Vendetta Records

Following their acclaimed debut album "Fane", UK black metallers Ante-Inferno have announced to release their sophomore full length record, entitled "Antediluvian Dreamscapes", on May 13th via Vendetta Records.

Featuring 7 brand new tracks, with "Antediluvian Dreamscapes" Ante-Inferno have created a dark and mournful, harsh and desolate universe, taking the listener on an emotional journey through the spheres of atmospheric black metal.

Tracklisting:
1. A Lullaby to a Dying World
2. Transcendence
3. Celestial Mirage
4. Shadowed Waters
5. Two Score and Ten Souls
6. Beyond the Immemorial Veil
7. Nightmares of the Eschaton

Limited vinyl pressing (300 copies), this includes 2 bonus tracks.

"There is hardly any weakness here and "Radiant Gloom" can actually be described as a mix of the typical influences of Gothenburg-Death and Nordic Melo-BM ala Catamenia or Old Mans Child." - undergrounded.de

"Classic black metal elements and techniques are skillfully combined with contemporary sound and unique musical ideas." - MetalHangar18

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. The Black Age
2. Argil
3. Divine

Side B:
4. Hunger
5. Silver Tongue
6. The Calling Void

HERETICAL SECT is a reclusive collective fixated on the physical and spiritual genocides of the Southwest.

The Southwest; represented through a nostalgic lense of cowboy culture, rarely exposes the most brutal atrocities of American history.

Churches chained shut and lit on fire with the congregation inside, severed limbs piled in the streets, and disease and slavery are burned into the memory of the landscape.

These horrors are sonically juxtaposed against the natural beauty of the high desert.  Expansive skies, deep canyons, painted red rocks, all witnesses to untold butchery and grief.

HERETICAL SECT features members of other prominent Santa Fe (NM) bands, such as Predatory Light, Superstition... May all life learn to die.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Visceral Divination
2. Plateau Of Stars

Side B:
3. Punish The Christ
4. Swar Wreathed Flames

Danish black metal. Originally formed in the year of the millenium under the name Hrapp and several demos later, it was in 2005 when the Danish Black Metal trio changed its name into LIGFAERD.

Following a line-up change, numerous EPs, splits as well as two full-length albums, live appearances such as at Metal Magic Festival, the band quickly began to receive high praise in the underground Black Metal scene.

Today, LIGFAERD are finally presenting us the first details about their third album titled Den Ildrøde Konge', which is set for a release on March 15th 2019 with Berlin-based Vendetta Records!

In the band's tradition the lyrics do not only come in Danish, with Den Ildrøde Konge'LIGFAERD are continuing their path on the darkest art of metal and deliver a fierce beast of pure evil, the band's strongest and most compelling work to date.

Tracklisting:
1.Fra Helvede Frem
2. Den Ildrøde Konge
3. Den Hornedes Klo
4. Kiøge Huskors 1608 - 1615
5. Epitafium
6. Under Uindviet Jord
7. Sortekunst
8. Den Stærkeste Hyrde
9. Jordfæstet
10. Den Fejlslagne Nedmaning

Occult black metal from Denmark, feat. members of Ligfaerd and Serpent Lair.

WITCHCULT is a Danish black metal group originally concieved by Besat, Spedalsk and Benedictus on guitars, vocals and drums respectively.

The music is a blasphemous unity of the violent and the vicious, the sinister and the sepulchral. It was concieved to reflect the liturgical format of the lyrics, devoted to Satan and the way of the witch, each a cantata in a sacrament in his name.

After the release of the debut album Cantate of the Black Mass drummer Arent and guitarist Erebos joined the cult to begin work on their next liturgy.

Tracklisting:
1. I Am The Witch
2. The Hex Of Uncreation
3. The Sarkic Ritual
4. Sour Wine And Bitter Bread
5. Vaxations Of The Black Arts
6. Scholomance
7. Trials Of The Flesh
8. Seven Brides Of The Scarlet King

2nd album by SPECTRAL WOUND from canada. "Spectral Wound play a voracious take on Black Metal. One that is seeped in atmosphere without the heavy use of keyboards or operatic elements.

Their initial sonic declaration is grim, evil and drenched in unrefined disgust for our world.

But even with their heavy leaning towards the Finnish style of Black Metal, they've managed to take it and twist out their own take and identity, a fact that comes into play the further one delves into this release." (cvltnation)

Tracklisting:
1. Woods from Which the Spirits Once so Loudly Howled
2. Black Satanic Glamour
3. Slaughter of the Medusa
4. Feral Gates of Flesh
5. La nuit froide de l'oubli
6. Imperial Thanatosis

Release Date: 07/09/2018

Haunter's debut album, Thrinodia delivers forty-six and a half minutes of aggressive, filth-encrusted Black/Death Metal, heavy on gritty, grating nihilism and grim, sombre melody, without mercy or compromise. That being said, the surprisingly solemn, slow-burn introduction to 'Perinatal Odium Dilute' (complete with some captivating bass/guitar interplay) reminds me quite a bit of the dearly-departed Ludicra, although the savage torrent of blackend venom and vitriol which follows is several shades darker and several times more vicious.

The two bands do share a similar penchant, however, for interweaving hellishly hooky riffs and subdued, shadowy melodies into the mix, as the eerily headbangable finale to 'Perinatal Odium Dilute' and the sublime second half of the savage 'Untitled' so aptly demonstrate.

The vocals of Bradley Tiffin are unflinchingly bestial throughout, and are frequently employed more as simply another instrument in the collective cacophony, rather than as something separate in their own right, rising from a rumbling, blast-furnace roar to a chalkboard-scraping shriek, sometimes reaching a level of apoplectic fury (see the barnburning 'Vial' for proof) which renders them nearly indecipherable.

'Thus My Undertaking, to Reject Stagnation, and to Liberate Fervency' may have a knowingly pretentious title, but it just so happens to be one of the album's best (and most varied) songs, transitioning from its haunting, minimalist intro into a raging torrent of scorched-earth guitar work and lithe, limber bass lines, before running through a violent sequence of of straining, strangling tremolo runs, chaotic blast-work, and dreary, disconsolate melodic interludes, with barely a pause for breath.

Following the surprisingly atmospheric (yet still shockingly intense) strains of 'Apnoeic (Polarized in Retrospective Contempt)' - which is, by the way, another real stand-out - the album concludes with its fourteen-minute title-track, which, despite its extravagant run-time and the sheer density of its sonic assault, still manages to work in a number of brutally effective hooks and eerie melodic touches along the way, before finally culminating in a drawn-out finale of gloomy ambience and brooding distortion.

So, while this album isn't perfect (the raging chaos of it all doesn't always seem fully under the band's control, and the unrefined density of their sound doesn't always do them any favours), it's still perfect for all of those with a jones for something ugly and uncompromising, something which doesn't pull its punches, and which offers no excuses. (No Clean Singing) license

Tracklisting:
1. Perinatal Odium Dilute
2. Untitled
3. Thus My Undertaking, To Reject Stagnation, and to Liberate Fervency
4. Apnoeic (Polarized in Retrospective Contempt)
5. Shrouded Moor
6. Vial
7. Thrinodia

Release Date: 07/09/2018

Release Date: 07/09/2018

'Entropy Mantra' delivers seven new songs, all highlighting and pushing each member to showcase their musical mastery. Soaring, dark and anthemic riffs, intertwining bass and guitars, aggressively tight drums, and thoughtfully complex melodies, ANICON have executed their most commanding music to date.

Featuring stunning new artwork by vocalist/guitarist Owen Rundquist.

Tracklisting:
1. Feeding Hand
2. Wither And Wasted
3. Drowned In The Mirage
4. Names Written In Tar
5. Tarnish On The Emblems Of Ardor
6. Blood From A Road
7. Paling Terrain

The side project of Solbrud guitarist/vocalist Ole Pedersen Luk, Afsky makes a big impression on its debut LP.

Afsky covers a lot of ground and treads the line between traditional black metal, atmospheric black metal and depressive black metal, with some additional influences seeping in to provide some subtle nuances.

It sometimes has that abrasive second-wave tonality and riffing that wouldn't sound out of place on a Taake record, while on the other hand it alternates between icy assaults and slower atmospheric/depressive sections that have a lot of depth to offer listeners.

It's a strong first showing for this new Danish black metal project.

feat. MYRKUR on 2 tracks...

Tracklisting:
1. Jeg bærer deres lig
2. Skær
3. Sorte vand
4. Stjernerne slukkes
5. Vættekongen
6. Glemsomhedens
7. Oh mÃ¥neløse nat

California post-black metal quartet Wild Hunt have landed a big sound on 'Afterdream of the Reveller,' the title track to their just-announced second album. All of this began when Wild Hunt's guitar player Drew Cook unexpectedly passed away in April 2015 (his family has chosen to withhold the cause of death), on the morning that the band was about to embark on a two-week tour with Cormorant.

The remaining members dropped the tour and instead released Scroll and Urn, an EP they had recently completed and were originally planning on selling on the road. Because of what had happened, Scroll and Urn was released as a tribute to Drew in the days following his passing. It remains Cook's last recorded work.

In June 2015, as a way of coping and moving forward in the wake of Cook's death, Wild Hunt began work on their next record. "Nest of Flames," "Palingenesia" and "Choir of a Greater Sea" were originally written and performed with Cook and were now properly recorded for the first time, and one of Cook's remaining riffs made up the final section of "Odious Gamble."

Bassist West Lenz amicably left the band in June 2016 after having contributed riffs for "Odious Gamble" and having recorded parts for "Nest of Flames" and "Choir of a Greater Sea." This left drummer Harland Burkhart and guitarist Greg Brace to write and record the majority of the album by themselves.

They composed and tracked the songs piece by piece in their rehearsal space and over email, all while making no announcements about the state of the band--as far as most in the SF Bay Area scene knew, Wild Hunt had broken up when Cook passed away. Cook's death heavily informed the lyrical content of the record, though Afterdream of the Reveller isn't exactly a concept album.

The album contains themes of depression, descent into madness and mental purgatory, death and its impact on those close to the deceased. Those themes help form a loose narrative throughout the record, though the album ends on a hopeful and triumphant note (both musically and lyrically) with Palingenesia, a song that alludes to the ideas of resurrection and reincarnation.

In July 2016, Jamison Kester was recruited to fill the second guitar slot. He had shared the stage several times with Wild Hunt with his prior band Infinite Waste, and was one of the few guitar players in the bay area with the technical ability to play Wild Hunt's music.

As the band stepped into the mixing of Afterdream of the Reveller in December 2016, they contacted Avinash Mittur to help them overcome technical hurdles they had encountered. He had befriended Burkhart, Brace and Cook years prior as an intern at Trakworx Studio, whereScroll and Urn and the first Wild Hunt album Before the Plane of Angles were mastered.

Upon hearing of the vacant bass player position Mittur offered to try out for the band and the new lineup played its first show in May 2017, where much of the material from Afterdream was performed live for the first time. The four members of Wild Hunt's current lineup were all present at Cook's memorial in October 2015, and Kester and Mittur first met after the latter had written a tribute piece to Cook.

Greg Brace - guitar and vocals (Dispirit, ex-Dimesland) Harland Burkhart - drums and lead vocals (Dispirit, ex-Dimesland) Jamison Kester - guitar and vocals (Void Omnia, ex-Infinite Waste, ex-Apocryphon) Avinash Mittur - bass

Tracklisting:
1. At Once the Vision and the Seer
2. Odious Gamble
3. The Last Saeculum
4. Choir of a Greater Sea
5. Desiderium
6. Afterdream of the Reveller
7. Nest of Flames
8. Palingenesia

RIYL: Void Omnia, Ash Borer, Wolves In The Throne Room, Addaura

Taking influences from the Norway traditional school of black metal, adding bits from Austrasian folklore and overwhelming its concept with the right amount of atmosphere, LOTH is now giving birth to its second album called Apocryphe.

With 3 original songs and a Guillaume De Machaut cover, the band goes straight for the throat and deliver its most aggressive recording yet.

Featuring Flore and The Austrasian Goat on Douce Dame Jolie.

Mastered by Julien Louvet. Artwork and layout by Jennie Zakrzewski.

RIYL: Blut Aus Nord, Aggaloch, Wolves in the Throne Room

Tracklisting:
1. Douce Dame Jolie
2. Mourir à Metz
3. Malmoth
4. Apocryphe