From the cover art to the lyrics, death metal legends Deicide didn't give an inch when it came to their uncompromising anti-church stance on their 1995 release Once Upon the Cross. In fact, the album included samples from the film The Last Temptation of Christ, which was itself accused of blasphemy. But the band was hardly standing still, as the gobsmacking guitar pyrotechnics of Eric and Brian Hoffman and furious fusillades of bassist/vocalist Glen Benton and drummer Steve Asheim became ever more awe-inspiring and, dare we say it, miraculous. For it's first widespread U.S. vinyl release, we are giving Once Upon the Cross a milky clear with blood splatter pressing remastered for the format, complete with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics.
Tracklist:
Once Upon the Cross
Christ Denied
When Satan Rules His World
Kill the Christian
Trick or Betrayed
They Are the Children of the Underworld
Behind the Light Thou Shall Rise
To Be Dead
Confessional Rape
UPC: 848064020844Label: Real Gone MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
Demon Spell returns, unleashing a vision of dark, occult heavy metal born from dust, bone, and shadow. Blessed Be the Dark, the Italians' debut album is a descent into ritual fire and ancient doom. Demon Spell deepen their devotion to a shadowed form of heavy metal rooted in the classic tradition yet veiled in occult and arcane tones, all performance with a provocative theatrical presence. UPC: 199806984055Label: Dying Victim ProductRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Theory of Change
Last Dance
Star Child
Kalorama
We All End Up Here
Brain Holographics
Smile
Isolate
UPC: 850074887362Label: Ripple MusicRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
The Devil Wears Pradaas 2013 album 8:18 once again pulled off the neat trick of topping the Pop (#6), Metal (#2), and Christian (#1) charts (the title itself is a reference to the Bible verse Romans 8:18, which says that our present-day suffering pales next to the glory that is to come). Which kinda sums up TDWPas appeal: what other band can shift so seamlessly from moments of visceral madness to spells of spiritual grace? 8:18 marked the swan song for founding band members Chris Rubey and Daniel Williams, and they certainly went out in style; the addition of some hardcore punk (aoBlack & Blue, a? aoNumber Elevena?) and straight metal (aoRumorsa?) ingredients to TDWPas melodic metalcore cauldron makes for a heady brew indeed. This sea blue pressing comes inside a gatefold with beautifully austere artwork plus an insert. A real artistic statement on every level.
Tracklist:
Gloom
Rumors
First Sight
War
8:18
Sailor's Prayer
Care More
Martyrs
Black ; Blue
Transgress
Number Eleven
Home for Grave
In Heart
UPC: 848064020929Label: Real Gone MusicRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
Limited yellow and black cloudburst colored vinyl LP pressing. An iconoclastic milestone that rumbles the earth and shakes our foundations, Songs for Satan is a fuzz-drenched blast of amplified heresy! Songs for Satan is a moment of critical mass for Warsaw, Poland's Dopelord. A blast of devil-worship in the riffing realms is nothing new, and while they aren't the first band to openly embrace the motif, their amplified heresy is uniquely triumphant, their fuzz-drenched apostasy genuine and glorious. Songs for Satan showcases the band's equal mastery of lumbering plod and silvery hooks, and mines Polish Catholicism's decades of oppression for lyrical fuel. Tracks like "Satan's Call," "The Chosen One," "One Billion Skulls" and "Worms" are pointed in their defiance of the church's cultural dominance, even while managing to be contagiously singable at the same time. Calling to mind Electric Wizard, Windhand, Beelzebong and Acid King, Songs for Satan is Dopelord's apex, an iconoclastic milestone that rumbles the earth and shakes our figurative foundations.
Tracklist:
Intro
Night of the Witch
Chosen One
One Billion Skulls
Evil Spell
Worms
Return to the Night of the Witch
UPC: 760137212607Label: Blues Funeral RecordRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
Celebrate 25 years of Drowning Pool’s iconic Platinum-certified debut album, Sinner. Originally released in 2001, Sinner launched Drowning Pool on the scene with “Bodies,” an instant classic that has remained a staple in the mosh pit. The limited edition 25th anniversary edition is pressed on sea blue smoke vinyl. Turn it up and embrace your inner Sinner.
Tracklist:
Sinner
Bodies
Tear Away
All Over Me
Reminded
Pity
Mute
I Am
Follow
Told You So
Sermon
UPC: 888072760929Label: Craft RecordingsRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Dry Kill Logic got lumped in with the "nu-metal" movement of the early 'Oughts but their 2001 debut The Darker Side of Nonsense wields a brutal sonic bludgeon of singular power. In fact, even Roadrunner, a label not known for pandering to popular taste, asked the band for a more commercial sound on it's projected follow-up, which led to Dry Kill Logic's leaving for pastures less dedicated to green. Indeed, vocalist Cliff Rigano's lyrics give no quarter: "What goes around comes around/Once lost now I am found/All of this hatred I focus on you." On the 25th anniversary of it's original release, we've remastered The Darker Side of Nonsense for it's vinyl debut, and faithfully re-created the beautifully grotesque artwork with a jacket and color inner sleeve. Reissued with the full support of the band on milky clear vinyl!
Tracklist:
Nightmare
Feel the Break
Pain
Nothing
Assfault
Weight
A Better Man Than Me
Rot
Track 13
Give Up, Give in, Lie Down
The Strength I Call My Own
Goodnight
(Silence)
Sab
UPC: 848064021285Label: Real Gone MusicRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Ranging, krautrock-style progressive psych jams that expand dramatically beyond the band's stoner doom roots. Capturing Elder's expanding dynamic and ongoing progression, The Gold & Silver Sessions is a trance-inducing LP of ranging, tripped out psychedelic jams that captures their expressive and nuanced development. They're still the band who put out the crushing "Reflections of a Floating World," but letting their imagination venture in bold new directions.
Tracklist:
Illusory Motion
Im Morgengrauen
Weißensee
Sales Points
UPC: 760137209577Label: Blues Funeral RecordRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
Double vinyl LP pressing. Two decades into their existence, Elder remain an anomaly in the heavy underground - a band with the ability to absorb and shed influences from a myriad of genres without falling into pastiche or losing their identity. New album Through Zero is a reaffirmation of their commitment to pushing boundaries and cements their status as leaders in heavy psychedelic rock. Elder has long since mastered crushing riffs, melodic jaunts, progressive patterns, hypnotic grooves and ethereal atmospherics. Recorded in Berlin between tours in 2025, Through Zero is possibly their most immediate and engaging record to date, allowing seeds from outside the sphere of rock music to take root and bloom within their progressive framework. Listeners will find new textures, sequences and sounds woven into Elder's endlessly bombastic take on heavy rock. Elder was formed in a small coastal town in Massachusetts around 2006 by three longtime friends with a passion for downtuned heavy music. Over the years, the band has gained a guitarist, lost a drummer, relocated (mostly) from the United States to Germany, played hundreds of shows from small clubs to arenas across the world and released six full-length albums, four EPs and two live records. "Through Zero" is a term borrowed from music engineering, which describes the property of a frequency being able to pass through the zero point and continue into the negative. While not a concept rooted in philosophy, it resonates on an existential level: the zero point is not an end, but a midpoint along a mostly unseeable path where the journey is the destination and reality is less linear than most of us understand.
Tracklist:
Sigil to Ruin
Capture/Release
Through Zero
Strata
Sight Unseen
Blighted Age
UPC: 760137209560Label: Blues Funeral RecordRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: Vinyl
Elder Through Zero ETCHED VINYL Elder have long been masters of crushing riffs, melodic jaunts, progressive patterns and hypnotic grooves. Two decades into their existence, they remain an anomaly in the heavy underground - a band with the ability to absorb and shed influences from a myriad of genres without falling into pastiche or losing their identity. New album Through Zero is a reaffirmation of Elder's commitment to pushing boundaries and cements their status as leaders in heavy psychedelic rock. It's the band's most immediate record to date, allowing seeds from outside the sphere of straight-ahead rock to bloom within their experimental framework. Listeners will find new textures, sequences and sounds woven into Elder's bombastic and forward-gazing approach to modern heaviness!
Tracklist:
Sigil to Ruin
Capture/Release
Through Zero
Strata
Sight Unseen
Blighted Age
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 760137210412Label: Blues Funeral RecordRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: Vinyl
Formed in 1993, Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics focusing on the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft, horror films, and cannabis. Black Magic Rituals & Perversions Vol.1, a one-take dungeon session, features some of their most classic moments, captured live, raw and uncensored. This is a career-defining collection, and a must-have for followers of this iconic British metal band.
Tracklist:
Dopethrone
Incense for the Damned
Black Mass
Witchcult Today
Satanic Rites of Drugula
Scorpio Curse
Chosen Few
Funeralopolis
UPC: 5401148002010Label: SpinefarmRelease Date: 5.30.25Format: Vinyl
Skull smashing drugged Doom from beyond the grave - a true masterpiece! Limited to 2000 copies on Cherry Red Double Vinyl
Tracklist:
Return Trip 1
Wizard in Black
Doom Mantia
Ivixor B/Phase Inducer
Son of Nothing
Solarian 13 8.00
UPC: 803341641884Label: Rise Above LimitedRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
Even though the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was already history by the time Elixir released The Son Of Odin in 1986, the album is still considered one of the best albums of the movement. Elixir started out in London in 1983. In 1985, they released their debut single "Treachery (Ride Like The Wind)," which was endorsed in Kerrang! By none other than Ronnie James Dio in a guest column, spurring the band to tackle their first album. The result was The Son Of Odin. Rave reviews followed almost everywhere, not least in Metal Forces, where Dave Constable stated: "A self-financed LP that eclipses many a major label release." The 40th Anniversary Edition of this immortal classic includes, in addition to the regular album, the complete session from which the "Treachery (Ride Like The Wind)" single was taken, as well as the previous demo and the BBC Friday Rock Show session. In addition, recent interviews with guitarist Phil Denton and manager Seymour Mincer tell the story of the album.
Tracklist:
The Star Of Beshaan
Pandora's Box
Hold High The Flame
Children Of Tomorrow
Trial By Fire
Starflight
Dead Man's Gold
Treachery
The Son Of Odin
The Star Of Beshaan
Pandora's Box
Hold High The Flame
The Son Of Odin
Winds Of Time
Treachery
Playing With Fire
Dead Man's Gold
Born Loser
Deal With The Devil
Chariot Of The Gods
UPC: 4251267723751Label: High Roller RecordsRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
A masterpiece of monumental and bombastic Dark Romantic Metal With "Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields" (1997), Schwadorf perfected his dark Metal full of classical Romanticism and traditional folklore. The album relates back to the band's debut "A Wintersunset...", but also delivers the blue-print for their later development into more tranquil folk sceneries.
Tracklist:
When Shadows Grow Longer
The Blue Mists of Night
Mourners
Ode to Melancholy
Lover's Grief
The Ensemble of Silence
UPC: 884388890503Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 8.1.25Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Nowhere
Autumn Embrace
Oblivion Cave
Woods of Lost Souls
Miss You
Sweet Autumn of Decadence
Forest Breath
UPC: 301660566623Label: Avantgarde MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
Eric Martin Band - Looks Can Be Deceiving / Due to an unrelated dispute between band manager Herbie Herbert and the newly appointed CEO of Elektra Records many years prior, Eric Martin Band were dropped from their contract, and the newly recorded album was shelved. Y&T quickly recruited guitarist John Nymann, City Kidd (later known as Tesla) nabbed drummer Troy Luccketta, Gregg Rolie would bring in guitarist Mark Ross for his self-titled album. Eric Martin would release two solo albums and then go on to help form the supergroup Mr. Big. The band UFO had grabbed keyboardist Dave Jacobsen a few months prior. The Looks Can Be Deceiving album would sit for more than 40 years, until Metallic Blue Records would come along and sign Eric Martin and company to a six-album deal.
Tracklist:
Pictures
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Read My Lips
Action ; Adventure
Love Is on the Line
Outside Looking in
Mental Breakdown
On Your Side
Brand New Face
UPC: 655825700323Label: Metallic Blue RecsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
“Cure” is the first single and title track from Alabama based metalcore giants ERRA’ new album ‘CURE’ out April 5th, 2024. This release marks the first new album from the band since their critically acclaimed S/T album ‘ERRA’ released in March of 2021 (+42mil streams | 7000 LPs | 4000 CDs) and will be used to launch digital and physical pre-orders worldwide. When speaking about the track’s infectious nature singer Jesse Cash states, "Cure was one of the last songs we wrote for the record. I had this groove riff that I was just so obsessed with, to the point that I wanted to stay with it for the full duration of the song”.
Tracklist:
Cure
Rumor of Light
Idle Wild
Blue Reverie
Slow Sour Bleed
Wish
Glimpse
Past Life Persona
Crawl Backwards Out of Heaven
End to Excess
Pale Iris
Wave
UPC: 843563172506Label: UnfdRelease Date: 4.5.24Format: Vinyl
Metalcore giants Erra return with their 7th studio album 'silence outlives the earth' out March 6, 2026.
Tracklist:
stelliform
further eden
gore of being
black cloud
cicada siren
echo sonata
lucid threshold
spiral (of liminal infinity)
i. the many names of god
ii. in the gut of the wolf
iii. twilight in the reflection of dreams
UPC: 8721416586262Label: UnfdRelease Date: 3.20.26Format: Vinyl
Influenced by Thrash Metal Royalties Slayer, Kreator, Destruction, Dissection, and Exodus ' earlier works, Eternal Evil was formed in Stockholm - Sweden in 2019. The band has intended to carry on the legacy of early High energy early Classic Thrash insanity.Their quickly sold out 'Rise of Death' self released demo recorded in band leader Adrian Tobar's garage and It was later reissued by Iron Fist and Redefining Darkness records.Shortly after the demo release, the world was hit by a pandemic and during those restrictive years, the band worked on in silence and brought in Norrland guitarist Tobias Lindström. Recorded at Studio Humbucker by Robert Pehrsson, the band's full length debut 'The Warriors Awakening... Brings The Unholy Slaughter' got released in November 2021.Now with two new members, the band is ready with it's follow-up album "The Gates beyond Mortality". With lyrical themes from Occult Practice to the violent nature of warfare the band has crafted an album that has broken all the rules and standards from previous times, which makes this album sound darker than anything they have released prior. Having kickstarted with an indestructible enthusiasm conjuring malicious Old School Metal powers, Eternal Evil are destined to make that head bang forever !. For fans of: Destruction, Kreator, Dissection, Sodom, Death Angel
Tracklist:
Prelude
The Darkened Sphere
A Soul To Cope
Forever Feared
Eyes Of Wrath
Triumph Through Pain
Stain Of Roses
The Mountain's Gaze
I Know, The Fire Burns Inside
UPC: 3760053848895Label: Listenable RecordsRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: Vinyl
Love, Drugs Misery is the long awaited Album from Eva Under Fire. The group poured their heart into this project. This album has a message of inclusivity and self love. With songs like "Coming for Blood" Feat Mat From Ashes To New. It also features the radio hit "Blow Feat Spencer Charnas Of Ice Nine Kills which is featured on the Horror Film The Retaliators Sound Track. With their motto being "Be the fan that fuels that fire" Everyone will definitely fall in love with Eva Under Fire powerful vocals.
Tracklist:
Blow (Feat. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills)
Unstoppable
With or Without You
Another Shot Through the Heart
Misery
The Strong
Death of Me
Heroin?
Ghost
Coming for Blood (Feat. from Ashes to New)
Comatose (Feat. Jonathan Dorr of Ego Kill Talent)
Give Me a Reason
UPC: 849320028819Label: Better Noise MusicRelease Date: 12.8.23Format: Vinyl
EVERGREY, masterminds of melancholia, offer another outburst of beautiful darkness and turn their inner fire into something unstoppable: the intense 15th album, Architects Of A New Weave, will be released June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records. With it, the progressive band relentlessly shapes its vigorous legacy, presenting heartfelt hymns and thoughtful lyricism intertwined with heavy riffs, carried by Tom S. Englund’s powerful voice. 30+ years into their career, EVERGREY prove that no one suffers as touchingly as they do, hurting and healing within the same arrangements. A cinematic hybrid of the darkest corners of the mind and highest hopes of the soul, the band leave a trail of goosebumps as they rewrite their story. EVERGREY are no longer victims of the night, but creators of new skies.
Tracklist:
A Welcome To The Pattern
A The Shadow Self
A Architects Of The New Weave
A The World Is On Fire
A Heaven
A The Script
A Leaving The Emptiness
B Longing
B A Burning Flame
B Call Off Your Lions
B Chains Of Shame
B The Prophecy
UPC: 810185197682Label: NapalmRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: Vinyl
Vinyl LP pressing. The third record for the Swedish masters of power metal, "Mournbraid" delivers the trademark Evermore sound made of aggressive guitar riffs, soaring epic vocals and unforgettable strong hooks - all amplified by a massive neat production. Master of ardour and melody perfectly blended together, the Scandinavian trio further refined it's pretty unique songwriting and lyrical touch. Each song of the album tells a different story from the perspective of individuals experiencing the diversity of existence's challenges and feelings of personal struggles. As always in Evermore's music, the end goal is to make the listener relate to the music on a very deep personal level.
Tracklist:
Void
Underdark
Nightstar Odyssey
Titans
Oath of Apathy
Illusionist (Raise the Curtain)
Armored Will
Ravens at the Gates
Old Man's Tale
Mournbraid
UPC: 8025044048117Label: Scarlet RecordsRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: Vinyl
In 1990, Pittsburgh's Eviction unleashed The World Is Hours Away - a volatile mix of thrash power and punk rebellion that instantly earned cult status among crossover metal fans. Fueled by blue-collar grit and raw conviction, the album captured a scene that valued energy over Polish and truth over trends. Brutal Planet Records now brings this underground classic back to life with a striking Nuclear Green Vinyl pressing, complete with a full-color 12? x 12? lyric and collage insert that celebrates Eviction's history and the Pittsburgh scene that forged them. It's a sonic time capsule of American thrash at it's most honest - loud, fast, and full of heart. From the relentless drive of "Listen" and "Drunken State" to the defiant anthem "American Way," every track oozes authenticity and attitude. For fans who live at the intersection of punk ferocity and metal precision - where Suicidal Tendencies, D.R.I., and C.O.C. collide - this is the definitive way to experience The World Is Hours Away.
Tracklist:
"Our World
Listen
Drunken State
Marching Off To War
Living In Emptiness
You Decide
Struggle With Society
Behind The Mask
Open Your Eyes
American Way
"
UPC: 732131698473Label: Brutal PlanetRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
March 27 2026 will see the re-release by the American Thrash Metal act of their cult album 'Annihilation Of Civilization' including a number of bonus tracks. The original recordings date back to 1989 and have been remastered by Bill Metoyer (Slayer, Armored Saint).
Tracklist:
F.C.I./ The Awakening
Annihilation Of Civilization
Living Good
Future Shock
Run Again
Holy Trials
Gone Shooting
Parricide
Unauthorized Exploitation
B.O.H.I.C.A.
Sloe-Death
UPC: 886922445019Label: SteamhammerRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: Vinyl
March 27th 2026 will see the re-release by the American thrash metal act of their cult album 'The Underworld' including a number of bonus tracks. The original recordings date back to 1991 and have been remastered by Bill Metoyer (Slayer, Armored Saint).
Tracklist:
Intro (Comshell 5)
Global Warming
Branded
Welcome To Kuwait
Critic / Cynic
The 'Hood
The Underworld
He's A Woman / She's A Man
Process Elimination
Labyrinth Of The Mind
Reap What You Sow
UPC: 886922445118Label: SteamhammerRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: Vinyl
Vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus track and OBI strip. Chapter 10 of Beneath The Desert Floor couldn't be better as Fireball Ministry sway the airways! Fireball Ministry returns to Ripple Music's series 'Beneath The Desert Floor' with their brilliant album 'The Second Great Awakening'. Don't miss out because this is as good as it gets!
Tracklist:
Second Great Awakening
King
Sinner
Master of None
Daughter of the Damned
Flatline
In the Mourning
He Who Kills
Rollin' On
Choker
Maidens of Venus
Dark Descend
UPC: 850074887409Label: Ripple MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
A Forest of Stars are the physical manifestation of what can confidentially be called 'British Black Metal'. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface", the grandiose sixth full-length by the band from West Yorkshire is the sonic expression of this distinct and discernible local variant of the genre. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" sends it's tendril-like roots deep into British musical soil. In his recitative mode, vocalist Curse is even reminiscent of electro poet Anne Clark - after a steady diet of prescription drugs and rusty nails. Another sonic pillar on which "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" stands, is the violin of Katheryne aka Queen of the Ghosts. Her melodies time and time again build beautiful bridges over the dissonant churning of electric guitars as the latter gloriously luxuriate in the chaos they create. On the harsh side of their unique sound, A Forest of Stars make use of the full spectrum that both classic heavy and black metal have to offer - with deadly and progressive moments meticulously slotted into all the right places. Connoisseurs of the black arts will not fail to notice that the collective from Leeds beg to differ from traditional Norse berserkir in the wake of MAYHEM, as well as contemporary compatriots such as WINTERFYLLETH. A Forest of Stars have used their temporary hiatus well to craft a collection of excellent songs. In their quest for perfection, they even discarded an entire finished album and started again from scratch. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" is undoubtedly pure A Forest of Stars: complex, catchy, contradictory - and completely individualistic. Welcome to British Black Metal!
Tracklist:
LP1 Ascension of the Clowns
Street Level Vertigo
Mechanically Separated Logic
Roots Circle Usurpers
LP2 Sway, Draped in Vague
Not Drinking Water
UPC: 884388894327Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
A Forest of Stars are the physical manifestation of what can confidentially be called 'British Black Metal'. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface", the grandiose sixth full-length by the band from West Yorkshire is the sonic expression of this distinct and discernible local variant of the genre. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" sends it's tendril-like roots deep into British musical soil. In his recitative mode, vocalist Curse is even reminiscent of electro poet Anne Clark - after a steady diet of prescription drugs and rusty nails. Another sonic pillar on which "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" stands, is the violin of Katheryne aka Queen of the Ghosts. Her melodies time and time again build beautiful bridges over the dissonant churning of electric guitars as the latter gloriously luxuriate in the chaos they create. On the harsh side of their unique sound, A Forest of Stars make use of the full spectrum that both classic heavy and black metal have to offer - with deadly and progressive moments meticulously slotted into all the right places. Connoisseurs of the black arts will not fail to notice that the collective from Leeds beg to differ from traditional Norse berserkir in the wake of MAYHEM, as well as contemporary compatriots such as WINTERFYLLETH. A Forest of Stars have used their temporary hiatus well to craft a collection of excellent songs. In their quest for perfection, they even discarded an entire finished album and started again from scratch. "Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface" is undoubtedly pure A Forest of Stars: complex, catchy, contradictory - and completely individualistic. Welcome to British Black Metal!
Tracklist:
LP1 Ascension of the Clowns
Street Level Vertigo
Mechanically Separated Logic
Roots Circle Usurpers
LP2 Sway, Draped in Vague
Not Drinking Water
UPC: 884388895522Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
Game over have signed a deal with Scarlet Records for the release of their new album 'Burst Into The Quiet', following the critically acclaimed debut 'For Humanity'. Inspired by the classic Bay Area thrash metal scene, Game Over mix those influences with modern sounds and a very distinctive personality, which the new album displays in full force. These 9 brand-new tracks are made of sharp riffs, groovy rhythms and super-fast guitar solos, with lyrics ranging from the horror imaginary of the Eighties b-movies to social commentary and introspective thoughts. 'Burst Into The Quiet' has been produced, mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni (DGM) at Domination Studios and features a beautiful cover by Mario Lopez.
Tracklist:
Masters of Control
Seven Doors to Hell
The Eyes (Of the Mad Gardener)
C.H.U.C.K
No More
Metropolis Pt.3
Trapped Inside Your Mind
Nuke 'Em High
Burst Into the Quiet
UPC: 8025044026115Label: Scarlet RecordsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
With their fourth full-length album Signal Fire, GENGHIS TRON awaken us from the post-apocalyptic daydreams of their previous work with a violent—and most welcome—shove. This time, the distant-future reveries we first heard on Board Up The House give way to an unsettling awareness of the present we’re actually living, as our circumstances grow too pressing to try and escape.
“Signal Fire envisions a Kojima-esque dystopia of endless proxy warfare,” says vocalist and lyricist Tony Wolski (The Armed), “where the deluge of available information has outmoded the human ability to parse it. A world where those amoral, shameless and cunning enough can literally reshape reality at their whim through sheer insistence."
Having roared onto the scene in 2004 with a uniquely demented blend of extreme metal, synthesizer textures, and drum-machine madness, GENGHIS TRON are no strangers to making a forceful impression. But Signal Fire marks the first time bandleaders Michael Sochynsky and Hamilton Jordan –joined again by Wolski and Nick Yacyshyn (SUMAC) on drums, plus newcomer Kenny Szymanski (The Armed) on bass–has captured this level of urgency with such visceral precision. “This album is very much rooted in the now,” confirms Jordan.
Album opener “I Am All” sets the table with a chest-throbbing synth pulse as Wolski declares “I’m on a tear, I’m on a tear,” over swirling industrial rhythms and creeping synthlines. “Nothing Blooms in the Hollow” grafts desert-rock swagger onto interlocking layers of dizzying riffs and chants before Wolski steers the band into full-on sonic burnout, like a spaceship careening into the sun. “Born Prey” navigates deftly through Genghis Tron’s classic sonic touchpoints: furious blastbeats, electronic breaks, haunting vocal earworms, and a towering synth-pop crescendo. Meditative interludes like “Like Fotocrom” and “Without Form” deliver shimmering, ominous beauty. And “New Gods” invokes Rabies-era Skinny Puppy to bring the album to a bludgeoning, anthemic finale, as Wolski screams on repeat: “New gods to bleed me out / No new peace / Bleed me out / I love it.”
Twenty years into their career, having proven their ability to forge common ground between Ministry and Aphex Twin, between Brutal Truth and Boards Of Canada, between Cluster and Converge, ugly-beautiful new genre hybrids from GENGHIS TRON no longer come as a surprise. What’s remarkable, however, is how Sochynsky and Jordan have taken a project that started in 2004 as a dorm-room genre-pastiche experiment —”a chaotic, wild amalgamation of all our favorite stuff, literally slammed together,” says Jordan—and refined their songwriting craft to deliver a sound that is unmistakably their own.
Tracklist:
1 I Am All
2 Signal Fire
3 Future Worship
4 Like Fotochrom
5 Tomorrow Mirage
6 Nothing Blooms in the Hollow
7 Without Form
8 Born Prey
9 A Love So Pure
10 New Gods
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 781676563111Label: RelapseRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
With their fourth full-length album Signal Fire, GENGHIS TRON awaken us from the post-apocalyptic daydreams of their previous work with a violent—and most welcome—shove. This time, the distant-future reveries we first heard on Board Up The House give way to an unsettling awareness of the present we’re actually living, as our circumstances grow too pressing to try and escape.
“Signal Fire envisions a Kojima-esque dystopia of endless proxy warfare,” says vocalist and lyricist Tony Wolski (The Armed), “where the deluge of available information has outmoded the human ability to parse it. A world where those amoral, shameless and cunning enough can literally reshape reality at their whim through sheer insistence."
Having roared onto the scene in 2004 with a uniquely demented blend of extreme metal, synthesizer textures, and drum-machine madness, GENGHIS TRON are no strangers to making a forceful impression. But Signal Fire marks the first time bandleaders Michael Sochynsky and Hamilton Jordan –joined again by Wolski and Nick Yacyshyn (SUMAC) on drums, plus newcomer Kenny Szymanski (The Armed) on bass–has captured this level of urgency with such visceral precision. “This album is very much rooted in the now,” confirms Jordan.
Album opener “I Am All” sets the table with a chest-throbbing synth pulse as Wolski declares “I’m on a tear, I’m on a tear,” over swirling industrial rhythms and creeping synthlines. “Nothing Blooms in the Hollow” grafts desert-rock swagger onto interlocking layers of dizzying riffs and chants before Wolski steers the band into full-on sonic burnout, like a spaceship careening into the sun. “Born Prey” navigates deftly through Genghis Tron’s classic sonic touchpoints: furious blastbeats, electronic breaks, haunting vocal earworms, and a towering synth-pop crescendo. Meditative interludes like “Like Fotocrom” and “Without Form” deliver shimmering, ominous beauty. And “New Gods” invokes Rabies-era Skinny Puppy to bring the album to a bludgeoning, anthemic finale, as Wolski screams on repeat: “New gods to bleed me out / No new peace / Bleed me out / I love it.”
Twenty years into their career, having proven their ability to forge common ground between Ministry and Aphex Twin, between Brutal Truth and Boards Of Canada, between Cluster and Converge, ugly-beautiful new genre hybrids from GENGHIS TRON no longer come as a surprise. What’s remarkable, however, is how Sochynsky and Jordan have taken a project that started in 2004 as a dorm-room genre-pastiche experiment —”a chaotic, wild amalgamation of all our favorite stuff, literally slammed together,” says Jordan—and refined their songwriting craft to deliver a sound that is unmistakably their own.
Tracklist:
1 I Am All
2 Signal Fire
3 Future Worship
4 Like Fotochrom
5 Tomorrow Mirage
6 Nothing Blooms in the Hollow
7 Without Form
8 Born Prey
9 A Love So Pure
10 New Gods
UPC: 781676763917Label: RelapseRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release by the Swedish Heavy Metal band (formerly known as Ghost but became Ghost B.C. in the U.S. because of legal issues). Ghost B.C. have been building a cult-like fan base since the release of their 2010 debut album, Opus Eponymous. The band comprises various nameless ghouls and spiritual leader Papa Emeritus II, performing conceptualized Satanic church music mixed as a unique and soulfully evil mass.
Tracklist:
Infestissumam
Per Aspera Ad Inferi
Secular Haze [Album Version] [Version]
Jigolo Har Megiddo
Ghuleh/Zombie Queen
Year Zero
Body and Blood
Idolatrine
Depth of Satan's Eyes
Monstrance Clock
UPC: 602537343737Label: Republic RecordsRelease Date: 4.16.13Format: Vinyl