BAZUndergroundUpdates CCXXVI
And it’s Wednesday my dudes! Julia Katrin and Tom Osman are of course back with a brand-new instalment of The Underground Updates like you’ve never seen before!
So, let’s see what’s out there…
ARS VENEFICIUM Just last week we had the joy of witnessing the official video premiere of the third music video by the Belgian black metal band Ars Veneficium via Immortal Frost Productions! In case you missed it, you should hurry up and head right over here to check out the video, and of course here to order the upcoming third full length album The Lurking Shadow of Death!
LACABRA Recently having signed up with M-Theory Audio, we can all be excited about what’s coming up from Lacabra, and right now you can head right over here to check out the group´s new single Fractured on all digital platforms, or check out the new video right over here!
NECROFIER & GOATWHORE In the beginning of September, the 5th to be exact, Necrofier will join Goatwhore on their North American Venomous Evocation Tour! You can start to prepare yourself by checking out the tour playlist on YouTube and Spotify of course, but most importantly of all head over here right now for tour and show info, and of course tickets!
NEUROT RECORDINGS The weekly awesome Pay What You Can segment continues over at Neurot Recordings and this week’s album pick is Metaprogramacao by Deafkids! Head over here right now to claim your copy and simply pay what you can!
MIASMA OF OCCVLT LIMBS When a new release drops from Sentient Ruin Laboratories, you don’t need to ask if it will be an excellent blast of intense extreme metal. That’s a given. The question is just, what flavour of extreme metal will it be. In the case of Miasma of Occvlt Limbs and newly-released Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm Chilean death/doom metal is the order of the day. Check out this nasty beast in full here and get yourself a vinyl or digital copy.
MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 Showcasing their own brand of noisy, grindcore-infused hardcore, Missouri Executive Order 44 release their debut album Salt Sermon on The Ghost Is Clear Records. You can listen to the album in full here and get a copy of the album on limited edition vinyl here.
IMMORTAL BIRD Extreme-metal three-piece Immortal Bird have announced their third full-length record. Sin Querencia is due for release on 20 Buck Spin on 18th October. You can get a preview of the death/ black metal barrage here where you can also preorder the album, on CD or limited-edition, coloured vinyl.
Having to pay gigantic sums for international postage is a real gear grinder. While it’s our default setting to link Bandcamp pages in the case of new and pre-releases, we thought it would be helpful to add some online stores that might provide a useful alternative.
So if you see a release you fancy, but it’s being sold in a far off land and you don’t want to fork out on exorbitant shipping, see if any of the links below can remedy the situation.
Dark Essence (Norway) Dark Essence (US)
Direct Merch (Australia)
eOne Heavy (EU) eOne Heavy (UK) eOne Heavy (US)
Metal Odyssey (EU) Metal Odyssey (US)
Napalm Records (Germany)
Prophecy Productions (Germany) Prophecy Productions (US)
Rough Trade (UK) Rough Trade (US)
Season of Mist (EU) Season of Mist (US)
Southern Lord (EU) Southern Lord (US)
Throne Records (World)
Transcending Obscurity (EU) Transcending Obscurity (US)
It’s hard to believe that we are edging closer and closer to the end of August and soon enough to the official end to what was an amazing summer! We hope you used your time in the sun to attend lots of festivals and shows, and we hope you will use the coming wintertime to stock up on all the amazing things we just know artists will start to release!
By Julia Katrin and Tom Osman
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