Belgian death metal battering ram Ancient Rites, who combined heavy metal with mechanistic and Darwinian death metal, have re-issued their debut album The Diabolic Serenades on vinyl via Soul Seller Records. Expect to find this one in your mailbox on July 17, 2020 or thereabouts.
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Xtreem Music announced its intent to release the classic Adramelech demo “Grip of Darkness” on their Ten Inches of DeathCult series. A release consistent with the Finnish tradition as outlined by the mighty Demigod, “Grip of Darkness” bears witness to the brutal yet nearly clandestine melodic approach that would ultimately define the Adramelech sound.
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Original Florida death metal act Massacre began working in the new style of death metal before it even had a name and in 1986, released a demo named “Aggressive Tyrant” which cemented the legacy of this band in the history of the death metal genre. Xtreem Records has re-issued this with a rehearsal from the same year on a new LP.
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Onrushing soundwall death metal band Incantation merge influences from their first three albums on “Propitiation,” an advance track from the forthcoming album Sect of Vile Divinities to be released on August 21, 2020. This album shows Incantation exploring its doom-death roots while keeping its streamlined songwriting format from recent albums.
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Before Immortal came to life, guitarist Demonaz worked on a hybrid of primitive death metal and Bathory in a band he formed with later Hades drummer Jørn Inge Tunsberg. Nuclear War Now! productions will release the two Amputation demos as a single CD/LP entitled Slaughtered in the Arms of God on August 20, 2020.
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Despite incorporating some modern metal ideas, Shezmu remains entrenched in the style of old school death metal and hardcore, focusing on simple atmospheric riffs that emphasize structure more than melody or harmony, sounding not dissimilar to Abomination, Miasma, or Baphomet but with more focus on bounding, energetic punk-style riffs.
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Rescuing another long-out-of-print album from the dustbin of history, Svart Records re-issued Winter Into Darkness — with the “Eternal Frost” demo previously released as the Eternal Frost EP — on April 27, 2020, as a deluxe edition on 2CD and vinyl.
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Seven Metal Inches Records is re-issuing the 1990 Derketa EP Premature Burial as part of the label’s “Unearth The Underground series Pt. III” series of classic underground metal back in print.
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As a teaser to forthcoming album Dawn Of The Damned set for release later this year, Necrophobic plans to issue its Mirror Black EP on July 17, 2020, featuring the brand new track “Mirror Black” and a live recording of an older song, “Darkside.”
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Legendary Mexican old school death metal band Cenotaph re-issued its classic demo “Tenebrous Apparitions” this week in digital format so that new waves of metal aficionados can bathe in its doom-laden morbid glory. During the early 1990s, this band explored a style of basic riffs in journey-oriented compositions and defined a national sound for Mexico.
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