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Death Metal Act Decorpsetated Premier Album

decorpsetated
/d?'kôrps??tad?d/

adjective
adjective: decorpsetated

(of a sentient being) to have had one’s corpse
violently and abruptly removed from their soul.
“this decorpsetated soul may never find its way
without a vessel”

Track by track, Human Words peals back the layers of human selfishness. With teeth gnashed and claws drawn, this vicious account of raw humanity will leave you questioning how we still exist, as well as whether we should… oh, and it rips pretty hard, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The artist had this to say about the album:

“As musicians we often end up with seemingly endless folders of unreleased music for one reason or another. You always tell yourself you’ll put together an album but you never do. So I started chipping away at a collection of my favourites with absolutely no vision of how it would turn out. 3 years later I’m sitting back in my studio listening to songs I thought were about greed, war, and extinction, only to be slammed with the reality that these were in fact metaphorical manifestations of my own emotional bullshit. In that moment I knew these stories had to be shared. What if someone else is facing similar struggles and trying to interpret them through a similar lens?”

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Bloodbound Releases "1066" Lyric Video

This summer, on July 7, 2023, Swedish power metal force Bloodbound will release their hotly-anticipated, new studio offering "Tales From The North!" The band's tenth album will be coming out as a 2-CD digipak including a live CD, a strictly limited box set as well as coloured vinyl LPs; the pre-sale has just recently started via AFM Records here.

After first album singles, "Odin’s Prayer" and “The Raven's Cry", today, Bloodbound are premiering a music video for the album closing track "1066". Fredrik Bergh adds: "1066 is one of the more epic tracks on the album. One of my favorite songs from "Tales from the North"

Tales From The North was produced by Bloodbound, and was mixed and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren (Amorphis, Overkill, Sabaton) at the Swedish ‘Black Lounge Studios’. The cover artwork was created by Péter Sallai (Hammerfall, Powerwolf & many more). More...

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Venom Inc. Announces North American Tour Dates

Extreme metal pioneers, Venom Inc., are proud to announce their return to the US this summer for their "Better To Reign In Hell" tour. The trek will kick off on June 22 in Dallas Texas and make its way up the west coast performing in Phoenix, San Diego, and Seattle before concluding in Denver on July 9.

Joining the band on the summer run are Exhumed (6/22-7/2), Acid Witch, Enforced, and Wormwitch (7/3-7/8).

Venom Inc. comments: "Legions of Hell!! Finally rescheduled after our red tape fiasco (Thank you immigration!) now we are ready and on fire!! Standby for intense and all our brutal furious assault!!!! With our amazing support card, there’s no escape now… come join us and lose your mind and remember THERE’S ONLY BLACK! SEE YOU VERY SOON for PART I."

Venom Inc. will be touring in support of their latest offering, There’s Only Black. Their sophomore album is a no-holds-barred assault on bigoted hypocrisy and conformism in today's society, as well as a demonstration of musical superiority delivered by some of the genre's true originators.

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The Arcane Order Set To Release New Album In June

Danish extreme metal quintet, The Arcane Order, return with their fourth album "Distortions From Cosmogony," to be released 9th June via Black Lion Records.

The group celebrates with releasing their first single from the album, the monumental "Cry Of Olympus." The first new music featuring Kim Song Sternkopf (Møl) on vocals and Bastian Thusgaard (Soilwork) on drums, you can watch the video for "Cry of Olympus" below.

"Distortions From Cosmogony" is an album for which the word 'epic' does little justice. Its singular style combines the extreme, the grandiose, technical and melodic while telling the story of mankind’s eternal existential conflict between autonomy and submission.
Lead singer Kim Song Sternkorpf states of the song:

"The 'Cry of Olympus' is the first single from the album and probably the most progressive of the songs on the album. We purposely wanted to create a song that would work well as a first impression of the new album and a gateway into the rest of the songs on the album.

"Can man handle true power or will it be his undoing? 'Cry of Olympus' is as classical as a tale of hubris gets. A mortal challenging fate by aspiring to climb as high as one can get to fall just as far. Because all heroes can fail us. That’s what makes us human." More...

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Mortemia Reveals "The Endless Shore" Lyric Video

Morten Veland (Sirenia, Mortemia and founder of Tristania) released the second Mortemia song from "The Covid Aftermath Sessions" today. The track features Ulli Perhonen on guest vocals and Nils Courbaron on solo guitar and it is available on all digital platforms as of today the 31st of March 2023. The video will premiere on Mortemia’s official YouTube channel at 17:00 hours CET.

Morten Veland: "I am proud and honoured to introduce Ulli Perhonen and my great friend and Sirenia band mate Nils Courbaron as my special guests for ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’. This new song is called ‘The Endless Shore’ and will be available on all digital platforms on the 31st of March 2023. Ulli has a really beautiful and expressive classical voice that fits perfectly for this track, and Nils have made an epic guitar solo for the song. I feel truly privileged and thankful to have Ulli and Nils on board this project, and I am really pleased to be sharing this song with you all. You can enjoy ‘The Endless Shore’ on all digital platforms now."

Ulli Perhonen: "I'm proud to be part of Mortemia's brand new song "The Endless Shore". I've been following the project for a while now, listening to brilliant collaborations with awesome vocalists like Zora Cock, Heidi Parviainen, Madeleine Liljestam and many many more. I was surprised and thankful that Morten asked me to do the vocals here and that I can now also contribute to the Mortemia songs, along with Nils Courbaron on solo guitar. It’s a great honour for me and I hope you will like Mortemia’s soundscape combined with Nils’s and my contribution. Enjoy the song and let us take you to the endless shore …" More...

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Tanith Unveils New Music Video

New York City's Tanith - Russ Tippins (guitars, vocals), Cindy Maynard (bass, vocals), and Keith Robinson (drums) - will release their new album, "Voyage," on April 21 via Metal Blade.

The album was recorded and mastered on 24-track analog tape and has never been digitized from recording to pressing. Also, fans will recognize Tippins from NWOBHM legends, Satan.

Today, the band has shared the video for "Olympus By Dawn", stating, "On 'Olympus,' we were looking for a different dynamic with a clean guitar riff woven around heavy bass and drums," the band says. "The lyric relates the feeling of performing while sleep-deprived, something we experienced on our last tour. With the video, we were trying to reinforce the feeling of the song with a dream-like vibe. We are thrilled with how both the song and video turned out!" More...

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Demonical Introduces New Vocalist; Drops New EP

Swedish death metal band, Demonical, returns with a surprise EP, "Into Victory," featuring one new, original track and a cover of a Ramones song. The EP is out today on Agonia Records in CD and digital. Its title track received a lyric video, which can be viewed below.

The new material marks a lineup change, with the band debuting a new singer. "With the release of 'Into Victory', we hereby welcome Charlie Fryksell as our new vocalist," comments Demonical. "Like an unstoppable force, we will push on towards new greater goals and this EP is another step on that path. So ladies and gentlemen, join us in death!"

"Into Victory" followed the footsteps of "Mass Destroyer" (2022) to Glashuset and Sellnoise Studios, where it was recorded & produced by Demonical, Jonas Arnberg and Johan Hjelm. Mixing and mastering was done by Ronnie Bjornstrom at BLP Studios (Meshuggah, Blood Red Throne). The cover artwork was painted by Belial Necroarts.

Tracklisting:

1. Into Victory
2. Somebody Put Something In My Drink (Ramones cover) More...

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Wallowing Shares New Single "Cries Of Estima"

One of the UK underground's most fascinating groups, the sci-fi extreme metal quintet, Wallowing, have released their new single "Cries Of Estima." It's the second song from their new album Earth Reaper, to be released 28th April via Church Road Records.

The band comment: "Written as an audible interpretation of a spacecraft's final journey - from the craft beginning its explorative mission, to a hostile encounter with an enemy star fleet and the eventual crash landing on a dead planet, 'Cries Of Estima' is a brave step into new worlds for Wallowing as sonic storytellers." More...

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The Modern Age Slavery Reveals New Album Details

Emerging amidst a sea of deathcore, Italy’s The Modern Age Slavery separated themselves from the rest with their visceral sense of the genre. Coming equipped with grinding blast beats, merciless brutal vocals and slaughtering rapid-fire double bass patterns their sound developed and became increasingly unique over time.

Before the pandemic, they shared stages with Jinjer, Decapitated, Incite, and recently they hit the road again, having played in big festivals with Slipknot, Sabaton, Behemoth, and many more.

The year of the corona-pandemic, when the music world was forced into a standstill, The Modern Age Slavery focused on the writing and recording of their new piece of art, “1901 | The First Mother” which will see the light of the day on May 5th, 2023 via Fireflash Records.

Any fan of extreme metal will be blown away by the crushing music of the latest The Modern Age Slavery's full-length album. Praised by metalsucks.com as “the most underappreciated metal band in all of Italy, and possibly all of Europe,” on "1901 | The First Mother" the five-piece lies somewhere on a vast spectrum of blackened deathcore and aggressive metal. More...

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Scar Symmetry To Release First Album In Nine Years

Nine years since the first installment of "The Singularity Trilogy," virtuosic progressive metallers Scar Symmetry, who recently re-signed to Nuclear Blast Records, have announced "The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)" which will be released on 9th June. To coincide with the announcement, the band have also released the video for the album's first single "Scorched Quadrant."

In the wake of the announcement, band mastermind Per Nilsson comments "It brings us the utmost pleasure and pride to announce the long-awaited and much-teased 'Phase II' to the world along with its first single! It's been a long time coming but I'm glad that we went the extra mile to make everything as perfect as we felt it needed to be.

"The world is a different place in 2023 than it was in 2014 when 'Neohumanity' was released... We see the rise of AI before our very eyes and while we all look in awe at the wonders it can create it is easy to think of some very disturbing scenarios. In our new album, we once again explore these themes of neohumanity, artificial intelligence and the technological singularity from a dystopian point of view.

"The AI-enhanced neohumans are waging war upon the unmodified majority of mankind who don't stand a chance against their technologically superior oppressors, until one day, a glimmer of salvation appears in the night sky. Almost impossible to first take in; as an utterly alien mirage, seemingly out of nowhere mysterious, giant spacecrafts silently emerge from the heavens. Travelers both intergalactic and interdimensional, these ultraterrestrial beings who have been watching mankind for millennia seem to have decided to not sit idle while the technocalyptic cybergeddon is ravaging our planet.

"We recently renewed our vows with Nuclear Blast and we're very thrilled about moving on to this next phase (ahem) of our career with them by our side!

"The 'Phase II' touring cycle starts today and fittingly, we begin with a tour supporting my former employers Meshuggah! We hope to see you all on the road soon, but until then, here's Scorched Quadrant!" More...

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Ad Infinitum Posts "Eternal Rains" Video Online

Modern symphonic metal band Ad Infinitum is back to make a stand with their eagerly anticipated third record, "Chapter lll – Downfall," out today via Napalm Records! Along with the album release, the four-piece presents the stunning album opener, "Eternal Rains," as their fifth single off of the new offering. The song is represented by an impressively powerful music video that showcases Ad Infinitum as the energetic entity that they are celebrated as by their devotees.

Shimmering "Eternal Rains" proves the modern symphonic metal four-piece to be on top of their game, whirling the genre with their inimitable sound, topped by a breathtaking vocal performance by matchless rising star Melissa Bonny. This exciting ride showcases the massive talent of this uprising outfit, fanning the flames of a bright future!

Ad Infinitum on "Eternal Rains":
"After the fire, here comes the rain! Today is the day, our third album Chapter III - Downfall is out. We decided to feature one more song with a music video: ‘Eternal Rains’. ‘Eternal Rains’ is the opening track of this new record and sets the tone with a diverse palette of sounds and energies. Enjoy the new album, happy release day!" More...

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How We End Launches Debut Music Video

How We End is the new European crossover band, established in 2022, featuring veterans of the metal world hailing from Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Years of collective experience, banded and bonded together to create something versatile and new.

Diva Satanica (ex-Nervosa) and Jake E (Cyhra, ex-Amaranthe) deliver the perfect match of contrasting vocals that shape the band’s style: melodic, heavy, no compromises. Guitarists Jen Majura (ex-Evanescence) and Tom Naumann (Primal Fear) deliver the crunch, backed by Mitch Kunz on bass / synths and Adde Larsson on drums for the heavy groove.

How We End's music is a kick-ass blend of heavy guitar riffs and electronic programmed influences, growls and catchy singalong choruses that stick. Featuring diverse musical and cultural influences from all six musicians, the end result is a highly explosive experience that stays with you.

The official video for band's debut single, "My Fighting Heart," is streaming below. More...

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Demonstealer Releases New Single

Demonstealer, India's premier solo metal musician, has streamed his new video "The Art Of Disinformation," from his new album "The Propaganda Machine," out today, 31st March, via Black Lion Records.

Featuring Sebastian Lanser (Obsidious), Kilian Duarte (Fallujah), Anabelle Iratni (Veile, ex-Cradle of Filth), the video can be viewed below.

Featuring a stellar line-up of metal musicians across the globe, "The Propaganda Machine" is another chapter in the story of one of heavy music’s most tenacious underground legends. The album is a brilliantly wicked 40-minute ride featuring the likes of Hannes Grossmann (Alkaloid, Triptykon, Blotted Science), Martino Garattoni (Ne Obliviscaris, Ancient Bards), and Ken Bedene (Aborted). Technical symphonic death metal at its finest – no holds-barred, full-throttle heaviness. Relentless in its brutality, triumphant in its melodies. Vocally the album is also hard-hitting, marking a lyrical turn to reality and escape from fantasy - an eviscerating take on the polarised world today, and a record that fully speaks truth to power. More...

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Tarchon Fist Uploads New Lyric Video

Today Italy’s NWOTHM band Tarchon Fist unveil the second single taken from their upcoming fifth studio album, "The Flame Still Burns," which will be released via Underground Symphony on April 28th 2023.

The video for the title track deals with the core value of the band – the music described here as a motivating force to keep going despite the countless difficulties imposed by life. The single "The Flame Still Burns" features Giacomo Voli (Rhapsody Of Fire) and Julien Tournoud (Amon-Sethis) as special guests on vocals.

Tarchon Fist explains: "The pandemic changed everything and that is a matter of fact. Despite the many restrictions which forced us to work remotely during repeated and sudden lockdowns, we never stopped pursuing our projects which have always been driven by the great passion for what we do. Therefore, we have chosen the passion in all its forms as the main theme of this album. 'The Flame Still Burns' is not only the title track of our new album, but it’s also a message which reflects ourselves more than ever. The love for music has been burning inside us since we were child and from this passion comes the energy which daily continues to motivate us." More...

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DeathCollector To Release Debut Album In June

British / Irish death metal group DeathCollector have announced their debut album, "Death's Toll," to be released 23rd June via Prosthetic Records.

The band - featuring members of Bolt Thrower, Memoriam, Ashen Crown, Zealot Cult and more - have also released their lead single, "A Taste of Ichor," another taste of the incredible forthcoming release. You can check out the lyric video below.

Speaking on the album announcement, DeathCollector comments: "DeathCollector came into being towards the end of the pandemic, as a way for friends to keep working on music. But thanks to support from the underground, plus the amazing backing/support from Prosthetic Records, "Death's Toll" hits the streets this coming June.

"The album is a mixture of all things we've loved in music over the years. Everyone involved has put their heart and soul into this release, and we are eager to see where this opportunity will take us… For now we'll leave you with the first single, 'A Taste of Ichor'. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it!" More...

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Lordi Debuts "Dead Again Jayne" Video

Clear the manège, let the ultimate Lordi show begin! "Screem Writers Guild," a new beast of an album by the beloved Finnish hard rock monster squad, has been unleashed through Atomic Fire Records today and to even win the bravest listeners to their side, the group have also launched a cinematic music video for opening track "Dead Again Jayne," once again scripted, directed and edited by Mr. Lordi himself. Dealing with a beloved, patched-up lady who suddenly isn't that dead anymore, the song is dominated by a morbid, Frankenstein-ish atmosphere. You can check it out below.

Tonight, Lordi will coincidentally appear at Aria Complex (San Gwann, MT) to kick off another touring cycle and to also premiere their new musical play on stage for the first time. But the performance is only a warm-up for Mr. Lordi and his crew since it will be followed by a massive European arena tour alongside Sabaton and Babymetal in April/May as well as select summer festival gigs and a few Austrian shows in autumn. Take a look at the band's current itinerary below and keep your eyes peeled for more monstrous shows which will be added to their schedule from time to time...! More...

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