CONQUEST ICON COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: BLACKENED DEATH METAL
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek CONQUEST
ICON (Polish Blackened Death Metal), they are another impressive band for
adepts of an old fashioned death black metal combo. Demolishing and powerful
their sound is causing already impact in local metal scene!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
Conquest Icon was found in late 2009 by Andy Blakk (ex-Pyorrhoea,
Suicide Circle) and Empherion (Empheris, Hellish).
Band, supported by Imp from Saltus, started to work on debut album
in November 2009 and in April 2010 “Hellspire” was finished. Album was
mixed and produced by Andy Blakk (drums and vocals were recorded in
KPD Studio; guitars and bass were recorded in ABH Studio).
Music on “Hellspire” is an old school blackened death metal.
Album was released by 16th of July 2010. CDs are available through band's site
http://conquesticon.org/
After releasing debut album "Hellspire", band takes no rest. In August
2010 the lineup was completed and band started to work on the material for the
split "We Are The Ancients" (split is shared with Empheris, Wraith,
Necroist and Purifier). Split is soon to be released.
In May 2012 co-founder and band's vocalist, Empherion, decided to leave
the band due to personal reasons. He was replaced by Ronve. Current
lineup is following.
Nekronos Promotion Hell team would like to wish you a smashing new Year
of 2019, we all hope that your best wishes will come true and also hope that
2019 will be a year to remember for all the best of reasons for you all, our
supporters! Metal On and Party Hard on new years eve and enjoy this new metal year!
Cheers \m/
...so the year of 2018 is ending and it's time for a ballance in the metal scene. Rui Gonçalves
(RüPä), the founder of Nekronos Promotion Hell has elected 6 albums as the
international albums of the Year
2018 and also 4 albums of the year from his homeland Portugal! Feel free to let us know which are your choices for this year, comment below
this article and have a blasting 2019 !!!
INTERNATIONAL | BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018!
BEHEMOTH (POLAND)
Album: I Loved you at your Darkest
Genre:
Death Black Metal
Label:
Nuclear Blast
DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: BLACK DEATH METAL
Pic taken by Irena Ivanova
DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS
RELEASE NEW LIVE CLIP!
[2018.11.15]
Epic black / death metallers DEVILISH
IMPRESSIONShave just released a brand new live video video to the track
"The Dove and the Serpent" taken from their latest album "The I".
Live footage shot by Cypress UA
during the band's headlining appearance at Metal Head's
Mission /
Black Sea Storm Festival 2018. Like it, share it, spread the word!!!
Vinyl track listing: 01. The I 02. The Dove and the Serpent 03. Blood Imprinted Stigma 04. Eosphoros 05. Ipse philosophvs, daemon, Devs et omnia 06. The Fatal Messiah
DIABOLICAL COUNTRY:
SWEDEN GENRE: DEATH BLACK METAL
REVEAL NEW VIDEO/SINGLE "WE ARE DIABOLICAL" AND NEW ALBUM "ECLIPSE" DETAILS! [2018.11.15]
The blackened death metallers
DIABOLICAL are premiering the first single and music video “We Are
Diabolical”, taken off their sixth studio album “Eclipse”, to be
released on February 15th via Indie Recordings.
More than twenty years after their formation in northern Sweden, innovative
death/black metal hybrid
DIABOLICAL proves to be more vital than ever and puts forth
“Eclipse”, a concept album reflecting on the dark side of humanity that
forces the listener to explore his own diabolical side. The album is a tour de
force with spitting musical and aesthetic complexity swirling around a dense
soundscape of excellently distilled and refined ideas, altogether forming a rare
display of musical craftsmanship equaled by very few contemporary metal bands.
With nine gracefully raging songs, “Eclipse” presents
DIABOLICAL as a mature and sophisticated band on the rise to new heights.
Tracklist: 1. We
Are Diabolical 2. Betrayal 3. Black Sun 4. Failure 5. Inception 6. Hunter 7. Tyranni 8. The Fire Within 9. Requiem
"We Are Diabolical" is a song that sounds just as daunting as the title
suggests. Right from the opening you get the feeling that the doomsday has come
with a swarm of fallen angels painting the sky black. A contrasting middle part
follows and prepares you for a final raging battle towards the end of the song.
Give it a spin!
“This is the opening track of the new album and it sets the tone for it:
grand, intense, ominous and dark. Thematically it puts forth what is at the core
of the concept of this album, it’s supposed to raise questions and provoke the
listener" says guitarist Carl Stjärnlöv.
The band will also hit European roads in 2019, and will give hell-of-a-show in
more than thirty cities across the Old Continent, along withSepticFlesh,
Krisiun
and supports. The tour kick-off will take place @ Turock, in Essen, DE on March
8. Check out the dates below.
08.03.2019 DE Turock Essen 09.03.2019 NL Willemeen Arnhem 10.03.2019 BE Entreport Brugge 12.03.2019 FR La Machine Paris 13.03.2019 FR Rock School Bordeaux 14.03.2019 ES Caracol Madrid 15.03.2019 PT Hardclub Oporto 16.03.2019 PT Ao Vivo Lisboa 17.03.2019 ES Garage Murcia 19.03.2019 ES Razzmatazz 2 Barcelona 20.03.2019 ES Cc Delicias Zaragoza 21.03.2019 FR Ninkaso Kao Lyon 22.03.2019 CH Pont Rouge Monthey 23.03.2019 IT Central Rock Erba 24.03.2019 IT Alchemica Bologna 26.03.2019 IT Ufo Bolzana 27.03.2019 SI Orto Bar Ljubljana 28.03.2019 SI Revolver Club San Dona 29.03.2019 HR Dom Obladine Zagreb 30.03.2019 BG Mixed Tape 5 Sofia 31.03.2019 RO Club Quantic Bucharest 02.04.2019 HU Dürer Kert Budapest 03.04.2019 SK Colloseum Kosice 04.04.2019 CZ Futurum Praha 05.04.2019 AT Szene Vienna 06.04.2019 PL U Bozyla Poznan 07.04.2019 PL Proxima Warsaw 09.04.2019 LT Vakaris Vilnius 10.04.2019 LV Meina Piektdiena Riga 11.04.2019 EE Club Tapper Tallinn
DIABOLICAL are: Sverker Widgren : Lead Vocals, Guitar
Carl Stjärnlöv: Vocals, Guitar
Dan Darforth: Vocals, Bass
Pär Johansson: Vocals, Drums
[Poster by the usual Vortex
illustrator
Misanthropic-Art]
EXTENSION TO NOTHINGNESS TOUR 2018 PT.2! [2018.11.19]
Portuguese disturbing black metal entities GAEREAhave just announced
that the first European tour for Unsettling Whispers will take place this
December. 7 dates of Lugubrious Black Art throughout some of the finest lands of
the old continent. We hope to see you all on the front row when the man steps
into the abyss and falls amongst the public.
ORDER "UNSETTLING WHISPERS":
You can now Order for Gatefold LP / Box Set / Digipak CD / T-shirt /
Digital. Follow the links: Transcending Obscurity Records -
http://tometal.com
Bandcamp -
https://gaerea.bandcamp.com
HATE : READY TO
ENTER THE STUDIO TO RECORD NEW ALBUM! [2018.11.29]
Polish Death Metal squadron
HATE is preparing to head to the studio in December to record the
follow-up to 2017’s “Tremendum.” The new opus, bearing the working title
“Salve Ignis,” is tentatively slated for summer 2019 and will be the
band’s debut collaboration with the legendary Metal Blade Records.
Details are still surfacing, but the band has so far released two raw
pre-production tracks: “Path to Arkhen” and “In The Shrine Of Veles”,
and have confirmed that production on the finished record will be handled by the
talented Wiesławski brothers at
Hertz Studio,
Poland (Behemoth, Vader, Decapitated, and others). More info shortly!
HATE have been praised by press and fans alike for years for creating
lacerating and dark music, proven best on their current album ‘Tremendum’
(2017). The album saw ATF Sinner (vocals, guitars) utilize the dark
aspects of the mystic and arcane Slavonic folklore to explore themes both
personal and impersonal. It is an album that is relatable at first listen, but
that is hard to fully know.
HATE LIVE: 01/12/18 PL – Krakow – FOAD Festival 07/12/18 LT – Vilnius – Narauti 08/12/18 LT – Kaunas – Klubas “Lemmy” 28/12/18 CZ – Ceske Budejovice – IFA Party 02/05/19 NO – Kopervik – Karmoygeddon Festival 19/07/19 SV – Nova Bana – Gothoom Open Air Fest 03/08/19 FR - Saint-maurice-de-gourdans – Sylak Open Air 15/08/19 DE - Barth - Barther Open Air Fest 18/08/19 FR - Saint Nolff - Motorcultor Fest
ZORNHEYM COUNTRY:
SWEDEN GENRE: SYMPHONIC EXTREME METAL
ZORNHEYM FINISH ANOTHER EUROPEAN TOUR! [2018.11.08]
ZORNHEYM Swedish Symphonic extreme metal horror addicts have just
finished their last European tour for the current year.
The band comments:"Inmates! We are now back home in Sweden after
another successful tour! The last show at Steinis Pub was the perfect way
of ending this run. Thanks to Décembre Noir and Strydegor for
having us - both are killer bands that you should check out!
A very special thanks to Heiko for the hospitality and being an ace guy!
That was our last show of 2018. We will return on the road again in 2019 and
until then we will be busy working on the second ZORNHEYM album!"
Stay tuned for more news!
"WHERE HATRED DWELLS AND DARKNESS REIGNS"
EUROPEAN TOUR EUROPEAN TOUR PART 2 2018 03 november - United Forces Festival XVIII, Osterode Am Harz [Germany] 04 november - Oldenburg [Germany] 06 november - Graz [Austria] 07 november - Leipzig [Germany] 08 november - Magdeburg [Germany] 09 november - Mladá Bolesla [Czech Republic] 10 november - Schwerin [Germany]
EUROPEAN TOUR EUROPEAN TOUR PART 2 2019
30 march -
MOA fest warm up [Germany] 05 april - Lübbenau [Germany] 06 april - Dresden [Germany]
SERRABULHO COUNTRY: PORTUGAL GENRE:
HAPPY DEATH / GRINDCORE
REVEAL LIVE VIDEO / SINGLE FROM THE NEW ALBUM "PORNTUGAL"!
[2018.11.27]
SERRABULHOhave revealed the first single for the new album "Porntugal - Portuguese
Vagitarian Gastronomy" that will be released on December, 15th by Rotten Roll
Rex!
The first single chosen is "Dingleberry Ice Cream", a song with lyrcs in
English and Mirandese - Portugal’s second official language, spoken mainly by
elders in the bands local region, it that tells the story of a Family Frost ice
cream salesman (hence the truck’s typical melody being played with a bagpipe)
who worked in Miranda do Douro (known as part of Portugal’s "cold lands"), who
became frustrated with his lack of success. One day he decides to “tweak“ the
ice cream’s recipe, and suddenly his sales go off the charts! Ricardo Santos [Velha Gaiteira, Gambuzinos, Trasga, Bizarma and Zaragaitas]
plays the bagpipe on the song.
SERRABULHO
"PORNTUGAL - Portuguese Vagitarian Gastronomy" tracklist: 01. She Drinks Milk 02. Ela Fez-me um Grão de Bico 03. Fecal Torpedo 04. Pito Sem Penas 05. Os Tintins do Tintin 06. BBC Wild Life 07. Cagalhão Com Ovo a Cavalo 08. Gelado de Caganetas 09. Dingleberry Ice Cream 10. Tofu au Cu 11. Tomate Pelado
"Porntugal" features a wide variety of guest appearances. Besides the
bagpipe, Ricardo Santos also plays rabel (similar to an archaic violin
and descendend from the medieval rebec), tarota (a catalan wind instrument, that
belongs to the Oboes family), adufe (a portuguese square drum), galician
tambourine and vieiras (scallop shells). Manuel Meirinhos [Galandum
Galundaina, Trasgo] contributes with additional vocals, sampling and bagpipe.
Freaky, the crazy chihuahua barks (a lot) on the song Os Tintins do
Tintin. Also, additional vocals throughout the CD were provided by Susana
Lima and Hugo Picamilho [PadariaGang].
Some field recordings captured in loco by ethnomusicologist Tiago Velhinha
Pereira & A música portuguesa a gostar dela própria [http://amusicaportuguesaagostardelapropria.org/]
were used on the disc.
SERRABULHO
also wish to note that a part of the band's twisted aesthetic actually
originates from the minds of two young ladies: Susana Catalão, our most
beloved lyricist, has penned the vast majority of the songs’ lyrics, delivering
some of funniest stories, written in an exquisite way that lets us delve
ever-deeper in our craziness. Meanwhile, Marta Peneda’s cover art has
been the band’s calling card. Every time we talk to either Susana and
Marta about some ideas we had, they return to us with even more deranged
concepts than the ones we initially brainstormed. Thank you, girls!
Finally,
SERRABULHOgratitute to Alfredo Cameirão for the Portuguese to Mirandese
translations!
SERRABULHO
are: Guerra - vocals; Paulo - guitars, vocals; Guilhermino - bass, vocals; Ivan - drums