EXTORTED RELEASE "COGNITIVE DISSONANCE"

 

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Cognitive Dissonance

by Extorted

5 piece Thrash/Death metal group from Christchurch, New Zealand

Tracklist:

1.Deception 03:25

2.Infected 05:15

3.Transformation of Dreams 04:25

4.Cognitive Dissonance 04:52

5.Disposition 02:03

6.Ghastly Creatures 02:44

7.Violence 04:47

8.Limits of Reality 04:49

Debut album from New Zealand Thrash/Death band, EXTORTED

released October 16, 2024

Album Personnel:

Joel Campbell - Vocals

Ivan Roberts - Rhythm/Lead Guitar

Diego Pasqual Del Pobil - Rhythm Guitar

Brad Lucas - Bass

Bryce Tozer - Drums

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Jae Hulbert

Cover Art by Ed Repka

https://extorted.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/extortednz/

https://www.instagram.com/extortednz/

ABERRATOR RELEASE "BECKONING TRIBULATION"

 

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Dark Descent Records heralds the first coming of ABERRATOR - a yet unknown entity devoted to the ancient arts of death metal mastery.

The band's debut album Beckoning Tribulation is now on Dark Descent Records.

“Beckoning Tribulation is a lens into the human condition, the inevitable decline due to the innate zealotry and hypocrisy within our species,” states ABERRATOR vocalist N.H. “The triumphant proclamation of the death of god and the impending doom of mankind as it struggles within the vacuum this creates.”

Order Beckoning Tribulation at:

www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop

darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com

ddmsuo.eu

Stream the album on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube.

Founded in 2022 between G.P and N.H from New Zealand - with P.F from Canada on session drums, ABERRATOR pulls no punches, unleashing Beckoning Tribulation, a devastating full-length, straight out of the gate. Influenced by the darkest of death metal and death/doom - particularly of US and Finnish origins - the band fit the Dark Descent roster like a key to a crypt.    

TRACKLISTING:

1. Plague Monarch Ascendant

2. Flagellation Crusade

3. Doomed Quintessence

4. Beckoning Tribulation

5. Spiritual Attrition

6. Emissary of Suffering

7. ...Of the Crucible

The album comes clad in a masterful gravure/woodcut-style piece from the inimitable mind of Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design: “The artwork represents the above concepts. Betrayal hidden with the guise of civility; blades plunged into another's backs to complete the ouroboros. Murder, cunning and cowardice act in unison as tools of victory and ultimately defeat.”

ABERRATOR is:

G.P - Guitars and Bass

N.H - Vocals

P.F - Drums

www.facebook.com/Aberratordeath

www.instagram.com/Aberratordeath

RENDERED HELPLESS RELEASE "FROM NOTHING COMES ALL"

 

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RENDERED HELPLESS - From Nothing Comes All

Label: Lacerated Enemy records

 

RENDERED HELPLESS - From Nothing Comes All - Digipack CD

Shipping around July 10th,2024

RENDERED HELPLESS - Ultimate Pack

Including :

1 x RENDERED DELPLESS - From Nothing Comes All - TS

1 x RENDERED DELPLESS - Thorns - TS

1 x RENDERED DELPLESS - From Nothing Comeas All - DIGIPACK CD

+ poster + stickers + digital download code

  

RENDERED HELPLESS - From Nothing Comes All - BUNDLE

Shipping around July 10th, 2024

Apparel : FRUIT OF THE LOOM - Superpremium

Front + Back - Hi quality print

+ Digipack CD "From Nothing Comes All"

+ A3 poster & stickers

+ Digital Download Code

       

Tracklist:

1.Oblivion Treads on Cloven Hooves 01:22

2.Through Wails of the Abyss 03:21

3.Where Death May End 03:29

4.So Walk the Cyclical Hell for it is All the Same 03:13

5.Breathe the Ash for it is All You Deserve 03:36

6.See Your Dream Destroyed 03:37

7.Desperately You Beg, Emperor 04:52

8.From Nothing Comes All 04:49

"After 5 long years of work, I present my fourth album From Nothing Comes All with help from my good friends in Lacerated Enemy. Absurdly described as Atmospheric Meshuggah Slam this album is bound to have something for everyone, while never sacrificing the rhythmic brutality of death metal."

PHYSICAL COPIES COMING OUT JULY 10th, 2024!

PRE-ORDER NOW!

VIDEO: youtu.be/tSg-oxTrLFI

released May 29, 2024

Credits

Performed, Written, Recorded, Programmed, and Produced by Alexander Paul

Mixed and Mastered by Miguel at Demigod Recordings.

Artwork by Nightjar Illustrations

https://laceratedenemyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rendered-helpless-from-nothing-comes-all

https://www.facebook.com/RenderedHelpless/

https://instagram.com/renderedhelplessofficial

AZURA RELEASE "THE MIDDEN"

 

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The Midden

by Azura

Tracklist:

1.Enter the Midden 03:51

2.Tunnels of Ice 06:15

3.Sigil Stone 04:30

4.Frost Spider's Cove 03:06

5.The Summoning 05:55

6.The Alchemist's Corner 04:18

7.Banished 04:23

8.Curse of the Atronach 08:29

9.Prayers at the Shrine of Azura 04:05

10.North Winds 07:02

A young girl wanders into the depths of an old, dark dungeon. She is following in the footsteps of an evil Necromage who once trod the same forgotten, icy halls.

In her quest to seek revenge, she will explore The Midden and it's haunted past.

released May 30, 2024

MDN - All instruments

Recorded in Christchurch May 2024

Artwork logo hand drawn by Sonny-Boy Makaore

Artwork image taken in-game (TES:V)

Image edited with PhotoMania (photomania.net)

All sound effects recorded in-game (TES:V)

https://www.instagram.com/azuranzmetal/

https://azuranzmetal.bandcamp.com/

THOUSAND LIMBS RELEASE "THE AUROCHS"

 

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The Aurochs

by Thousand Limbs

Tracklist:

1.A Blessed Life to Suffer

2.A Dim Light to Guide 05:03

3.Only His Shadow

4.The Aurochs - Ensnared 06:34

5.The Aurochs - Aligned

6.Evening Haze

7.Form

8.Fall of Body and Mind 08:22

9.Beneath Soil and Stone

10.A Boundless Heart 06:20

releases July 19, 2024

Recorded and Mixed by Dave Rhodes

Mastered by Luke Finlay - Primal Mastering

Cover art by Gordiart

Logo by Jack Delgado

Patrick Gray - Guitar & Piano

Andrew Shaw - Guitar

Nicholas Baldwin - Bass Guitar, Synthesizers, Orchestration

Stuart Harwood - Drums

https://thousandlimbs.bandcamp.com/

http://facebook.com/thousandlimbsnz

http://instagram.com/thousandlimbsnz

ULCERATE RELEASE "CUTTING THE THROAT OF GOD"

 

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New Zealand Death Metal titans ULCERATE recently announced their mind-bending new album, "Cutting the Throat of God". A first track, 'The Dawn is Hollow', is released, accompanied by an enthralling video from Dehn Sora. Pre-orders for the new album and merch have also begun – please visit the Debemur Morti Prods. EU, US and Bandcamp shops. Do not miss this beyond-exceptional release from a band that has, once again, truly surpassed expectations.

https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-the-throat-of-god

https://www.debemur-morti.com/en/400-ulcerate-shop

https://debemurmorti.aisamerch.com/band/ulcerate

Tracklist:

1.To Flow Through Ashen Hearts

2.The Dawn is Hollow 07:32

3.Further Opening the Wounds

4.Transfiguration In and Out of Worlds

5.To See Death Just Once

6.Undying as an Apparition

7.Cutting the Throat of God

After triumphantly casting off the shackles of claustrophobic dissonance on 2020's lauded "Stare Into Death and Be Still", New Zealand unorthodox Death Metal legends ULCERATE up the ante even further with mind-bending 7th album "Cutting the Throat of God".

An acknowledgement that the band's most powerful and affecting material leans to the melodic side, this refined and hook-laden new record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself, a conflagration of inventively visceral Death/Black Metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-nodding abandon - obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.

After a quarter-century of playing music together, Hoggard/Saint Merat are cemented as one of the strongest guitar-percussion combinations in Extreme Metal, and their music has evolved organically into something completely its own. The most well-produced ULCERATE record to date, "Cutting the Throat of God" is filled with peerless rhythms, the band's smoothest transitions, most compelling phrasing, and truly staggering riffage. The exhilarating, liquescent flow is topped off by a destructively dynamic performance from vocalist/lyricist Paul Kelland.

"Cutting the Throat of God" explores a cohesive lyrical theme centered around the rupture of morality, the delicate boundary between depravity and extremity, and the irreversible descent into darkness.

releases June 14, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/Ulcerate

https://instagram.com/ulcerateofficial

https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/music

CESURA RELEASE "REAP THE NIGHT"

 

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Reap The Night

by Cesura

Tracklist:

1.Iron Flesh 04:36

2.Warriors Of Death 03:32

3.The Hills Have Eyes 04:30

4.Reap The Night 03:58

Buy the digital only copy, and support death thrash armageddon :

cesura.bandcamp.com/album/reap-the-night

released December 1, 2023

Kaizer Wong - Drums

James Dunne - Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing)

Luke Presnall - Guitars (rhythm), Vocals (backing)

Sean 'The Banshee' Van Tiel - Vocals (lead), Bass

https://swampkultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reap-the-night

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095051687030

https://instagram.com/cesura_band

SOUL VOID RELEASE NEW SINGLE "BATHED IN UNWOUND GUTS"

 

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Bathed In Unwound Guts

by Soul Void

Tracklist:

1.Bathed In Unwound Guts 05:17

released December 14, 2023

All music by Soul Void

Drums by Luke Finlay from Primal Mastering (at Dynamic Range)

Vocals by Luke Finlay from Primal Mastering (at Various dungeons across Auckland)

Guitars and Bass tracked by Luke Keir (at Heathridge Archway)

Synth Intro written and recorded by Paulie Wayne for Absinthius

Mixed & Master by Lewis Noke Edwards @lewcifer.wav

Art by Hekter Danilo @hekter.art

https://soul-void.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/soul.void

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083664129373

PLAGUE OF THE FALLEN RELEASE "AMONGST THE RATS"

 

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Amongst the Rats

by Plague of the Fallen

Tracklist:

1.Dead 01:23

2.Amongst the Rats 02:54

3.The God of Depravity 03:45

4.Cycles of Anguish 03:10

5.Tongues of Fire 03:20

6.Relentlessly Butchered 02:24

7.Leading us into the darkness 03:15

8.Incestuous Breeding 02:29

9.So you have chosen death 03:10

Vicious Death Metal From Christchurch, New Zealand.

released December 8, 2023

Music and lyrics by Vincent Henley Minchington.

Mixed and mastered by Demigod Recordings.

https://plagueofthefallen1.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/PlagueoftheFallen

https://www.instagram.com/plagueofthefallen/

IMPERIAL SLAVE RELEASE "...STILL AT LARGE"

 

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.​.​.​Still At Large

by IMPERIAL SLAVE

Tracklist:

1.Slave or Death

2.Who Rules the World?

3....Still At Large

4.Those Who Serve

5.Exterminate 04:00

6.Origins

7.536

8.Blood Moon Sonata

9.Priestiality

releases December 15, 2023

Thrashy fuckin' beer slammin' death metal from The Swamp, Aotearoa.

Sam Sheppard - Vocals

Anthony Hati - Guitars

Isaac Johnston-Lundy - Guitars

Achilles Manly - Bass

Matt Wright - Drums

https://imperialslave.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ImperialSlave/

https://www.instagram.com/imperialslave/

BLOODY HELL RELEASE "BLOOD METAL"

 

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Blood Metal

by Bloody Hell

Tracklist:

1.Intro 01:38

2.Wolfman 04:58

3.Fields of Blood 02:46

4.Gravespawn 04:48

5.Vae Victus 08:13

6.Death Rider 04:28

7.Savage Gaul 05:46

8.Obsessed with Knives 03:27

9.Blood Metal 07:20

All tracks written and performed by Bloody Hell, except Track 1 by ange.mac.

Guitars, Bass & Drums recorded live @ Audioganic Studios by Kieran Colina.

All Vocals & Backing Guitars recorded @ The Apocalypse Compound by Nik "Captain Catsquid" Coulter.

Mixed & Produced by Nik "Captain Catsquid" Coulter.

Master by Casian @ Cruel Soundworks Mastering.

Art by Sam Ovens.

released August 29, 2023

https://bloodyhellnz.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/BloodyHellNZ

GORTOLOGY RELEASE "SOCIOPERFECT"

 

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Socioperfect

by Gortology

Tracklist:

1.Psociopsychologipathicisms 02:05

2.I never admit it 02:47

3.Domestic Prostitution 03:16

4.Bump to the head 03:24

5.Socioperfect 02:05

6.Allfunny 04:13

"Every song is about you." Lol jokes.

The lyrical content is purely artistic and aimed and no specific people.

Another barely 20 minute ep that summarizes my social life from ages 17 to 41 which incidentally was the total ep time of 17:41

It's taken me 6 years from recording tracks in early 2017 and the rest is my mixing and mastering skills catching up to my own personal standards. A type of long hell.

Its an attack on antithetical psychology and lack of self support. Play it to people who act like caring about each other is weak. Clearing your life of the fucked up shit you need to justify your own behaviours.

This ep is a call out on those exact behaviors when most of the way you behave has come from your own fucked up thinking that people have no idea about because you keep it hidden at all costs.

If people knew how little you cared for their safety and security.

Thats Socioperfect.

It's topic is ultimately psychosis. I'm not exactly proud of it topically but I've stayed true to my original vision for Gortology without diluting the raw lyrical content as I have mellowed considerably as I have aged musically. Things I have had personal experience in the aftermath and long term damages done by not only the acts, but the...  more

releases August 16, 2023

Guitar, Bass and Vocals by Daniel Hawkins

Drums by Ryan Shaw

Guitar by Raymond Ponga

Vocals on tracks 2, 3 and 5 by Z Grace

Vocals on tracks 4 and 6 by JB

Recorded at Mountain Sound Studios 2017-2018

Mixed and mastered by D Hawkins at DhawkAudioNz

Huge thanks to members and close friends.

Danny thanks

Dad(RIP) Ryan and Ray, Zara, JB, JR

Slave Cadaver and Inhale

Mum and Mark, Kellie and Shayne

And all much loved family and their spawn.

https://gortology.bandcamp.com/

GRYM RHYMNEY RELEASE "THIS IS WHAT YOUR HANDS WERE MADE FOR"

 

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This Is What Your Hands Were Made For

by Grym Rhymney

Label: Swamp Kult Records

Official SKR CD Release

limited to 50 copies

Tracklist:

1.Nail In The Coffin 05:01

2.Unfortunate 04:17

3.The Heathen Remains 05:03

4.Blind Respect 04:32

5.This Is What Your Hands Were Made For 07:44

© Grym Rhymney 2023

released July 28, 2023

All music written and recorded by Albi Ingram, Izak Kennedy, Spencer Jew, Jamie Stuart, Sean O'Kane - Connolly, Joseph Steedman, Hamish Clark, HeyLee Manzeron

Artwork and layout by Ryvene Dela Cruz

Mixing and mastering by Matt Hammond at Tin Dolphin Music Studio

Released by Swamp Kult Records 2023

https://swampkultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-your-hands-were-made-for

https://www.facebook.com/swampkultrecords

https://www.facebook.com/GrymRhymneyOfficial/

https://grymrhymney.bandcamp.com/

BULLETBRAINZ RELEASE "DEAD BUT NOT DECEASED"

 

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DEAD BUT NOT DECEASED

by BULLETBRAINZ

Tracklist:

1.Intro 00:54

2.Division 01:24

3.I open up this wound 00:47

4.Dread 01:36

5.Parasite 03:06

Bulletbrainz is back with another musical abomination full of noise and disgusting radioactive shit. Listen at your own risk!

released July 21, 2023

Made by Dead Man Razza.

https://bulletbrainz.bandcamp.com/

PROJECT: BLOOD RELEASE "WEAPON OF THE OCCULT"

 

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Weapon of the Occult

by Project: Blood

Tracklist:

1.Hyperdyne 04:12

2.A Darker Path 03:39

3.Blood Projection 03:04

4.Wetware 03:50

5.Weapon of the Occult 04:45

released July 23, 2023

James Skeletor - Vocals

Rob Spleen - Guitar & Electronics

Damo - Bass

J Rodeo - Drums

Recorded and Mixed by Rob Spleen

Mastered by Danny Hawkins @Dhawkaudio

Artwork by Rizal Mangsi @mangsiart

Thanks: Wives/Dommes/Creditors, Lorelle, Lani, Andy @younghunglin, Markham/Snails, Murray/$lavecollective, Mikey/Control, Ben/Valhalla.

https://projectblood.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectBlood

ORFANTAL RELEASE "GESTICULATIONS INTO DARKNESS"

 

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Gesticulations Into Darkness

by Orfantal

Solo Funeral/Doom project from Christchurch New Zealand

The first and last tracks of a never to be released blackened funeral doom album written over the course of covid-19 lockdowns and mired in years of death, grief and major upheaval.

Tracklist: 

1.Husk 07:10

2.Grief 06:01

released July 19, 2023

https://orfantal.bandcamp.com/

SOULS OF HADES RELEASE "SHADOWS"

 

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Shadows

by Souls of Hades

Tracklist:

1.Shadows (2023) 06:46

2.Shadows (2018) 04:56

Two versions of the track "Shadows" by Souls of Hades.

2023 updated version from the upcoming album 'Final Night In Hell'.

2018 version from the album 'Lay Your Bones'

released July 12, 2023

Souls of Hades, a blackened Rock band summoning elements from the filthier, darker, and grittier corners of rock n' roll. Hailing from New-Zealand.

Janick Peters - Bass, Vocals, Keyboards.

Troy Weston - Drums, Backing Vocals

Benjy Ratford - Lead Guitar

Nigel Von Toxic - Rhythm Guitar (2023 version only)

Written by Souls of Hades

Lyrics by Janick Peters

https://soulsofhades.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SoulsOfHades/

SOULS OF HADES RELEASE "STICKY FILTH"

 

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Sticky Filth (Free Tribute E​.​P)

by Souls of Hades

Tracklist:

1.Flesh 02:34

2.Cold 03:07

3.Vanguard 6 Hellride 02:36

Souls of Hades laying down a raw tribute to the legendary, fellow New-Plymouth rockers, the mighty STICKY FILTH!

Since the beginning of this band, Souls of Hades has been covering tracks from all of their influences. Next to Danzig and The Misfits, Sticky Filth covers were some of the first songs to be jammed by the band, and finally, during the sessions for 2021s "All The Filthy Ones", studio recordings were finally laid down. These 3 are some of the bands favorite to play.

released June 25, 2023

All songs originally written and performed by Sticky Filth. Words and Music Written by Sticky Filth. All Rights Reserved. Recorded without Permission.

Janick Peters - Vocals/Bass

Troy Weston - Drums

Benjy Ratford - Guitar

2023 Sewerside Records/Souls of Hades

https://soulsofhades.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SoulsOfHades/

THE MURK RELEASE "LOCUST"

 

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Locust

by The Murk

Tracklist:

1.Salt 04:05

2.Sulphur 04:29

3.Myrrh 03:49

released June 13, 2023

The Murk

Solo in 'Myrrh' by Jiji Aligno

Blackened Death/Doom from Pōneke/Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa

https://themurk.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092364875361&mibextid=ZbWKwL

OSSEOUS TOMB RELEASE "ÓDIO"

 

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Ódio

by Osseous Tomb

Tracklist:

1.Ódio 03:54

2.Anathema 04:17

3.Spiritual Squalor 04:42

4.Blighted Altar 06:32

New Zealand Black Metal

Official cassette release TBA.

released May 28, 2023

Recorded and mixed by Sam HM.

Artwork by Splintered Spire.

https://osseoustomb.bandcamp.com/