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MOLOCH : ILLUSIONEN EINES VERLORENEN LEBENS Glorious North Productions Over the years, Ukrainian black/ambient project Moloch has adopted a rather relentless mode of dragging the listener down into mastermind Pr. Sergiy’s personal, depressive hell, creating a band biographer’s nightmare morass of a discography, with a preference for obscure splits and simultaneous releases. It’s messy, and [...]

Australian Blackened Metallers MEMORIA have today released their third full-length album entitled “Death Calls The Islands”, which the band describes as a “a guitar-driven album that is simultaneously beautiful and ugly”, via Daniel Vrangsinn’s Misantrof ANTIRecords. The album will be available both in physical format as a CD, and, in keeping with Misantrof’s philosophy, as [...]

Stavanger’s “gloomy rock’n’rollers” BEYOND THE MORNINGLIGHT have today released a single from their forthcoming sophomore album, “Liberation”. “Open Your Eyes” is a psychedelically- tinged rock track, with a melancholy atmosphere, combined with deep-thinking, existential lyrical content. To go with the single, and to commemorate their fifth year together, the band has also created its first video, [...]

Hail minions, Just a quick HELLO from me, to draw your attention to some further ways in which you can interact with us and find out what’s new on the Hierophant home page. I had some requests to set up a mailing list to let people know on a weekly basis what was new on [...]

Norwegian Black Metal act TSJUDER recently reunited after a five-year hiatus. The infernal trio’s forthcoming album is entitled “Legion Helvete” and has been scheduled for an October 14th release (October 18th in the US). Here are the cover artwork and tracklist of this new opus: The Daemon Throne Fra en Råtten Kiste Dauðir Voldsherskeren Slakt [...]

Cape Fear doom kings, SOURVEIN, are excited to announce the return of original bassist, Joshua ”JC Fari” Crapo, who played with the band from 1993 – 2001 and again from 2003 – 2006. Fari held down the low-end duties on both SOURVEIN’s self-titled full-length and the “He’s No Good To Me Dead” compilation (featuring SOURVEIN [...]

I like a good mystery, and that’s precisely what 66crusher, extreme metallers from Bergen, would appear to have been providing the metal scene lately. Whether folk have gone for ‘death’ or ‘thrash’ – or hedged their bets with the ever-useful term, ‘progressive’ – the unanimous verdict is that the musicianship and song-writing on sophomore album [...]

KADAVER : AUTOMATIC AUTOPSY Topheth Prophet I first met Kadaver in the shape of “Molested Into Form”, which was released in 2009 via the much-missed FracturedSpaces Records. At the time I wrote that Michael Zolotov had created the filthiest, most apocalyptic slice of harsh electronic noise that I’d ever encountered, and which surely heralded the [...]

Mainstream media outlet National Public Radio is hosting the public’s first listen to “Woodland Cathedral”, the fifth track from Cascadian black metal act WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s upcoming LP, “Celestial Lineage”. The majestic “Woodland Cathedral” is surely one of the most melodic and serene arrangements within WITTR’s latest triad of albums, –  a trio [...]

Norwegian death/thrash ensemble HELLISH OUTCAST are pleased to announce that they have signed to UK label Transcend Music. “I must say it’s an honour to finally be able to spread our wings with this beast!” says Mads Lilletvedt of the signing. As a result, their new album “Your God Will Bleed” will be released later [...]