Death Metal supergroup Vltimas, featuring Rune “Blasphemer” Eriksen (ex-Mayhem, Aura Noir), David Vincent (ex-Morbid Angel) and Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy), released their excellent new album, Something Wicked Marches In, last month via Season of Mist. The band has booked festival dates like Copenhell, Tons of Rock and Wacken and an EXCLUSIVE concert in London on 21st of June at Underworld! Ghost Cult is giving away tickets for you and a friend, plus a digipak CD version of the album. To enter just share our Facebook post for the contest and tag a friend! Winners will be chosen at random so enter today! Continue reading
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Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In
The term Supergroup is often used to describe any band consisting of musicians from other acts and thus disappointing when it ends up lacking household names, or consisting of dream groupings who do not live up to the expectation their legacy suggests.
Fortunately, new entity Vltimas have offered a debut that smashes those notions.
Made up of former Mayhem man Blasphemer, Cryptopsy’s Flo Mounier and David Vincent (formerly of Morbid Angel), Vltimas is a solid who’s who of Extreme Metal royalty. Notably, this is Vincent’s first Metal outing since the polarising Illud Divinum Insanus (Season of Mist), thus potentially leaving him with a point to prove. Fortunately, it doesn’t take long for Something Wicked Marches In (Season of Mist) to ease any lingering doubts there.Continue reading
Misery Index – Rituals Of Power
I think as Extreme Metal fans we can all agree that we were getting a little antsy awaiting new music from Baltimore’s loudest sons, Misery Index. Watching the news every day through my fingers I know that the world and a certain leader are shit, so I figured Misery Index are in no shortage of material to convert into awesome grind sounds. But wait no more, children; Rituals Of Power (Season of Mist) is finally here.Continue reading
October 26th 2018 New Music Releases
Cryptopsy Stream New Teaser, Brutal New EP Coming Tomorrow
Canadian tech-death wizard Cryptopsy have spent 26 years forging a singular path to tech death greatness. They just dropped a teaser for their new EP The Book Of Suffering – Tome II. The full EP drops this Friday. Check out the teaser right now! Continue reading
Cryptopsy Shares New Lyric Video For “Fear His Displeasure”
Cryptopsy is bearing down on the October 26th release of their new EP, The Book of Suffering – Tome II. Watch the lyric video for the brutal track ‘ Fear His Displeasure’ right now! Continue reading
Abysmal Torment – The Misanthrope
In case you were caught unawares, the “tech” in the tech death sub-genre of metal means technical. It’s an important distinction to make since death metal can be many things, not all of it deserves the lofty label. The earliest purveyors of the style might have been extreme, and well accomplished at playing their instruments, but not living up to the name. Later bands definitely upped the ante on what could be accomplished and now we are talking about an umbrella of bands that could mean Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Death, Beyond Creation, Gorguts, Neuraxis, Obscura, Cryptopsy, and many more. Hailing from the small island nation of Malta, comes Abysmal Torment, who want you to know in no uncertain terms they can carry the weight. Their new album The Misanthrope (Willowtip) is a brutal exploration of the style in every track.Continue reading
Cryptopsy Announce New EP, Second In A Trilogy
Cryptopsy has been on a roll with both a killer full length and a new EP in the last few years. Now they have announced the second chapter of their promised trilogy, dubbed The Book Of Suffering – Tome II, releasing on October 26th. The band is dropping a new single, video, and pre-orders with a grat track next week, so be on the lookout for that. Cryptopsy is hitting the road with Aborted in Europe, Canadian tour dates, and next spring’s Netherlands Deathfest. All dates on sale below. Continue reading
Belphegor, Cryptopsy & Hate North American Tour Dates Announced
Belphegor unleashed their latest album, Totenritual, last month via Nuclear Blast, and now they’ve announced their first tour dates in support of the brutal new record. Continue reading
Maryland Deathfest 2017 Part II, Baltimore, Maryland
Hitting the halfway point of Maryland Deathfest is usually a milestone that no one really notices and those who do will actually not speak of it. No one wants to think the weekend is going to end nor that the end is already halfway here. Instead, hangovers are nursed, more questionable food is consumed, and everyone marches back to Rams Head Live and Baltimore Soundstage for another day of partying. Fortunately for myself and my party of friends, we know how to party but dodge the hangovers. So, we made sure to be on time for Soundstage opening up with the first band playing slightly before four in the afternoon. That included polishing off a bottle of vodka left behind by the previous renters of the Air BnB. Thank you to those unnamed heroes! Continue reading