hour of penance

Italian death metal band HOUR OF PENANCE have announced “Sedition” as the title of their Prosthetic Records’ debut, and fifth album overall. “Sedition” will be released March 27 in North America, April 2 in the UK and April 6 in mainland Europe. The album was recorded at Cellar Studio in Rome with producer Stefano Morabito and is the follow up to 2010′s acclaimed “Paradogma” (Unique Leader), which Decibel described as:

“a bludgeoning slab of death metal in the Morbid Angel/Immolation vein…surprisingly catchy machine-gun riffs, blasting drum patterns and the occasional nod to grindcore brethren Nasum and Napalm Death. Gleefully damned…planet-cracking intensity. 9/10.”

The band will hit North American shores for the first time the week of release, to support The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile and Skeletonwitch on a full U.S. tour, which includes a stop at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Pre-order the CD on its own or along with a T-shirt or hoodie now at the Prosthetic Store.

See the band live:

03 March 2012, Netherland, Tilburg, Neurotic Deathfest
17 June 2012, France, Clisson, Hellfest
05 – 06 – 07 July 2012 Extreme Fest Austria
05 – 06 – 07 July 2012 Extreme Fest Germany
05 – 06 – 07 July 2012 Extreme Fest Swiss

Forged in the dark shadows of “The Holy Capital,” this most unholy of quartets have steadily been making a name for themselves as one of the most intense, talented and impressive — both in the studio and live onstage — modern death metal bands around.

Unleashing a tour de force in maniacal death metal brutality, a celebration of music in its darkest and most inhuman form and with a brand new worldwide signing to Prosthetic Records, HOUR OF PENANCE have ascended to an even greater height of precision and savagery. Every population has its cancer, every movement its enemies. Be the wolf amongst the flock. Embrace the barbarity!

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark J. Vieira
Director of Promotions,
Prosthetic Records
mark@prostheticrecords.com
310.391.5569 Ext. 308
prostheticrecords.com
lostshepherdrecordings.net

The extreme, progressive Norwegian metal band Ram-Zet reached an agreement with Buil2Kill Records/Nadir Music for the release of their next album called “Freaks in Wonderland”.
The full lenght will be out with physical and digital worldwide distribution on march, 2012. Stay Tuned!

http://www.ram-zet.com – http://www.reverbnation.com/ramzet

The band will hit North American shores for the first time the week of release, to support The Black Dahlia Murder, alongside Nile and Skeletonwitch on a full US tour, which includes a stop at New England Metal Fest; see dates in the “On Tour” section below.

Infamous Greetings from Brasil!

We are ORRÖR (Grindcore/Hardcore Rio de Janeiro-Brazil) and we are release in mid-March, our CD “Monstro Brasilis.”
A grindcore massacre divided into 13 tracks, recorded in high quality and high-level graphic material.

Our album will be released by Carnificina Records (Brazil) and 4 more labels (europe, North America, Asia & South America). We are anticipating the album’s physical release and available for download the “Monstro Brasilis” completed for you. Unreleased.

We ask the help of the underground for reviewing our prior first-hand, those who have an aversion to digital copies, please collaboration with at least some note or disclosure, we need you. Work is good and promises for 2012.

“ORRÖR is the new band Pellizzetti (Ex-BODHUM´S drummer/vocal – Grindcore/Brazil) with production of Perazzo (ENTERRO Black Metal/Brazil) the live band has several members of the Grindcore/Death Rio de Janeiro scene, physical release official March 15, with the first show scheduled to debut in April with other big bands”

ORRÖR GRINDCORE BRASIL
http://www.reverbnation.com/orrorbrasil
http://www.myspace.com/orrorbrasil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sSD6TuN-w

FULL PLAYER “MONSTRO BRASILIS” ORIGINAL ORDER
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3543795

artwork from their upcoming 7" titled Savior

Detroit Michigan’s spastic noise driven grind assult Sender Receiver has released a new song titled Faith Healer and artwork from their upcoming 7″ titled Savior.

The album was recorded by Dane Smith at Empire Productions in Roseville, Michigan while the artwork was provided by Mike from Destroyer Art. While an official release date has yet to be set Its due out in early 2012 on Give Praise for vinyl and Mannequin Rein for cd/digital.

sender reciever band

Guitarist Maxxwell Lange had the following to say:
“We’ve had a crazy last year, took some time off from touring to do real life stuff like have kids, work, and focus on writing music. Were getting back in the saddle and getting ready to get things back in full swing. We are about to drop this new ep in the coming months, its a good example of where were going. Were also planning out some cool tours, hitting Canada and Europe plus some select small runs in the US. Followed by recording a full length finally, can’t even begin to say how excited i am! Keep looking out for more updates, and thanks for everyone who has kept supporting us!”

http://youtu.be/pamPGq6XH84 (link to new song on youtube)

VIOCRACY (2012) by Eliran Kantor (Sodom, Atheist, Testament...)

AGGRESSION Viocracy XM 106 CD Release date: 27.01.2012 Barcode: 8436039064874

Track list:
01. False Flags
02. Chemical Slavery
03. Viocracy
04. MK Ultra
05. Get Mad
06. Awake Awareness
07. Human Nature
08. Dehumanized
09. Victims of Bias
10.- YYZ (Rush cover)

Description:
2nd album of what’s, undoubtely, the best spanish Thrash Metal band. May not be the most popular (we don’t have such powerful marketing strategies here), but definitely THE BEST in every sense. A more mature, serious and technical work than their already great debut stablishing an own style with too much quality in there. This album gathers every aspect that a good Thrash Metal lover demands: a personaly style, perfect compositions, great choruses, sheer intensity, awesome technical skills, top-noch production… This may be one of Thrash Metal’s high light for 2012!! For lovers of bands like VIO-LENCE, SLAYER, TOXIK, EXODUS, REALM, FORBIDDEN…

Band Website:
www.myspace.com/aggressionband

Houwitser is proud to announce that their original singer and frontman Mike van Mastrigt is back in their line-up. Mike already teamed up for some shows.

Together with their new drummer Marten van Kruijssen and frontman Mike van Mastrigt, Houwitser will march on to Russia this February to do some shows. The new line-up is writing songs for the 6th full length cd. More news about the progress and release of this album can be expected in the near future.

New member info:
Mike van Mastrigt – Vocals. Known as founding member and original frontman of Sinister.
Marten van Kruijssen – Drums. Is also a member of the bands Dictated and Nibirus.

Houwitser info:
Website: http://www.houwitser.nl
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/houwitser
Contact: info@houwitser.nl

Terror Legion:
Mike van Mastrigt:       Vocals
Michel Alderliefsten:    Guitar
Richard Gielen:          Guitar
Marten van Kruijssen: Drums
Ramon Ploeg:              Bass

Biography:
Houwitser originally started in 1997 by Michel (ex-Sinister) and Aad (Sinister) completing the line-up with vocalist Mike (ex-Sinister) and bassplayer Theo (Hail of Bullets). The debut album’Death.. but not buried’ was released by Displeased Records in the spring of 1999 and got great reviews and good sales. The end of that year Houwitser parted with their singer Mike.
Houwitser’s second album ‘Embrace Damnation’ was recorded with vocalist Arjaan who left in 2001 and got replaced by Stan Blonk. Houwitser signed with Osmose Productions and ‘Rage inside the womb’ their third album saw the light of day in 2002. This was the start of a tour all over the entire European continent.
In 2004, after the release of the album ‘Damage assessment‘, the band split up. Displeased Records re-released the debut album ‘Death… but not buried’ with 7 bonus tracks and new artwork.

The split of Houwitser left a bad vibe with Michel and Stan. In 2008 the Dutch death metal-commandos wrote a new chapter in the history of Houwitser, with the rebirth of the ferocious Terror Legion. In 2009 Houwitser signed a new record deal with the American Sevared Records, who released in early 2010 the 5th full-length album of Houwitser ‘Bestial Atrocity’.
The Dutch death metal commandos are back to strike again, heavier and more brutal than ever! Marching over stages, blasting their thundering death metal. Watch out for Houwitser!

Discography:
Death… but not Buried, Displeased Records 1998
Embrace Damnation, Displeased Records, 2000
March to Die, 7 Inch vinyl, Displeased records 2001
Rage inside the Womb, Osmose Productions, 2002, also on vinyl.
Damage Assessment, Osmose Productions, 2003, also on vinyl.
Sledgehammer Redemption, Promo, Self-release, 2009
Bestial Atrocity, Sevared Records, 2010

DEICIDE (us) jumped on the PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR bill 2012! God blasphemers DEICIDE are still one of the sickest death metal bands around and without doubt a huge influence to alot of bands out there. We are proud to announce their participation at the upcoming edition of PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR! Remember tracks like “Sacrificial Suicide”, “Dead By Dawn ” or “Once Upon A Cross” and get ready for some satanic Death Metal!

Order Here: http://www.metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse
Cannibal Corpse’s “Demented Aggression” from the album “Torture”.

01. Demented Aggression
02. Sarcophagic Frenzy
03. Scourge of Iron
04. Encased in Concrete
05. As Deep As the Knife Will Go
06. Intestinal Crank
07. Followed Home Then Killed
08. The Strangulation Chair
09. Caged…Contorted
10. Crucifier Avenged
11. Rabid
12. Torn Through

Formed in 1988, Buffalo born/Tampa raised Cannibal Corpse helped found, manipulate and transcend the very boundaries of death metal beginning with the scandalously controversial debut, Eaten Back To Life. Raising the eyebrows of inquisitive metalheads and incensed parents and politicians, the record – produced by Scott Burns at the now renowned Morrisound Studios – was more extreme and confrontational than anything the metal genre had ever known. As a result of the band’s brilliantly gruesome cover art, grisly lyrics and song titles like “Hammer Smashed Face,” “Meat Hook Sodomy” and “Addicted To Vaginal Skin,” follow-up records Butchered At Birth (1991) and Tomb Of The Mutilated (1992) were met with further contempt by the likes of such organized censorship leagues as the PMRC. In just three years, the sale of Cannibal Corpse merchandise was (temporarily) prohibited in Australia, Korea and New Zealand (in fact, the sale of Butchered At Birth and the performance of those three records is still forbidden in Germany). But dissuaded they were not.

Proving technical dexterity, diabolic vocal grunts and a penchant for serial killers, zombies and gore of all shapes, sizes and textures, Cannibal Corpse won over the hearts of many a metal extremist and have since become a harrowing household name. Since the bands inception they have sold millions of albums world wide and show no sign of slowing or bowing down to the ever changing metal genre. Massive tours throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as Australia and South America only underscored the band’s staying power…and all this with zero commercial radio presence and minimal video play (although the band did appear in the Hollywood blockbuster, Ace Ventura – Pet Detective).

The momentum continued with the 1996 release of Vile, the first Cannibal record to feature former Monstrosity throat George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher following the departure of Chris Barnes. Any skepticism over the new voice behind the mighty Corpse was quickly put to rest. Simply put, Vile slayed from beginning to end and became the first ever death metal record to enter the prestigious Billboard charts. Over the next few years, relentlessly touring, bolstered musicianship and progressively more potent recordings saw the band increase in popularity within the underground and beyond.

After the mass success of 2004′s The Wretched Spawn and some personnel changes (longtime guitarist Jack Owen fled the band in 2004 to carry on his commitments with his rock project, Adrift. Origin axe-master Jeremy Turner filled in for the band during their remaining tours that year before Malevolent Creation/Hate Plow/Solstice guitarist Rob Barrett, who played on Cannibal Corpse’s infamous releases The Bleeding and Vile records, rejoined the band as a fulltime member.), Cannibal Corpse has returned to the Death Metal frontlines with the pungently eloquent majesty that is Kill.

Simply titled but meticulously assembled, Kill was recorded with producer Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal/ex-Morbid Angel) at Mana Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida. The tenth record of their storied career, each track basks in its own claustrophobic abrasiveness and maniacal subject matter. From the onset of the fiery “The Time To Kill Is Now,” guitarists Barrett and Pat O’Brien, vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz pummel with a renewed sense of urgency. Fast, furious and scrupulously timed, the tune is a palpable reminder that Cannibal remains a force to be reckoned. “Make Them Suffer” sears with an old school Possessed vibe (a band to whom Cannibal has paid homage to on several occasions), while “Necrosadistic Warning,” replete with a barrage of blistering solo work by O’Brien whose guitar deftness is often underestimated, comes riddled with visions of zombies sexually gratifying themselves with the body parts of the beings they’ve slain. Other tracks like the telling “Five Nails Through The Neck,” “Death Walking Terror,” “Brain Removal Device” and instrumental closer “Infinite Misery” see the five-piece at their most cogent, both lyrically and musically.

Older, wiser, and as malevolent as ever before, the time to Kill is now!

CADAVERIA NEW WEBSITE, NEW SINGLE + ALBUM PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES AND NEW ALBUM TRAILER!

You can now buy CADAVERIA new single ‘The Days Of The After And Behind‘ and preorder the long-awaited new album ‘Horror Metal‘ on iTunes.

BUY THE SINGLE HERE: http://itunes.apple.com/it/album/the-days-after-behind-single/id495518112
PRE-ORDER ‘HORROR METAL’ HERE: http://itunes.apple.com/it/preorder/horror-metal/id495522066

CADAVERIA is proud to welcome you to http://www.cadaveria.com/

The website has been completely redesigned to worthily host the upcoming new album ‘Horror Metal‘, that will be released worldwide on January 31st 2012 via Bakerteam Records (publishing by WormHoleDeath) and that can be pre-ordered from www.cadaveria.com starting from now!

The band has just posted this trailer on YT, announcing the new album release:

A new era of horror and darkness has begun!