterance of the Formless”, forming a tome of Dark Death Metal necromancy."
"Linnea Hjertén’s second album, “Steg för steg” (‘Step by Step’), offers both continuation and departure. It extends the ritual ambient and folk foundations of “Nio systrar” while opening new paths through lyrics and expanded instrumentation. Each track feels like a threshold: a step deeper into vulnerability, a step further into the unknown.
Traditional instruments anchor the record without confining it. Nyckelharpa and moraharpa – especially in minor modes and long, sighing notes – draw out a distinctly Swedish melancholy. Hjertén favours old tools in new contexts: keeping traditions alive, connecting to those who came before, and working with what the land provides.
Layers of voice carry the emotional weight; arrangements bloom from drones, framedrum pulse, and the hush between tones. Hjertén also draws on kulning, the ancient Nordic herding call, which rises briefly in pieces such as “Blodmåne” and “Alltet är intet”, reshaped through her own expression.
She records and mixes everything herself, ensuring an intimacy that seeps through every tone. Minimal means, maximal presence. Songs carried by breath and purpose rather than studio sheen. The result is folk-rooted Nordic ambient that places essence over ornament: step by step, surrender by surrender."
"THAUMATURGY was spawned in the American Midwest by an enigmatic musician that goes under the alias KT, driven by the urge to play a vicious blend of dark, doom-laden, chasmic, and cavernous death metal, taking influence from a wide range of outsider music. THAUMATURGY attempt to push the boundaries beyond the genre's forerunners in order to invoke contemplation upon the super-mundane realms that their name implies. Previously an outright death-doom metal act with a darkened edge, the band has morphed into an entity whose musical offering is crammed with furious, ripping riffs, contrasted by crushing, echoing doom passages, as well as a surprising element of dark melody, evoking comparisons to the more diabolical early bands from Sweden, such as Necrophobic and Grotesque, although combining that approach with the tenebrosity and the murkiness of Incantation and Krypts, the violent and chaotic assault of Morbid Angel, the aggressiveness of Dutch bands like Sinister and Pestilence, the modern approach of acts like Grave Miasma and Cruciamentum, and even the sheer lightlessness of bands such as Demoncy and Adversarial."
