BLACK ALTAR - Release today "Drakonian Elitism" Split!

BLACK ALTAR
COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: BLACK METAL


[Cover Art by Daniele Valeriani]

BLACK ALTAR - RELEASE TODAY "DRAKONIAN ELITISM" SPLIT!
[2023.12.22]

Black Metal legends BLACK ALTAR have released today on the Winter Solstice their split with Ofermod and Acherontas (The Drakonian Coven) “Drakonian Elitism”, released via Odium Records!

It is a very special Opus dedicated to the untold Mysteries of the Draconian Path, consisting of X new anthems of Orthodox Black Metal, lasting approximately 55 minutes. Thus, severing every tie the participants have set until forth, to form a deified monstrosity of terrors as well as an offering to the Victory of the Draconian Ways, above, beyond and astride Life and Death, a journey within theurgy and deification alike begins.

FULL SPLIT STREAM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxJSgPp-cfM



OFERMOD / ACHERONTAS / BLACK ALTAR
“Drakonian Elitism” split Tracklist:
1. Ofermod – Intro
2. Ofermod – Vinum Sabathi
3. Ofermod – Agios Ischyros Belial
4. Ofermod – Atavistic Chants of Levitation
5. Black Altar – Via Draconis
6. Black Altar – In the Labyrinths of Sithra Achra
7. Black Altar – The Oracle of Divine Madness
8. Black Altar – Outro
9. Acherontas – Intra Psyche
10. Acherontas – Astra Magia



ORDER NOW:

You can order the album and merch at: https://odiumrecords.bandcamp.com or https://odiumrex.com/webshop
Split was released in the following formats:
- De luxe Wooden Box, limited to 100 copies which contains: Die hard Red 2LP, digi pack Cd, Tape, T-shirt, incense, certificate.
- Die Hard Red 2LP - gatefold, 180gsm with graver, booklet and poster A2, limited to 100 copies.
- Black 2Lp - gatefold, 180gsm with graver, booklet and poster A2
- CD - 8 panels digi pack with 16 pages booklet
- Tape - 2 sides printed, limited to 100 copies.
- Digital
- T-shirt / Longsleeve

BLACK ALTAR studio line up:
- Shadow – vocals, bass
- Necro – guitars
- James Stewart – drums
- Lars Broddesson – clean vocals

Mixed and mastered by Dionysis Dimitrakos at Descent Studio (Athens) during the winter of 2022.



VIDEOCLIP:

Check out "Via Draconis" Videoclip at the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ESoavQ_mNg




MORE ABOUT BLACK ALTAR AT:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTPS://WWW.BLACK-ALTAR-HORDE.COM/
FACEBOOK PROFILE: http://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BLACKALTAR

BOOKING / CONTACT: SHADOW666@INTERIA.PL 

LABEL:
WWW.ODIUMREX.COM
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ODIUMREX
WWW.ODIUMRECORDS.BANDCAMP.COM
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/ODIUMREC

Band of the NeKroWEEK - GAEREA - Portugal - Black Metal

GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: BLACK METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are GAEREA (Portugal) an authentic cathartic black metal experience. This is an impressive and one of the most promising recent bands that unleashes some of the most sickening dark and sinister black metal we have heard in years! A mind-blowing band that crafts mysterious and rebellious black metal art!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!

Check out "Laude" videoclip from the latest album "Mirage": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flZP1Qk4pcE




[ Cover artwork for "Mirage" created by the SAROS Collective ]

Track-list
1. Memoir (8:17)
2. Salve (5:26) [WATCH]
3. Deluge (6:31)
4. Arson (8:54)
5. Ebb (5:32)
6. Mirage (6:38) [WATCH]
7. Mantle (5:17) [WATCH]
8. Laude (6:26) [WATCH]
9. Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total: 1:00:47

ORDER:
https://www.gaerea.com/ or
https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/GaereaMirage

Formats:
CD Digipak
CD Digibook
2x 12" Gatefold (Black)
2x 12" Gatefold (Dracula / limited to 300)
2x 12" Gatefold (White / limited to 500)
2x 12" Gatefold (Gold / limited to 700)

GAEREA BIOGRAPHY:
Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Something rises in the bleak and blackened skies of society as we know it. Vortex community GAEREA are about to bestow their Undying Sigil to the masses, with their brand-new full length ‘Limbo’!

GAEREA is a black metal quintet from Portugal. Emerging in the beginning of 2016, the band released their first (self-titled) EP on November 11, 2016 through Everlasting Spew Records. The EP received many praises from the worldwide press, and it was not long before the first full length "Unsettling Whispers" (2018) was presented.

With that, GAEREA had the pleasure to perform and tour festivals in Europe and China, including performances with Jupiterian in April 2019 and a headlining Chinese tour in May 2019. The band already performed at festivals like SWR Barroselas Metalfest (PT), De Mortem et Diabolum (DE), Throne Fest (BE), Frantic Fest (IT), Eresia Metal Fest (IT), Amplifest (PT) and many more. During the fall of 2019, the band did an extensive tour with label mates NUMENOREAN under the Doomstar Bookings wing throughout Europe.

Are you finally ready for the tale of the Fallen Society and the journey to the vast Void, the only good in Life? Let us begin then. In the first hopeless circle, on too great and Undeniable Nothingness. WE ARE GAEREA.

- - -

"MIRAGE":


Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.

Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what happened to the world in 2020. GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive. The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything. Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written over about two weeks."

Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter. Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is certain."

This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me . . . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone. Nobody is truly real until they are alone."

If existential dread could be turned into sound, GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.

Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and causticness, GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam / death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like. He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound." The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the explosive payoffs which set GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.

Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming, waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The dichotomy is magnificent to behold. GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in this record."

In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."

As GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal of activity. Does this challenge intimidate GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept of the band GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."

The beauty of GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.

WE ARE GAEREA.


DISCOGRAPHY:

2022: Mirage - Label: Season Of Mist [Out 23rd of September]
2020: Limbo - Label: Season Of Mist
2018: Unsettling Whispers - Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
2016: GAEREA [EP] - Label: Everlasting Spew Records


MORE INFORMATION ON GAEREA AT:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.COM
Facebook Page: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GAEREA/
INSTAGRAM: HTTP: https://www.instagram.com/gaerea_/
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/GAEREAOFFICIAL
BANDCAMP Site: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.BANDCAMP.COM/

Contact: AGENT.GAEREA@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: DOOMSTAR BOOKINGS [Europe & Russia]: alexander@doomstarbookings.com
PORTUGAL: carlos.marreiros@primeartists.eu

Band of the NeKroWEEK - FENRIS - Netherlands - Black Death Metal

FENRIS
COUNTRY: HOLLAND
GENRE: VIKING BLACK DEATH METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are FENRIS (Black Death Metal), the ones and only with the registered FENRIS name, a killer Dutch band with great Viking spirit, forging some scorching black metal with some death metal twist!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!

Check lyric video for "Doodenakkers" from the album "...en doodenakkers tot den horizon".
https://youtu.be/DYHdc32CnsE




MORE ABOUT THE BANDS @ LINKS:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.FENRIS.NL 
FACEBOOK PROFILE: HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/FENRISNL
BOOKING / CONTACT: INFO@FENRIS.NL

FENRIS BIOGRAPHY

Originally formed in 1997, Fenris has a 14 year history of combining thunderous viking metal with scorching black metal. At times blindingly fast, sometimes atmospheric, but always melodic and
dynamic.

With strong roots in Nordic and Germanic mythology, and some of the lyrics in their mother tongue, the mood set is that of ancient peoples, their hopes and beliefs and their wars and hardships. To date,
two albums have been released: 'Offerings to the Hunger' (2001) and 'Ordeal' (2005), the last of which was an unsigned release.

In their existence Fenris has shared the stage with Enslaved, Sear Bliss, Rotting Christ, Tyr, Einherjer, SkyForger and many others.

On the 1st of September 2016 Fenris released their new album ‘...en doodenakkers tot den horizon’, which is distributed through Snakebite/Rockinc Entertainment.

Band of the NeKroWEEK - FACEBREAKER - Sweden - Death Metal

FACEBREAKER
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
GENRE: DEATH METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are FACEBREAKER, a Zombie addicted "old-school" Death Metal band from Sweden. If you are an adept of such music and theme you gonna love them! Get ready to be infected by the dead!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!

Check the Videoclip for "Catacomb" from the latest album "Dedicated to the Flesh":
https://youtu.be/OFguCesKgYQ




MORE ABOUT THE BAND @ THIS LINKS:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.FACEBREAKER.COM
FACEBOOK PROFILE: HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/FACEBREAKER.OFFICIAL
INSTAGRAM: HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/FACEBREAKER666

CONTACT / BOOKING: FACEBREAKER666@HOTMAIL.COM 

FACEBREAKER BIOGRAPHY

Facebreaker were formed in 1999, following a conversation between Janne, Roberth, Mikael and Jonas. They had similar music tastes and decided to start a brutal and straight-forward metal band. A few rehearsal-sessions later they added lead guitarist Janos to their line-up. Facebreakers first demo "Use Your Fist" was recorded at a local studio in the beginning of the new millennium.

In March 2001 they went back to the studio to record a promo demo called "Hate and Anger". 2002 U.K. based Rage of Achilles Records got hold of their promo and offered the band a deal. A Rage of Achilles compilation album called "Conquest For The Empire" was out in April, featuring Facebreaker along with other new signings on the label. In September Janos quit the band due to lack of time. Fortunately they knew a guitar-player named Mika and a line-up change took place.

In June 2003 Facebreaker’s promo demo "Hate and Anger" was released on seven-inch vinyl. In July the band entered Black Lounge Studios to record their first full-length album "Bloodred Hell". "Boodred Hell" was released in the beginning of 2004. It achieved great reviews and feedback all around the world. Unfortunately Rage Of Achilles went out of business somewhere between late 2004 and early 2005 and "Bloodred Hell" was never given the right amount of exposure it deserved.

Without a record-deal Facebreaker made a new promo demo and started to work on new material. Facebreaker got several offers from interested labels but finally choose to work with Singapore based Pulverised Records. 2007a new record-deal was closed with Pulverised Records and in July the band went back to Jonas Kjellgrens Black Lounge Studios to record their second full-length album "Dead Rotten and Hungry". 2008 Facebreaker released "Dead Rotten and Hungry" through Pulverised Records. The album is being licensed to Cyclone Empire for a limited edit. vinyl release. Facebreaker plays Party San Open Air in Germany and is getting enthusiastic feedback.

Facebreaker did their first European tour in 2009 and an amazing show at the With Full Force-Open Air Festival in Germany in front of more than 10,000 people. In September, “Bloodred Hell” is being re-released by Cyclone Empire with additional bonus tracks. A new worldwide record deal was signed with Cyclone Empire at the end of 2009.

On the first of January 2010 they started to record their third studio album called ”INFECTED”. This time they choose to work with Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios and Peter Tägtgren at ABYSS studios.

“INFECTED” was released in October that same year. The release was followed by gigs and festivals all around Europe, and they did a massive show at the mighty Summer Breeze festival in 2011.

In 2012 they started to work on their upcoming fourth album “DEDICATED TO THE FLESH” and in January 2013 they entered Mr Plec’s The Panic Room Studios to record the drums. The rest was recorded in Slowly Rotting Studios and Crypt of Death Studios in their hometown Finspång and in Mars they went back to The Panic Room to do the mix and mastering. The result speaks for it self, a maximum assault of zombie death metal anger. Released in Europe 28.06.2013 through Cyclone Empire Records.