Norwegian blackened thrash grinders Amok have begun writing new full length

Blabbermouth reports Norwegian blackened thrash grinders Amok have begun the writing process for the band’s second full length album.

Norwegian death/thrash outfit Amok is currently writing material for a new studio album, Exodus Reversal Hex, which it hopes to begin recording this fall. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “Remembered With Uttermost Hatred”, “East Of The River Where Life Is Drunk”, “Triangular Corridors”, “Speak Up Your Sins, ‘Cause The Winds Are Howling From The Sea” and “A Glimpse Of His Splendor”.

Exodus Reversal Hex will mark the recording debut of Amok’s new vocalist, Kybermensch (Tri-Function Million, Cemetary Droids).

Amok is currently unsigned and seeking a new label home. Serious record companies can get in contact with the band by writing to amoklava@gmail.com.

I’m pretty stoked about this news.  Their debut, Necrospiritual Deathcore ( review ), was a huge surprise and one of my favorite releases of 2006.  If the new material is even half as good as Necrospiritual Deathcore, I’ll be pleased.  You can check out some samples over at their MySpace page.

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Scottish death grinders Man Must Die add second guitarist, preview clip for new album

Scottish death grinders Man Must Die have announced the addition of a new guitarist to the band’s ranks as well as posted a new audio sample from the band’s upcoming third full length effort, No Tolerance for Imperfection on the band’s MySpace page;

Well today we posted a second song from the new album which comes out on Aug 10th, the song is called “This Day is Black”, we hope you like it.

Also Man Must Die are delighted to announce that we have just recruited a second guitarist. After meeting and playing together on a recent European tour, we are proud to have on board Renne Hauffe, from German grinders Japanische Kampfhörspiele.

Renne brings a wealth of experience to Man Must Die along with a ferocious playing style and live performance. Alan McFarland says, “Renne just slotted right in, he’s a real fast learner and a super cool guy. He was able to play with us during some of the recent dates in Europe, learning the tunes in the back of the tourbus!”

We are all really excited about our new future, it will make a huge difference to Man Must Die’s live performance and we can’t wait to get out with our new line-up and play the new songs!

Renne is currenlty learning the new set for the forthcoming tours.

Based off of the two samples I’ve heard, I can’t say I’m impressed or looking forward to this release at all.  Hopefully the full album is better than the two sample tracks, but I rather doubt it.

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Armed For Apocalypse sign with Metal Blade Records imprint Ironclad Recordings

California-based death/sludge metallers Armed For Apocalypse have signed with Metal Blade Records imprint Ironclad Recordings and Siege Of Ameda Records.

Hello to anybody that pays attention to us as people or musicians. Today is a very cool day in the lives of the guys in Armed For Apocalypse. I don’t know how many times we have collectively bought, listened to, and loved CD’s that had the Metal Blade Records logo on the back, and thought how cool it must be to be in one of those bands. Well now, thanks to Trevor Phipps (vocalist for the almighty Unearth) we will have the opportunity to be one of them.

We are very happy to announce today that we have signed to Trevor’s imprint on Metal Blade called Iron Clad Recordings to release our debut record Defeat, which we now know will come out on September 15th in the United States and Canada.

We are very proud of this record and can’t wait for everyone to hear it in its entirety. We aren’t the type to toot our own horn or say how good we are, so all we can honestly say is that it’s heavy, and there are some riffs on it that will bring a smile to your face if you are in to heavy music.

We have simultaneously signed with Siege of Amida, or SOAR as they are commonly known, for the UK and Europe.

If you’re unfamiliar with Armed For Apocalypse, and chances are you’ve never heard of them before now, they’re a death/sludge band featuring members of The Abominable Iron Sloth, Will Haven and Ghostride.  The press release from Ironclad Recordings describes it as “a racket akin to the gates of hell opening; mixing the sludgy, down-tuned heavy riffs of Crowbar and Eyehategod with the white noise assault of Cursed, and the death metal groove of Entombed.”

I checked out the two tracks on the band’s MySpace page and was intrigued by what I heard.  It likely won’t appeal to all fans of “extreme” metal, but if you like sludgy death metal, it’s definitely worth a listen.  I’m interested to hear what the full length sounds like.

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Swedish death metallers Spawn of Possession complete new line-up

Swedish technical death metallers Spawn Of Possession have finally rounded out their line-up for the band’s upcoming full length effort;

Two very talented and competent musicians has recently joined Spawn Of Possession. Matthew Chalk (ex-Psycroptic) is going to handle the vocal and lyric writing. Christian Münzner (Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) is going to do the lead guitar part and unleash his madness into the multicolored and distorted universe of Spawn Of Possession.

The songwriting process has been going quite well these last few months and five new songs are now complete. Seven other songs are in the works.

Quick recap.  Everyone but founding guitarist Jonas Bryssling quit in the past year or two, so pretty much the entire line-up, minus Bryssling, has changed since 2006’s Noctambulant.  It’s looking more like Spawn Of Possession will be a part-time band, rather than full-time, with members scattered throughout Europe and Australia, but still, with the current line-up of Bryssling, Chalk, Münzner, Erlend Caspersen and Richard Schill, I still have high hopes for their next studio effort as the band clearly isn’t lacking in musical talent despite the many departures/replacements.

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Sarcolytic, featuring Jon Zig on vocals, set to release Unique Leader debut

Texas-based brutal death metallers Sarcolytic, featuring death metal cover artist / tattoo artist Jon Zig on vocals, fellow Images Of Violence members Mark Denton and Steven Watkins and Disgorge (US) drummer Ricky Myers, have completed work on the band’s debut full length offering, Thee Arcane Progeny, set for an August 25th release on Unique Leader Records.

The band have posted a track from the new effort, titled “The Seed Of All Beginnings” on the band’s MySpace page.

The material doesn’t sound particularly thrilling, pretty straight forward brutal death metal. It might be good, but probably not. I guess we’ll find out for sure in August.

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Gorgoroth complete recording new studio effort, Pest records over Gaahl's vocals for live album

Norwegian black metallers Gorgoroth have announced they’ve recently completed work on their ninth studio effort, titled Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt, due out October 21st in Europe and November 11th in the US via Regain Records.

The CD was recorded at Tomas Asklund’s Monolith Studio and features Infernus on guitar, Frank Watkins (Obituary) on bass, Pest on vocals and Tomas Asklund on drums.

Since Infernus wrote all the music for the album and extensive rehearsals and a pre-production recording had also been completed before second guitarist Tormentor rejoined the band last year, it was decided that it would be more convenient for Infernus to record all the guitars on the LP.

Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt was produced by Infernus and co-produced/engineered by Tomas Asklund. It will be mastered at the Cutting Room in Stockholm later this month.

Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt tentative track listing:

01. Introibo ad Alatare Satanas
02. Aneuthanasia
03. Building a Man
04. Prayer
05. Rebirth
06. Cleansing Fire
07. New Breed
08. Human Sacrifice
09. Satan-Prometheus

In addition to completing the new full length effort, Gorgoroth have also revealed that vocalist Pest has re-recorded the vocals for True Norwegian Black Metal – Live in Grieghallen, released last year on Regain Records.

Gorgoroth has recently spent time at Threeman Recordings in Stockholm with Nico Elgstrand (Entombed), where, among other things, Pest has successfully replaced the vocals for the True Norwegian Black Metal – Live in Grieghallen album. Infernus has already consulted legal representatives regarding this album, and is prepared to support Regain Records in the label’s ongoing legal conflict with two of the band’s ex-members, if any such support is needed.

The “live” album is actually a studio effort that was recorded with the “old” Gorgoroth line-up which consisted of Infernus, King ov Hell, Gaahl, session guitarist Teloch and session drummer Garghuf.  Infernus already re-recorded King ov Hell’s bass lines and now with Pest replacing Gaahl’s vocalst it looks like the album may finally be properly released without the legal cat fighting started by Gaahl and King ov Hell.

Sound stupid?  Yeah… it is… it’s Norwegian black metal, what do you expect?

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Defeated Sanity add former Disgorge vocalist AJ Magana

German technical brutal death metallers Defeated Sanity have announced the addition of vocalist AJ Magana (ex-Disgorge (US) & Deprecated) to the band’s ranks.

Recording line up for Chapters Of Repugnance confirmed:

Aj Magana
Christian Kuehn
Jacob Schmidt
Lille Gruber

This line up will also play the late August UK tour so get your asses out there!”

The band are currently working on their Willowtip Records debut, Chapters Of Repugnance.  Their last studio effort, 2007’s Psalms Of The Moribund, received an “Excellent” rating from Necro-tron.  I haven’t checked them out, but looks like I’m missing out.  I’ll have to pick that up soon!

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Italian death metallers Hour Of Penance rejoined by guitarist Enrico, work on new full length offering

Italian death metallers Hour Of Penance recently announced that they’ve been rejoined by founding guitarist Enrico Schettino and are currently working on their fourth full length studio effort.

The band is now back as a quintet and will perform for the first time with the renowned lineup at the Armageddon In The Park festival on August 1. Join us there!

Their Unique Leader Records debut, The Vile Conception, was released last year.  I own it, but haven’t gotten around to listening to it yet, although from what I’m hearing from a lot of people is it’s definitely an album that will appeal to fans of Unique Leader Records-flavored technical brutal death metal.

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