Three years on from their acclaimed debut album, Ash In Realms of Stone Icons, Atlanta, GA progressive blackened metal band TÓMARÚM return with Beyond Obsidian Euphoria on April 4 via Prosthetic Records. Following extensive North American touring since 2022, TÓMARÚM™s sophomore full-length in the next chapter in the group™s ever-evolving search for inner meaning, strength and peace. Where Ash in Realms of Stone Icons served as a prologue in the band™s continuing narrative thread, Beyond Obsidian Euphoria marks the beginning proper of TÓMARÚM™s story.
Virginia Beach, VA epic death metal duo FORETOKEN have returned and are poised to leave a grandiose mark on 2023 with their sophomore full-length, Triumphs, set for release via Prosthetic Records on March 17. Following their 2020 debut long player, Ruin, FORETOKEN™s latest album sees the group expand upon their foundations of meticulously lofty soundscapes, mythological narratives, and elaborate musicianship. Utilizing traditional narratives of myths, legends, and folklore from a wide range of Western and Middle Eastern origins, Triumphs examines the ignored collateral damage of the cost of victory through these established mythos. Taking musical inspiration from melodic and tech death metal, as well as power, folk and black metal, Foretoken™s core sound on Triumphs is bolstered by subtle and captivating use of traditionally Scandinavian, Southeast Asian, and Middle Eastern instruments for atmospheric depth within the album™s 51 minute runtime. Reunited once again with Hannes Grossmann (Hate Eternal, Alkaloid, Obscura, Necrophagist, Blotted Science, and Triptykon) on drums and boasting a guest guitar appearance by The Black Dahlia Murder™s Brandon Ellis on closing track A Tyrant Rises As Titans Fall, FORETOKEN™s technical prowess shines through without overpowering any of the nine songs™ rhythmic charge.
Triumphs was penned throughout 2021 by both Steve Redmond (guitar and orchestration) and Dan Cooley (vocals), with the pair settling on eight original compositions and a cover of Naglfar™s I Am Vengeance. Grossmann then commenced drum tracking at his own studio, Mordor Sounds, with guitars recorded by Redmond himself and vocals captured at Trepan Studios by Tony Petrocelly, before mixing and mastering duties were placed in the accomplished hands of Jacob Hansen (Arch Enemy, Fleshgod Apocalypse, The Black Dahlia Murder, and more) at Hansen Studios. Visually tied together by portrait artist Tomas Honz™s detailed cover painting, depicting a protagonist's journey in the aftermath of battle, Triumphs aesthetic component is a symbolic embodiment of the duo™s enduring fascination with historial consequence via a folkloric lens. Taking fables and fantasy to extreme sonic heights, FORETOKEN™s Triumphs is as lofty in ambition as it is accomplished in its musicianship and songcraft.
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Integrating equal parts black metal savagery and rock n' roll defiance, WORMWITCH's forthcoming album, "Strike Mortal Soil", stands like a monolith commemorating those that came before while dispersing a beacon of hope to the future.
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Prolific, mysterious, chaotic and subtly profound, Heavy Negative Wizard Metal Warlock, B. Nekrasov returns with another brew of fuzzed out black metal and classic NWOBHM.
Tracklisting: 1. Persisting as it does 2. The prophecy came and it was soaked with the common fools forboding 3. High mastery of the woeful arts 4. Drunk on the wizdom of unicorn semen 5. The poor and ridiculous alchemy of Christ and Lucifer and us all 6. Mother Nature, oh my sweet mistress, showed me the other worlds and it was just fallacy 7. Majestic mystical burdens 8. Healing the chakras with heavy negative wizard metal 9. Voluptuous worship of rapture and response 10. Exhaustive glory
South Carolina™s only grind band, WVRM, are preparing to release ‹Colony Collapse‹, their debut release under the Prosthetic Records banner. An uncompromising collection of 14 short, sharp shocks, ‹Colony Collapse‹ is a product of its surroundings, an anthology of its environment, and a detailed record of the lives of the people who made it. Over the course of their preceding three splits, four EPs and two full lengths, WVRM have experimented with pushing their personal and musical boundaries; ‹Colony Collapse‹ captures the evolution of their sound and politics in one relentless and violent release.
LP Pressing: 200 copies on Yellow in Clear w/ Orange Splatter Wax
CD Pressing 1000 copies made worldwide
2nd pressing, 150 copies pressed worldwide on fluorescent pink w/silver and black splatter.
TRACKLISTING:
Walled Slum City
War Promise//Secessionville
Shining Path
Anti-Democracy//Locust Breath
Black Flags Toward Sodom (Me Ne Frego)
Tank Reaper
Hands That Bear The Hive
Thorn Palace
My Fucking Dixie (The New South)
Years Of Lead
Violet Nuclear
Furious Movement//The Burning Tower
Colony Collapse
Angel Of Assassination
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Prosthetic Records remastered and reissued New American Gospel in 2006 with four bonus tracks. The remastered version contains a note on the inlay that explains why the sound of the album is less polished than their newer work. It has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States.
Death is their chief lyrical concern and avowed metal subgenre, but the members of Rochester, New York™s UNDEATH share a decidedly life-affirming outlook. œI think all of us love death metal so much,
Reno™s Progressive Metallers, Four Stroke Baron, will be releasing Monoqueen on 9/25. It™s a collection of cover songs and re-recordings from their album, King Radio, never before available on LP. Artists being covered range from Post Malone, CHVRCHES, Death Grips, and The Beatles along with Red Rider™s classic rock radio staple, Lunatic Fringe.
LP PRESSING - 300 copies pressed on turquoise vinyl CD PRESSING - 500 copies pressed in a digipack cd
TRACKLISTING: 1. Lunatic Fringe (Red Rider cover) 2. Lungs (CHVRCHES cover) 3. Burning Skies (Tones on Tails cover) 4. Mean Mr. Mustard (The Beatles cover) 5. Why a Bitch Gotta Lie (Death Grips cover) 6. Broken Whiskey Glass (Post Malone cover) 7. Gone (King Radio Pt. 1) 8. Vacant Planet 9. Lowly Argonaut 10. Sleep Flood 11. A Sound of Thunder
On Catastrophic Reconfiguration, this IL death metal outfit coughs up spores from mycetozoic muck, Molder exhume ten tracks from very recent, very shallow burials in a graveyard that™s been filled to the brim for thirty years. It™s not slick but slicked, damn near dripping with plasmodial ooze that obliviously recycles its carbon with a charmingly contented stupidity.
If Molder™s sophomore album, Engrossed in Decay was obsessed with decomposition, Catastrophic Reconfiguration, the Joliet, IL Death Metal outfit™s new album, won't have you questioning its content. Band vocalist and guitarist Aaren Pantke leads the group™s resuscitation into 2024 with a reinvigorated approach to writing, recording and playing live, paving the way for the album™s release on November 8th.
Release Date: September 7, 2018
1st pressing on black with grey smoke vinyl. Limited to 300 copies worldwide.
On Cerement, dissonance collides with exquisiteness as Infera Bruo continue to hone in on their unique musical landscape while invoking elements of classic second wave black metal.
Cerement tracklisting: 1. Poison Waters 2. Shroud Enigma 3. Effigy of Reason 4. Endnotes 5. The Lunar Pass 6. Draped In Sky 7. Scorne 8. Temporial
One of Prosthetic's Best of 2018
Atrocity Machine is the latest full-length album from the Vermont-based doom metal band, Body Void. The album, which was released on October 13, 2023, features six tracks of heavy, crushing, and atmospheric soundscapes that delve into themes of environmental collapse, societal decay, and the darker aspects of the human psyche.Atrocity Machine marks a further evolution of Body Void's sound, incorporating more complex song structures and a greater emphasis on dynamics. The album's lyrics are also particularly poignant, tackling issues such as climate change, social inequality, and the devastating consequences of industrialization.
Released on May 1st, 2020
A ten track chronology of the human condition that heaves under the weight of both distortion and emotion, condensed into majestic passages through a choir of multiple instruments and soaring vocals.
LP pressing:
150 copies printed on white/black swirl wax (SOLD OUT)
350 copies printed on white wax
CD pressing: 1000 copies printed on digipack CD.
EXMORTUS deliver a visceral call to arms in a maelstrom of thrashing, neo-classical, blackened death as they tear fresh wounds into their ever-pioneering discography; soaring to unprecedented heights as they mix sonic precision with raw, bloody savagery.
LP first pressing run is as follows:
250 battle axe blood splatter 250 blue and black marble
Having inked a deal with Prosthetic Records, <b>SUMMONING THE LICH</b> are preparing to release their debut full length, <b>United In Chaos</b>. The St Louis, Missouri four piece has created a world where death metal reigns supreme and the realm of fantasy is thoroughly embraced. Taking inspiration from the best elements of <b>Lord of the Rings, Magic The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Adventure Time</b>, and wrapping it up in a fantastical death metal parcel, SUMMONING THE LICH has an attention to detail and commitment to storytelling that is second to none. United In Chaos tells the tale of the rise of the Lich and fall of the Kingdom Rodor - and the spread of his wicked influence across the land as his power grows.
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Reaping Asmodeia combine sheer brutality with meticulous technicality to craft one of the finest extreme death metal albums of the year. Mixed and mastered by Zach Ohren (Suffocation) at Castle Ultimate.
Release Date: February 9, 2018
On Coma Noir, the ever-evolving The Atlas Moth injects a shot of rock into their psychedelic, experimental blend of metal. Produced by Sanford Parker.
TRACKLISTING 1. Coma Noir 2. Last Transmission From The Late, Great Planet Earth 3. Galactic Brain 4. The Streets of Bombay 5. Actual Human Blood 6. Smiling Knife 7. Furious Gold 8. The Frozen Crown 9. Chloroform
One of Prosthetic's Best of 2018
Release Date: June 2, 2015
During their prolific first decade, the Tucson-based gloom metal trio NORTH released four acclaimed EPs and two well-received full-lengths in addition to playing nearly 300 shows across America with the likes of Deafheaven, Red Fang, Neurosis, Pelican and Intronaut. In 2015, the band's profile will continue to rise via reissues of their debut release "Siberia" (2006) and their most recent EP "Metanoia" (2014), which have been combined onto a single 12-track CD featuring unique reversible artwork.
GLACIAL TOMB are set to leave their mark on 2024 as they prepare for the release of their second full length studio album, Lightless Expanse. The Denver, CO trio have embraced the foundations of sludge-corrupted death and black metal from their debut album while leveling up instrumental technicality and nuanced song writing.Â
Glacial Tomb™s unique blend of œsludge-corrupted blackened death metal
Emerging out of the gloom comes Replica of a Strange Love - the new record from Wristmeetrazor. Illuminating the darkest corners of their every nightmare and representing a nihilistic plunge headfirst into an intoxicating mix of death, sin and romance. Replica of a Strange Love is a modern take on metalcore; building on the foundations of their past to leave a shimmering trail of visceral energy in their wake. The album is introspective one, utilizing the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, LaVey and more to make sense of human reactions and sociological phenomena specific to ongoing events. Hopeless romanticism is the past - personal philosophy is the present.
