PROCLAMATION: Interview 2012

PROCLAMATION Is one of the best black metal bands comming out of Spain, on the occasiopn of their imminent  upcoming release NETHER TOMBS OF ABADDON I done this interview with Bestial Offensor.

-Did you claim yourself as a bestial black metal act?

We are influenced by the Black Metal of bands like Bathory, Sodom, Blasphemy, Mystifier, Beherit, Impiety, Samael, Satanic Evil, Profanatica... before all the scandinavian trend in the 90’s.

We also take influences from real old Death Metal like Possessed, Hellhammer, Sarcófago, Necrovore, Holocausto, Sepultura, Pentagram, Abhorer, Obscurity...
So we play traditional Black Metal or real old school Death Metal.
What do you think of the bestial black metal scene, which are the artist that you like the most?
Most of nowadays bands that are labeled with that “Bestial Black Metal” tag are nothing but average modern Death Metal like Incantation’s second album with Black Metal posing pictures and occultist topics.
In the other side you have the gas-masked goat “War Metal” joke...
We like the old school analog productions, the obscure distortion of the tape and primitive riffs of pure evil.
Not technical and triggered drumming but bestial percussion with raw sound.
If you mean Blasphemy/Sarcófago/Beherit influenced bands when you say “Bestial Black Metal”, I recommend you Black Feast and Mockery. They are not well known but both really get that sound we are looking for. Total underground filth from the abysmal graves.

-How does it feel to work with a label like Nuclear War Now?

Best label around for us.

-Which are the main differences between Execration Of Cruel Bestiality and Nether Tombs Of Abaddon?
Not too  much. We are not going to change like Tiamat or Samael did, you know. So this new album is very similar to Execration... In other hand, since all our releases are self-produced, we always improve our sound in each album.

Who Is The main Artist behind your albums covers, and which is the meaning behind the album art?

All the layout artwork in our albums has been made for me.
The race of Azazel, the thousand scapegoats of Lilith, the Se'irim... The cadaveric skull faces reflect the fallen from grace and the birth of death. The horns and hair represent the animal instincts beyond human reason: sleeping bloodlust and hungry bestiality.

What satanism  means to you?

Like some authors in British Romanticism and French decadentism were identificated with the character of Satan in Paradise Lost, Satanism is attracted by the antagonists of the judeo-christian myths, like Lilith, Cain and his legacy, Nimrod, the Watchers from the Book of Enoch... The morals and beliefs of Satanism are closer to the religions of the ancient Egypt, Babylon, Phoenicia, Canaan, Ammon, Akkad... represented as diabolic cults in the old testament, and also closer to the Greco-Roman mysteries than the weak and false pledges of the Evangely. Satanism has risen in Occident as an answer to Christianity, and inversion of the monotheistic dogmas and mysticism.

URFAUST: to release a 7˝ split and Best Of

Urfaust are working on a new track for their upcoming split with King Dude (US), in other news The Re-release of the "Rituale..." album on vinyl / cd and the Compilation album "Ritual Music for the true Clochard" on vinyl / cd is planned to be  unleash soon via Ván Records.

NECROWRETCH Signs With CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

Century Media Records has announced the signing of France's NECROWRETCH.

Combining influences from the early works of bands such as MERCILESS, MORGOTH, GROTESQUE and tons of others unforgettable acts with their own vision, NECROWRETCH is currently one of the most promising young death metal bands.

NECROWRETCH's guitarist/vocalist Vlad comments: "We are, of course, very happy and proud to join the Century Media Records family in which we already feel really comfortable! We are convinced that this collaboration is for us a unique chance to work in the best conditions with experienced and passionate people. We are now eagerly waiting to start working on our first unholy album. Finally, I would like to thank Jens Prüter, Philipp Schulte and Jerry Maréchal for their confidence and dedication!"

Jens Prüter, head Of A&R at Century Media Europe, comments: "It already surprised the metal scene that we signed the, back then, rather unknown band SONNE ADAM from Israel. And I can just repeat myself: it's about the unique quality and we have a history signing death metal newcomers. Bands like GRAVE, MORGOTH and ASPHYX had just a couple of demos out before we signed them over 20 years ago. Let's continue with the next generation and welcome NECROWRETCH! The 'Putrefactive Infestation' 12" dominated my turntable for some months and I'm sure the upcoming album will be as sick and heavy! Bands like MASSACRA, AGRESSOR or MERCYLESS can be proud that NECROWRETCH is carrying on the torch of French death metal."

Jerry Maréchal, A&R at Century Media Europe, comments: "It has been four years now that I follow the progression of the band and all I can say is that it has been truly impressive! From the first demo to the 'Putrefactive Infestation' 12", the two main characters behind the band managed to establish NECROWRETCH as a solid newcomer in the death metal field by transcending their excellent early '90s underground influences while remaining faithful to what is genuine death metal. Hail to them!"

NECROWRETCH will start writing its first album after the release of the band's first seven-inch EP on Detest Records. This EP will be released March 10 during the band's first German live appearance at the ASPHYX new album release party at the Turock club in Essen, followed by an appearance at the Hell's Pleasure Festival on July 20-21 in Pößneck, East Germany.

MARDUK: New Album Title Unveiled

MARDUK are putting the finishing touches on their 12th studio album, "Serpent Sermon", for a late spring release.
A CD listening session for journalists and media will be held in Stockholm on February 11.

ASPHYX: 'Deathhammer' Formats Unveiled

ASPHYX will release their new studio album, "Deathhammer", on February 27 in Europe and February 28 in North America via Century Media Records. The release will be made available in the following formats:

* Limited-edition mediabook 2CD with special bonus disc
* Standard jewel case CD
* Digital download
* LP in black 180-gram vinyl (unlimited)
* LP in red 180-gram vinyl (limited to 300 copies, via Cyclone Empire)
* LP in red-and-black marbled 180-gram vinyl (limited to 200 copies, via High Roller)
* LP in clear 180-gram vinyl (limited to 250 copies, via Nuclear Blast)
* LP in grey 180-gram vinyl (limited to 200 copies, via the CM webshop)

"Deathhammer" track listing:

01. Into The Timewastes
02. Deathhammer
03. Minefield
04. Of Days When Blades Turned Blunt
05. Der Landser
06. Reign Of The Brute
07. The Flood
08. We Doom You To Death
09. Vespa Crabro
10. As The Magma Mammoth Rises

Chains - debuts first song ˝All the Colors Of The Dark˝

The anonymous drone black project Chains, debut with first song called ˝All the Colors Of The Dark˝ check the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml6B9F4O-GM

http://chainstemple.blogspot.com/

GHOST Working On 'Lavished And Divine' New Album

David E. Gehlke of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with one of the "Nameless Ghouls" from the mysterious Swedish buzz band GHOST. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Blistering.com: The whole aspect of the band being anonymous is crucial to what GHOST is about. Does it wear you out having to go to all of these lengths to conceal your identity?

The Nameless Ghoul: Yes and no. On a day-to-day basis when we are home, it can be slightly irritating at times when you have to justify what you are doing. Some of us in the band have experienced people telling us we have to quit our jobs. It's hard to justify quitting your job because you're pursuing a musical career, but nobody knows what band you're in [laughs]. So it gives you an enormous loser tag right in your forehead and you have to say that with the loser tag, and you just fight it [laughs]. That's one of the weird perks to being in this band. There's a lot of people in your immediate surrounding that you don't share a lot of information with. Being away for months at a time, obviously that's weird when people don't' know what you're doing. On the positive side, you can be released of a lot the negative aspect of being semi-famous or recognized. Some things we are missing out on, but I'm glad to not be a part of that. I prefer being my own individual and doing things with my friends. Fortunately, I'm doing this with a lot of my friends and whenever we choose to step outside of the bubble, we can easily do so. We don't need to be entertainers or members of the band; nobody expects us to jump onstage the bar. Nobody knows…we could pass as roadies and it would be perfect.

Blistering.com: Living in the age of the Internet, it's really easy to get information on just about anyone. Are you worried about information being leaked on you guys?

The Nameless Ghoul: As long as we don't state publicly who we might be, we really don't see it as a huge problem. We're not on a worldwide "above-the-radar" basis. We're still virtually unknown as a band, much different than in a Paris Hilton sort of way [laughs]. As long as we don't have that as an attraction, there's really not much [reason] in this group to unfold our true identities. Like a public statement would have to rely on us coming out, and as long as we don't do that, we can keep on… not even denying, but not even commenting on rumors or what people say.

Blistering.com: What's the status on the follow-up to [GHOST's debut album] "Opus Eponymous"?

The Nameless Ghoul: Most of the material has been written already. Throughout the production and writing, we've been using the word "divine" a lot. Whereas with the first album, the sound was slightly "wooden," we want the new album to be stone and golden in terms of being lavished and divine. So we are trying to paint an even more solemn religion and there's all sorts of dramatic steps forward. The first album is about the arrival of the anti-Christ, about a coming darkness. The new album will about a current darkness, the presence of the devil, how it relates to divinity and how it's futile you grasp whatever is divine.

Blistering.com: Considering how successful "Opus Eponymous" was, are you prepared for what should be some extremely high expectations for this album?

The Nameless Ghoul: I can't honestly say, but I think our sort of relaxed distance from what we're doing professionally might show that we're pretty well fit for survival. You never know. We are humans as well and we're trying to make a record that's supposed to be better than something a lot of people like, of course there's some pressure. You deliberately have to try to want to remember why you are doing this in the first place. With the first album, no one had any clue about us. So I think we'll manage to do it; I think the new album will hopefully as confronting and polarizing as the first one. If it's not, then it will be a waste of everyone's time if we try to do 10 more "Rituals".

Read the entire interview from Blistering.com.

1349 Announces Special Norwegian Shows

Norwegian black metallers 1349 have scheduled the following dates in their home country:


April 27 - Hulen - Bergen, Norway 
April 28 - Folken - Stavanger, Norway


Commented the band: "We had a splendid evening last time we visited Hulen; there was a fiery connection between the band and the audience, and the natural ambience inside the cavern fits 1349 perfectly. So we look forward to returning, and this time we will pull out some special songs from the hat — both old and new songs that we haven't performed live in a very long time or not at all. This is going to be a feast! Our encounter with the Stavanger audience on April 28 is going to be 1349's very first, and that's an event now in the band's 11th year of existence. Both 1349 and the metal scene of the Stavanger/Jæren-area has a strong and characteristic national identity — let's see what happens when we meet for a hellish burn-out this Saturday evening!" 

SAINT VITUS To Release 'Blessed Night' 7˝ Single

SAINT VITUS will release a seven-inch single featuring "Blessed Night", a track from "Lillie: F-65". The B-side is a live version of classic VITUS tune "Look Behind You", recorded in December 2010 at Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland.

The "Blessed Night" seven-inch single is limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies. Pre-order it at this location.

SODOM To Record New Album In May

German thrash metal veterans SODOM are currently writing material for their next studio album, which they plan to record in May. A tentative late summer release is expected, to be followed by a celebration of the band's 30th anniversary.

AURA NOIR: 'Out To Die' Track Revealed

Norway's blackened thrashers AURA NOIR will unleash their fifth studio ablum, "Out To Die", on March 23 in Europe and March 27 in North America via Indie Recordings.

Speaking to Terrorizer magazine shortly after a recent listening session in Oslo, AURA NOIR guitarist/vocalist Aggressor stated about the band's new CD, "It feels right. That's all I can say really. I'm not sitting here digging it; it's more like I'm content with having the finished product there, and now we can go play live. Because I think our music comes into its element when we're playing live. For me, a new album is like, 'Okay, we have more songs to play live now.'"

"Out To Die" marks the return of guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer). Eriksen made several trips back to Norway to work on the new AURA NOIR songs with Aggressor and Apollyon (guitar, bass, vocals, drums; also bassist in IMMORTAL).

"I wish we were all living in the same apartment and rehearsing every day, all three of us together, but obviously that's not possible because we have our private lives and everything," Aggressor told Terrorizer. "But it brought about some new ways of working, and it actually worked out okay in the end."

"Out To Die" track listing:

01. Trenches
02. Fed To The Flames
03. Abbadon
04. The Grin From The Gallows
05. Withheld
06. Priest's Hellish Fiend
07. Deathwish
08. Out To Die

MPIRE OF EVIL To unleash 'Hell To The Holy' In March

MPIRE OF EVIL (formerly PRIMEVIL) will release its full-length debut, "Hell To The Holy", on March 26 via Scarlet Records.


Produced by Mantas and featuring stunning cover artwork by Gyula Havancsák (ANNIHILATOR, DESTRUCTION, GRAVE DIGGER), "Hell To The Holy" is without any doubts a "must have" album for  all the fans of Venom. 


A North American tour with British thrash legends ONSLAUGHT has already been confirmed but many more dates will follow soon. 


Despite having played on the album, drummer Antony "Antton" Lant (ex-VENOM) has since left the band for personal reasons but a replacement for the tour will be announced soon. 


"Hell To The Holy" track listing:


01. Hellspawn
02. Metal Messiah
03. Waking Up Dead
04. Hell To The Holy
05. Snake Pit
06. All Hail
07. Devil
08. Shockwave
09. The 8th Gate
10. M-pire (Prelude)