#30-Inside the darkness

Upcoming albums
Since their unholy inception
in 1995, death metal miscreants
ABORTED have been one of
the pioneers of the genre and
have annihilated friend and foe
with relentless intensity and an
uncompromising mix of flawless
technicality and raw emotion.
With each of these 10 new tracks,
ABORTED dives deep into the
vaults of VHS cassettes and stories
that have been haunting us all for
decades. Each song pays tribute
to a horror cult classic and ranges
from obligatory cuts such as ‘The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (to
be found on “Death Cult”) or
‘Halloween’ (‘The Shape Of Hate’)
to the more recent ‘The Mist’ to be
discovered on ‘Malevolent Haze’.
True to themselves, it wouldn’t be
an Aborted reference without an
odious homage to none other than
shit daemon ‘The Golgothan’ (sadly
defeated by Silent Bob through the
use of deodorant, cheeky bastard!).
«Vault of Horrors» will be
released on March 15, 2024.
With over thirty years of active,
nefarious service under their spikes
and bulletbelts, Necrophobic are
undisputed legends of the death and
black metal scene. Formed in 1989
by drummer Joakim Sterner, the
Stockholm blackhearts propagated a
singular and fearless vision from the
very start. Necrophobic established a
bold and vivid identity of their own,
conjuring a densely melodic, but
endlessly wicked take on macabre
extreme metal that countless lesser
bands have since emulated.
With their 10th studio album, "In
the Twilight Grey", the Swedish
blackened death metal masters are
taking an even deeper plunge into
pitch black shadows.
"In the Twilight Grey" doesn't only
offer classic Necrophobic treasures
such as "Stormcrow" or the title
track, but also solemn journeys
into somberness like the captivating
"Nordanvind".
In the Twilight Grey will be released
on March 15,, 2024.
VLTIMAS have been legends since
the dawn of metal. Flo Mounier
has been drumming for Cryptopsy
since their earliest exhumations of
the Canadian underground. Rune
Eriksen took hold of axe-wielding
duties for the second coming of
Mayhem. And who could forget
David Vincent, the larger-than-life
vocalist for Morbid Angel.
With new album ‘Epic’, VLTIMAS
ascend to even greater Satanic heights.
“Miserere” howls across a blackened
sky, blistered by tremolo picking that’s
more piercing than a siren’s call. True
to its name, “Scorcher” is primed for
face-melting, with blasts that blaze
than a forest fire. “Undefeated, we are
sure to remain”, Vincent bellows with
ghoulish bravado over the constantly
building “Invictus”.
You already know their names, but
with ‘Epic’, VLTIMAS are mightier
than ever.
Epicwill be released on March 15,
2024.
"A Mortal Binding", the muchanticipated
follow-up to 2019's
"The Ghost Of Orion", finds the
Yorkshire-based quintet delighting in
anxiety, loss, and toil to resplendent
effect. From the raw distress of "Her
Dominion" and twisted horror of
"Thornwyck Hymn" to the funerary
violins of the 11-minute monolith
"The Apocalyptist" and the classicfeeling
"The 2nd Of Three Bells",
"A Mortal Binding" is pinnacle
MY DYING BRIDE. If "Songs Of
Darkness, Words Of Light" (2004)
elevated the band to new heights
and "A Map Of All Our Failures"
(2012) expanded upon the group's
mid-tens grandeur, then "A Mortal
Binding" stages MY DYING BRIDE's
next exultant phase of elegiac misery.
For over three decades, MY DYING
BRIDE has been the voice of the
hopeless and broken, combining
haunting sounds with crushing
misery and melancholy. With their
signature sound they've shaped the
doom metal scene like barely any
other act and integrated both soft
violin melodies and violent death
metal growls into their music,
while always staying strictly loyal to
themselves.
‘A Mortal Binding’ will be
released on April 19, 2024.
KAWIR formed in the Greek black
metal scene of the 90s and have
been exploring Greek mythology,
literature, and mysteries for 30 years -
and no other band really captures the
essence of those stories and times the
same way.
With ‘Kydoimos’ KAWIR has
reached an ambitious point they've
been working towards for a couple of
records now.
An essential album for fans of Rotting
Christ, Necromantia, Varathron, etc!
The name of the new album derives
from one of the Makhai Ancient
Greek daemons (personifications/
spirits) of war. Kydoimos in particular
refers to the personification of the
cacophony and bedlam of battle.
“Kydoimos” sees KAWIR achieve
new heights in both unrelenting
heaviness and epic atmosphere!
Kydoimos will be released on April
19, 2024.
When you talk about Satanic
Death Metal, you can't get past
Glen Benton and Deicide.
6 years have passed since
the last album, Overtures of
Blasphemy 2018, but in 2024
Deicide want to do it again.
Death metal legends Deicide
mark their devilish return with
their new album, Banished by
Sin.
Produced by Deicide and
engineered by Kling and
Nordberg between November
2022 and May 2023, the album
was tracked with the 1990s
in mind but imbued with a
present-day auditory aesthetic.
Deicide wanted a live, ballsto-the-wall
sound and got there
by recruiting famed mixing
and mastering guru Josh
Wilbur (Gojira, Lamb of God).
Benton's multi-headed vocals,
Quirion and Taylor Nordberg's
wicked riffs/wild solos, and
Asheim's earsplitting drums
jump out of the speakers
violently
“Banished by Sin” will be
released on April 26, 2024.
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