"Morgal" EP by Morgal

Black Metal from Finland.

Release Date 30 November 2018.

WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present MORGAL's highly anticipated new mini-album, Morgal, on CD and 12" vinyl format. Hailing from the forever-fertile Finnish black metal underground, MORGAL are one of that scene's best-kept secrets. With two of its members not even yet into their 20s, these ravenous young men have crafting absolutely electric, beWITCHing metal since their formation in 2014. To date, their releases have been incredibly limited or just plain impossible to attain - their debut album, 2016's Käärmesielu, was released in an edition of only 20 copies - but with Morgal, their wolfish cry shall now be heard far and wide. Fence-sitters and the false, your days are numbered.

Comprising a mere 15 minutes, the four songs making up Morgal are some of the most immediately exciting heavy metal of recent times, but draped in the velvety wings of ancient blackness. Each of these anthems literally explodes from the speakers with a rabid intensity and cocksure exuberance that are simply impossible to resist, each a hideous, hungry torrent of wild soloing, near-chaotically careening rhythm, and frothing-mad vox. They all exude the ageless wisdom of true black METAL - so ageless, in fact, that you'd be forgiven for mistaking Morgal as the work of very old men - but given frantic flight through youthful elan that's enviously advanced for their age.Morgal is a chain-breaking, sword-drawing, spell-invoking experience like no other...and then, as explosively as it began, it's over.

Band Members:
Lord Warmoon - Bass,Vocals
SS Exiler - Drums
Crusher - Guitar

Digital and CD (Werewolf Records, Bandcamp)
https://werewolfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/morgal

www.facebook.com/MorgalOfficial/

"Den Sista Vilobädden" by Isgärde

Pagan Black Metal, Sweden.

Release 16 November 2018.

Isgärde is a solo project from Öland, founded by Somath in 2016, this is the artist behind all instruments and vocals. His work is based on the main idea to create black metal with a lyrical concept around the Swedish island Öland, with themes about solitude and nature. Soundwise, the music is shaped by heavy melodies and hints of both folk- and viking metal conveying into an atmospheric style of pagan black metal, with great melodies in their riffs.  Recommended!

Digital (Isgärde/Bandcamp)
https://isgarde.bandcamp.com/album/den-sista-vilob-dden

https://www.facebook.com/isgardeblackmetal/

Band Members:
Somath: Vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards.

"Безглуздість!" by Krukh

Atmospheric and Experimental Black Metal from US.

Released 26 October 2018.

Krukh debut album came out through Fallen Empire Records on the 26 of October following their Split "Torment Is Flesh" that came out on tape back in June under the same label. The album and tracks are in Ukranian but it translates to Absurdity.

Krukh are a three member band with Shawn Eldridge of Abysmal Gates and Death Fortress on the Drums,  Nizam Salimbayev and Markov Soroka (also member of Tchornobog, Aureole, Drown) from Russia and Ukraine on the strings and vocals. Three very gifted musicians that come from very diverse backgrounds, embodying their heritage through their music. "Безглуздість!" is a really good album full of deep emotion and craftsmanship.

"An unholy trinity of musicians creating a caustic torrent of melodic whorror."

Pre-orders for the cassette and LP are up on the Fallen Empire store now, until the 18th November.

Digital (Krukh & Fallen Empire Records/Bandcamp)
https://krukh.bandcamp.com
http://fallenempirerecords.com

Band Members:
Shawn Eldridge - Drums
Nizam Salimbayev - Lead Guitars
Markov Soroka - Guitars / Bass / Vocals

"Necroroots" EP by Necroroots

Black Metal from Mexico.

Released 12 January 2018.

Necroroots self titled debut EP was released this year through Silentium in Foresta Records on CD format. Necroroots are a two man band from Mexico with a very raw sound influenced by bands like Burzum and Darkthrone with lyrics about liberating the mind from religion…really wicket stuff remaining faithful to the rusty rot of the origins of Black metal in its most raw, sharp and deathly way. A dark and atmospheric EP you’ll enjoy.

Band Members:
Olimpo: Drums and Bass
Knot: Guitars and Vocals

Digital (Necroroots/Bandcamp)
https://necroroots.bandcamp.com/album/necroroots-ep
https://silentiuminforestarecords.bandcamp.com/album/necroroots-necroroots

https://www.facebook.com/Necrorootsofficial/

"Integra" EP by Anomalie

Black Metal from Austria.

Release Date 9 November 2018.

Anomalie is an Austrian Atmospheric Black Metal band founded by multi-instrumentalist Marrok, also member of Harakiri for the Sky. Authenticity,  creativity and passion since 2011, is the foundament where the band's will lies to surpass the past by constantly evolving those intense soundscapes that became their trademark.

The new EP 'Integra' delivers almost half an hour of haunting atmospheric music that underlines what made ANOMALIE's most recent full-length release 'Visions' such a farreaching and emotional experience.

The four highly dynamic new tracks comprising the EP reveal Marrok's strong connection to his black metal roots clearer than ever, all while opening the gates to a profound musical voyage telling of metaphysical reincarnation and ways to manifest your very own identity beyond social and cultural barriers.

ANOMALIE lineup 2018
Christian "Marrok" Brauch - vocals, guitars, bass, synths, percussions
Lukas Schlintl - drums

Digital, Gatefold LP and CD (Art Of Propaganda Records, Bandcamp)
https://artofpropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/integra
https://anomalie-official.bandcamp.com/album/integra-ep

ORDER INFO
AOP Records (US Shop) https://www.indiemerch.com/aoprecords
AOP Records (EU Shop) https://shop.aoprecords.de

https://www.facebook.com/The.Anomalie.Experience

"The Last Supper" by Non Est Deus

Black Metal from Bamberg, Germany.

CD Release Date December 2018 through A Pile Of Graves Records.

Band Info:
Non Est Deus. There is no god. And if there was a god, he has forsaken us.
Only corruption and greed. And this is your messiah? And he is claimed to redeem us?
A rotten teeth in the mouth of society.
Religion. The hostage of the world.
Spring 2018. To much hate to stay silent. The album „The Last Supper“ was released. To fill the deaf ears of a robotic society with anger and truth. One project. One goal. The end of all religion.

Album Info:
"The Last Supper“ is a concept album. A human being is called by a voice to climb up a mountain to present its own body as a sacrifice to the gods. But this time in a different way.
Limbs are cut off and made to dishes like eyeball on caramel sauce and steak on vegetables.
Four songs describe the sacrifice and the pure madness accompanies with it.
In the end the supper is a symbol for the self-destructive submission that’s comes with every religion on this planet.

Digital and CD (Non Est Deus, Bandcamp and A Pile Of Graves Records)
https://apileofgraves.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-supper?fbclid=IwAR2l2d00koA-kv7B_c6t8BW765Bp_gB0rUUtJ1k6uYh-xuU4E_CeO1-cdf4

http://www.apileofgraves.com
https://nonestdeus.bandcamp.com

"Visits From The Nighthag Part 1" by The Projectionist

Black Metal from Canada.

Release Date 31-October-2018.

The Projectionist (formerly Lord Matzigkeitus) is a project of pure Hellthundering black metal. Invoking spellcasting through isolation, and darkness.

Ever since laying the foundation of THE PROJECTIONIST in 2015, Lörd Matzigkeitus (Diabolus Amator, The Black Sorcery, Thy Sepulchral Moon, ex-Idolatry) and his tenebrous army have pushed the boundaries of black metal cult. Each release morphing to a new direction from its previous sonic hellscape under the cloak of his arcane, twisting and evolving voice.

“Visits from the NightHag Part 1” is the glorious theatrical third full length of the band, released via Appalachian Noise Records on vinyl LP format (in 3 different color variations, limited to 300 copies).

Lörd Matzigkeitus informs:

“Visits from the NightHag Part 1 is the first installment of the Projectionist’s two-part magnum opus. A jarring, unsettling concept album that unravels the story of a projectionist, accosted by night terrors that induce sleep paralysis so powerful his limbs are to be amputated. The vicious, cryptic NightHag covets what magics she knows him to possess. She will summon all the forces of hell to steal them from him and slaughter all he holds dear...”

Explore a masterpiece of subversive, haunting orchestrations, laid to waste by a building fury of raw black metal from the coldest reaches of the North. Told in the manner of a Shakespearean play with guest vocals from Caeser Tiberius (Ides of Winter), the arcane Aven Haunts and a funeral choir.

Black metal’s borders are being smashed down. Come venture beyond the walls of what was....

Digital and Vynil (The Projectionist, Appalachian Noise Records/Bandcamp)
https://thetrueprojectionist.bandcamp.com/album/visits-from-the-nighthag-part-1
http://appalachiannoiserecords.com/product/the-projectionist-visits-from-the-nighthag-part-1-lp
www.appalachiannoiserecords.bandcamp.com


https://www.facebook.com/The-Projectionist-1021842331170650/

"Herbstwind" by Ka-tet

Black Metal/Dark Metal, Germany.

Released 28 October 2018

Herbstwind is the only debut album of this band from Thuringia, independently published in bandcamp this year, originally released in June 2013. Ka-tet, the name of the band and some of their lyrical content pays homage to Stephen King literature. The term Ka-tet is borrowed from the eight-volume cycle The Dark Tower, meaning a community of beings pursuing the same goal. Their music is dark and atmospheric and some how melancholic.

Their sound is characterized by a melancholy mood with acoustic guitar parts gently increasing and building into intense melodic profundity up to furious outbursts of the 8-string guitar. The complex drums and deep bass emphasise this dark atmosphere. The vocals vary from deep growls to high screaming and whispering, which gives the voice a great dynamic. Their expressive texts pick up topics that deal primarily with the depths of human existence.

Digital (Ka-tet/Bandcamp)
https://ka-tetmusic.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/katetband

Band Members:
Charles: Guitars
Thomas: Vocals, Bass
Martin: Drums

"Illustra Nos" by Weltschmerz

Black Metal, Netherlands.

Release 26 October 2018.

Killer traditional sound of the 90's blended with some modern and progressive elements, fast, raw and aggressive style with lyrics covering philosophical and existentialism themes.

Weltschmerz is a Dutch black metal band known for their ferocious live performances. The band was founded in 2009 releasing several demos and its first full-length album in 2014 entitled Odium Humani Generis through Immortal Frost Productions. The band has since then been taking Europe by storm with live appearances in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark and Switzerland.

Their second full-length "Illustra Nos" came out on October 26, 2018 through Redefining Darkness Records, check it out.


Digital and CD (Redefining Darkness Records/Bandcamp)
https://redefiningdarknessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/weltschmerz-illustra-nos

https://www.facebook.com/weltschmerzmetal/

"Fragmente eines gebrochenen Lebens" by Stardust

Depressive Black Metal, Germany.

Released 26 October 2018.

After a series of demos, splits and a compilation "Fragmente eines gebrochenen Lebens" is Stardust full length debut album. Powerful atmospheric and dark depressive black metal where one travels through the agony and despair of a broken life and its turmoils. The band continues to create a consistently exciting, captivating and enchantingly beautiful soundscapes.

Digital and CD (Satrdust/Bandcamp & Wolfmond Production)
https://stardust-dsbm.bandcamp.com/album/fragmente-eines-gebrochenen-lebens
http://shop.wolfmond-production.de/de/home/950-stardust-fragmente-eines-gebrochenen-lebens-digi.html

https://www.facebook.com/Stardustdsbm/

Band Members:
Nattestid: Vocals, Bass, Lyrics
Sarghas:  Guitars, Keyboards, Drums, Vocals (clean)
Nordmann: Bass, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

"Servants of the Cold Night" by Andeis

Black Metal.

Released 26-October-2018

Andeis are a three man band that I’m not sure where they are from but their debut album “Servants of the Cold Night” came out through Fallen Empire Records…killer malevolent raw metal and chaotic atmospheres.

Band members:
Laignech - Vocals, Bass, Keyboard
Æolythe - Guitar
Verwoesting - Drums

Lyrics written in the ancient Gothic language by Laignech.

Digital and LP (Andeis & Fallen Empire/Bandcamp)
https://andeis.bandcamp.com/album/servants-of-the-cold-night
Store:
https://store.fallenempirerecords.com/products?search=andeis

"Járnviðr" by Utstøtt

Epic/Pagan Black Metal from US.

Released 15 October 2018.

A duo from Portland that plays Viking and Epic Black Metal. They have released Járnviðr album through Celestial Oak Productions an album that explores the darker and lesser visited themes of ever-revered norse legends. The newest and darkest album from Utstøtt is written around the arcane and foreboding iron-gilded wood, Járnviðr.

This album was written from 2014-2016, and recorded over three years from 2015 to 2018, finally seeing release in October 2018.

Digital (Utstøtt/Bandcamp)
https://utstott.bandcamp.com


Band Members:
Navnløs: All Instruments, Vocals, Songwriting.
Stormning: Drums, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming.

"Spectral Heraldry" by Gitrog

Black Metal from Germany.

Released 13 October 2018

Gitrog is one man band founded by Schemen, the man behind all instruments, voices and lyrics.
Spectral Heraldry is the first album that came out on 13th of October and release on tape by Worship Tapes on 100 handnumbered, professionally manufactured cassettes and can also be purchased by ordering through worshiptapes@gmx.de.

An excellent album with tons of variation on the vocals, with the music being dark, brooding and menacing.. really sick stuff I recommend.

Digital and Cassettes (Gitrog/Bandcamp and Worship Tapes)
https://gitrog.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/worshiptapes

"Credo" by Akitsa

Black Metal from Quebec, Canada.

"The new AKITSA album “Credo” is out now available on CD and can be streamed on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music (vinyl and cassette pre-orders through Hospital Productions will now ship early Dec). Quebec/Canada’s reigning most cult black metal band pretty much ever, AKITSA approach their 20th year as one of the most uncompromising, primal and singular underground black metal bands in the scene.  “Credo” is AKITSA’s most towering, violent, and hypnotic album yet and defines itself as 2018’s unparalleled black metal opus." (Profound Lore Records)

Release Date October 2018.

Digital and CD (Akitsa, Bandcamp and Profound Lore Records)
https://akitsa.bandcamp.com/album/credo
https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/akitsa-new-album-credo-out-now/
https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/products-page/plr-items/akitsa-credo/

https://www.facebook.com/sangnordique/

"Unbound" by Sargeist

Black Metal/Melodic Black Metal from Finland.

Released Date October 2018.

"...‘Unbound’ is both important and imposing as a black metal album in 2018 for its undeniable melodic scent and violently classic expression. It is poignant reminder of the effective thrust and utter nihilistic furor that black metal holds without complication or feigned modernism. Beyond what Sargeist represent in black metal’s torrid landscape of indifference and parody ‘Unbound’ is a vital and energetic guitar album that channels and distills the undying will of man to destroy everything vital for his existence and for that reason I have to highly recommend it. The experience and composition are both undeniably brilliant..." (by Grizzly Butts Review)
https://grizzlybutts.com/2018/10/25/sargeist-unbound-2018-review/

Digital and CD (W.T. C. Productions, Bandcamp)
https://wtcproductions.bandcamp.com/album/unbound

https://www.facebook.com/thetruesargeist/

"Rinascita" by Homselvareg

Black Metal from Italy.

Released October 2018.

This North Italian horde have unleashed their third full length album "Rinascita", a very powerful an impressive misanthropic assault of blasting drum work and fast ferocious guitar riffs in hand with great melodies and atmospheres. A brilliant release not to be missed.

Band Members:
Plague - Voice
Bazzy Mogan - Guitar
Gerion - Bass
Nioin - Drum
Vestigian - Guitar

Digital and CD (Throats Productions, Bandcamp)
https://throatsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/rinascita

https://www.facebook.com/homselvareg?__tn__=*s-R

"F.E.R.T." by Baise Ma Hache

Black metal band from Savoie, French alpes.

Frappez, Entrez, Rompez Tout!!! (Hit, Enter, Break All) with their vicious war anthems!

Release Date September 2018.

Band Members:
Thorwald (Singer & lyrics)
Jon (all instruments)

Digital and CD Digipack (Baise Ma Hache, Bandcamp and Hammerbolt Productions)
https://bmhdivision.bandcamp.com/album/f-e-r-t
https://www.hammerbolt.pl/product/baise-ma-hache-f-e-r-t-digibook-cd

https://www.facebook.com/BaiseMaHache/

"Exitium" by Primaire

Raw Black Metal from Germany.

Primaire is a new formation of veterans from Bavaria (featuring members of Anencephaly, HateCult of the Cunt, Lower Than Zero, Ysbryd and Blutwald) who just unleashed this year their debut album "Exitium" on  2nd-October-2018. What first grabbed my attention was the great art-cover of the album created by Astaroth Cerebre and it didn't disappoint when I hit the play. Primaire plays traditional raw black metal, fierce and powerful with dynamic catchy riffs but also with excellent dark atmospheres and melodies the most elitists will approve off. Their themes are based on anti-religion, death and hate. The only negative is their tracks are perhaps a bit short but on the bright side it won't bore you and is what makes you crave for more!

Recorded between January and March 2018 at Khold Hell Studios Augsburg
Music and Lyrics by Gestalt | Omega written by Nihil
Artwork by Astaroth Cerebre | Logo by Pest Designs
Photo by H. Photography

Line up:
Nihil - Guitars
Kadaver - Drums
Gestalt - Guitars
Khaos - Bass
Isengrin - Vocals


Digital format/merchandise (Primaire, Bandcamp)
https://primaire.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/primaireblackmetal/

"Bàrdachd Cogaidh" by BELLICISTE

Black Metal from New Zealand (band currently resides in Slovakia or Serbia not sure).

Released 22 September 2018.

"Corrosive black METAL returns!! The second album by BELLICISTE - the sole creation of Krigeist (BARSHASKETH, BRON). Amid tales of war, honour and Germanic, Māori and Celtic mythology, BELLICISTE deliver blistering raw metal; a ceaseless onslaught of killer riffs!" (Todestrieb Records)

"Bàrdachd Cogaidh" presents old styled, furious and hateful Black Metal with a slashing sound and with eight black venomous psalms that are both summoning a devastating aura and in the same time keeping the material floating with raw sombre melancholies and infinite paralyzing darkness. (Sigillvm Tenebrae Records)


Digital and CD (Belliciste, Sigillvm Tenebrae Records/Bandcamp, Werewolf Promotion and Todestrieb Records)
https://sigillvmtenebrae.bandcamp.com/album/b-rdachd-cogaidh
https://belliciste.bandcamp.com/album/b-rdachd-cogaidh
http://werewolf-webshop.pl/
https://todestrieb.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/belliciste/about/?ref=page_internal

"The Luciferian Crown" by ARCHGOAT

Black Death Metal, Finland.

Released 14 September 2018.

With grim reliability, ARCHGOAT discharge yet more pustulant diabolic foulness into a world increasing moulded in their image.

‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a frighteningly-focused vision of hellish corruption, unsentimental, morally abhorrent and steeped in a violent horror all too real.

Contemporaneous with the uncanny classics of Finnish death and black metal – ARCHGOAT share the same penchant for mind-altering atmospherics, blurring the mystical song-craft of first wave black metal with guttural punk, primitive thrash, the sonorous barbarism of vintage death metal and grindcore that reeks of putrefaction.

Since forming in 1989 ARCHGOAT have revolved around an inner circle all their own, refining their idiosyncratic primitivism - ‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a mirror crushed against nature, a portal through egocentric decadence into the pile of tortured corpses in your psyche.

Digital, Vynil and CD (Archgoat/Bandcamp)
https://archgoat666.bandcamp.com/album/the-luciferian-crown

Store (Debemur Morti Productions)
https://www.debemur-morti.com/en/14-archgoat-shop

https://www.facebook.com/archgoat.official

Band Members:
Ritual Butcherer: Guitars
Lord Angelslayer: Bass, Vocals
Goat Aggressor: Drums

:: Additionnal Infos ::
Recorded at Temple of Black Moon.
Produced by Werwolf.
Mixed by Teemu Velin.
Music and lyrics by Ritual Butcherer.
Cover art by Chris Moyen.
Layout by Kontamination Design.