Mexican death metal band Cenotaph forged a unique style of Central American death metal much as Sepultura did for Brazil, and influenced all New World old school death metal bands to follow.
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Dread Records Suspends Future Releases
Independent and smaller heavy metal labels and suppliers may be beginning to feel the pinch of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Dread Records, a label devoted to re-issuing underground classics on cassette, has notified its fans and customers that although they will continue to ship in stock items available on their website that all upcoming releases have been suspended including a re-release of Demilich-Nespithe.
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A Fine Day To Die Records Re-Issues Niden Div 187 Impergium And Towards Judgment
A Fine Day to Die Records will re-issue the classic album Impergium and corresponding EP Towards Judgement by Niden Div. 187 as a limited cassette release, and is currently taking pre-orders.
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Graveland Releases “Possessed By Steel” From Hour of Ragnarok
Pioneering and prolific black metal act Graveland announced that an official video clip for the track Possessed by Steel will appear exclusively on the D.R. Silesia YouTube channel sometime during April 14th, 2020. This track will adorn the upcoming album Hour of Ragnarok to be released in autumn of 2020.
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Animate Records Re-Issues Master Let’s Start A War
Animate Records announced plans to re-release Master Let’s Start a War on a six-panel digipak. Attempting to mix the Master “sound” with a greater heavy metal and sludge sensibility, some of which appeared on Faith is In Season, Let’s start a War might best seen as a transition record for a band trying to find its voice but also portended what would become the later and tighter manifestation of Master.
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Xtreem Music to release Sinister’s “Perpetual Damnation” via their “10 Inches of Deathcult” series
Xtreem Music announced the “10 Inches of Deathcult” series which will provide long time death metal listeners with a chance to obtain rare and long out of print demos from classic 80s and 90s extreme metal acts on ten inch vinyl, with its first release, “Perpetual Damnation” from Dutch death metal legends Sinister.
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Century Media Reissues All Three Unanimated Albums
Century Media Records has announced its intention to re-issue all three full length records from Swedish death metal veterans Unanimated.
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Infamous / Ordo Sanguinis Noctis Split Released
In the midst of the coronavirus devastating Italy, melodic Sardinian black metal act Infamous recently released a new track entitled “Forza e Onore” on a split with Ordo Sanguis Noctis entitled Strength and Honour/ Consecration of Mossy Sanctuary. With “Forza e Onore” mastermind S.A. explores familiar melodies with perhaps a greater sense of violence and urgency than those tracks which appeared on the previous full length.
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Metal Blade Records Re-Issues Anacrusis Titles Suffering Hour, Reason, Manic Impressions, And Screams and Whispers
Metal Blade Records reissued the first four records from overlooked technical speed metal act Anacrusis during the last quarter of 2019. Hailing from St. Louis, Anacrusis incorporated crossover elements infused with familiar speed metal tropes, and later added more accessible progressive heavy metal elements while remaining musically astute.
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Avzhia Announces New Album Fear of my Existence For 2020
Mexican flowing black metal act Avzhia have released a promotional video for their upcoming 2020 record Fear of my Existence. According to details the new album will contain eight tracks of new material spanning over an hour of listening time, without the intrusion of synthesizers or other modern weaknesses.
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