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Snorlax was born in unexpected circumstances during an experimental recording session in mid-2017 at Black Blood Audio in Brisbane, Australia. Recording engineer Brendan Auld stumbled upon the sound and found the voice of Snorlax while trialing new recording techniques. Following the stream of ideas and sounds that ensued, the result was what later became the unmastered release of The Splintering Demo. Having only played drums for a few short years at that point, Brendan's expectations were low, yet the release grabbed the attention of many black metal enthusiasts including Caligari Records, Jef Whitehead of Leviathan and even made #2 on a 2017 Decibel Magazine list of "Must Listen Underground Demos" compiled by the late Trevor Strnard of The Black Dahlia Murder.

Honing in on the Snorlax sound even further in 2020 with the release of II via Brilliant Emperor Records, more death metal-inspired elements began creeping into the foreground and soon the label "blackened death" was attached to project.

Jumping forward to 2023, Snorlax is set to release its third composition, mysteriously titled The Necrotrophic Abyss. Much like II, this full-length release clocks in at just under 30 minutes, delivering a concise, ruthless display of sonic violence and despair. This album is presented as a concept, with an overarching story that flows throughout, each song a chapter depicting a world so vile its own death is forced by the hands of nature. In the second half of the record Brendan introduces some new voices and layers of collaboration as the planet is laid to waste for eons resulting in a desolate baron abyss only creatures of the undead have a chance of surviving. The album closes with a slight glimpse of hope as the story eludes to an unlikely rebirth of evolution and a potentially inhabitable future after all.

This dark narrative is painted only by the lyrics, the music never loosening its grip, staying trve to the perpetual paralysis proclaimed on track 1 of the Snorlax first release. 

Sarkom are back with a vengeance with “Exceed In2 Chaos”, their fifth opus after “Anti-Cosmic Art” released in 2016. In the meantime, they have kept themselves busy releasing several EPs containing some new tunes and a memorable rendition of the Prodigy classic “Breathe”. Anyway, 2025 marks the comeback in full form: “Exceed In2 Chaos” is a grand return to classic, razor-sharp norwegian black metal in pure Sarkom tradition. Since the artwork, Sarkom again push the boundaries of Black Art with a challenging, violent and brightly coloured design.
Musically speaking, “Exceed” displays nine tracks of cold, evil black metal enhanced by a great production and a bone-chilling vocal performance by Unsgaard. Balancing between fast splinters and panzer-like mid-tempos, the record clocks at almost 50 minutes of pure darkness!

Following on from last year’s bleak and disconsolate Wounds single, Finland’s purveyors of
‘Anti-Life Black Metal Misery’, Grave With A View, have returned with their most powerful and
harrowing release to date – Raw Illumination. A full length album steeped in isolation, violence, self
destruction and death, Raw Illumination is not an album for the faint of heart or the fragile of spirit.
Recorded and mixed by O.H.R and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth,
Dopelord, Christ Agony etc), Raw Illumination is the sonic distillation of caustic chaos and grim,
unmitigated despair – every malicious note cutting straight to the bone – and its aura of desperate
degradation has been perfectly captured in the cover imagery; the artwork and layout by Danny The
Destroyer, utilising powerful, unsettling images of model Anna Iivana Julma, captured by the band.
When it crawls from the crypts of label Dusktone on November 29th, Raw Illumination will hunt down
the broken and the flawed, the outcasts and the lepers and swallow them into its maw of ice and
pain.

For fans of Norwegian Black Metal and melodic Black Metal.
For fans of SETHERIAL, MARDUK, DARK FUNERAL, NECROPHOBIC.

HELVITNIR with their first album deliver classic but yet melodic black metal with a pounding production sound

“Björndansen” is the new album by Hagathorn, a folk project by American musician Will Ott. The material is largely derived from traditional Nordic folk songs which feature added improvisation and thematic elements to compliment the original melodies. Two of the tracks are not traditional but rather original Hagathorn compositions inspired by Nordic folklore.

The atmosphere and aesthetics of “Björndansen” are conjured with a historic sound driven by rhythms from an older era. Mystery and melodies from the past intertwine to invoke feelings of magic, ancient forests, and rural antiquity.

jewelcase edition
 

jewelcase

- 3rd album
- booklet with some lyrics and info
 

The DEATH METAL juggernaut you have always asked for, a lovecraftian whirlwind of fierceness and nameless demons. Italian finest Death Metal commando at their debut mixing new and old-school together.

For fans of Morbid Angel, Vomitory, Sinister and Deranged.

One of Europe's most ferocious entities strikes again! Their last year Ep drawn first blood but with "Through Demonic Spell", the italian combo FERAL FORMS is definitely going out for the kill.

Hailing from Trieste, Italy, FERAL FORMS is a ferocious new beast freshly coagulated from current and former members of Grime, The Secret, Claustrum and Fierce
The 4-piece, after a debut Ep in 2023 titled "Premalignant", will aim to conjure the unholy Gods of Death Metal pushing their sound to a new level of tonal corruption with their debut album "Through Demonic Spell".

For fans of Concrete winds, Antichrist Siege Machine, Angelcorpse, Of Feather And Bone.

The auditory onslaught hailing from Texas and known as PNEUMA HAGION is going to unleash their third full-length album in late August through Everlasting Spew Records! A relentless barrage of downtuned brutality will resonate deep with the darkest chords of your soul.
This is thick, this is raw, this is crushing and unfiltered aggression!

For fans of Morbid Angel, Immolation, Hissing, Antediluvian.