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Alright! Let’s get this Easter version of The Underground Updates going!
So, let’s see what’s out there…
Check this news…
GORGATRON After completing two successful month-long tours in the summer and fall of last year, Gorgatron also just finished a short run supporting underground death metal legends Pessimist and coinciding with the beginning of the tour there was also a premiere of a brand-new video to the track Divulgence, taken from Gorgatron´s latest release, Sentience Revoked! Head over here right now to check it out!
MOLDER Taken from their latest LP Catastrophic Reconfiguration; Molder have now dropped a brand-new video for their slammer of a track Overdue Burial! Head over here right now to check it out!
GAAHLS WYRD Emerging like a phantom from the depths of an unseen plane, Time and Timeless Timeline is Gaahls Wyrd at their most lucid and direct! Taken from their upcoming second album, you can head over here right now to check out the new music video, and of course over here to place your pre-order for the album, Braiding the Stories, out on June 6th via Season of Mist!
SEVERED ANGEL Melodic/progressive metal group Severed Angel have released the official video for the track A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, taken from their new album When Eternity Ends! Head over here right now to check it out!
TELEPATHY Cinematic most-metal quartet Telepathy have unveiled a new video for their behemoth track End Transmission, taken from their most recent, and acclaimed, records Transmissions! Check it out right now over here!
Soon, it will be out…
DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE Combining mournful, ethereal saxophone and synths with thunderous, crushing doom metal Divide and Dissolve release their latest album Insatiable this coming Friday (via Bella Union). Check out the preview tracks here where you can pre-order the album on special edition limited vinyl, CD or digital download.
TRIBUNAL Also out this Friday (via 20 Buck Spin), In Penitence and Ruin is the latest album from Canadian symphonic doom act Tribunal. Check out the preview tracks here where you can get hold of the album on tri-color vinyl, CD, cassette, or digital download.
BLOOD MONOLITH And for those who’d like to have their face and ears ripped off with some skull-smashing death metal, check out The Calling of Fire incoming from Washington D.C.’s Blood Monolith—featuring members of Nails and Ulthar. Out on the 16th of May via Profound Lore Records. You can listen to a preview track here and pre-order the album on CD. Meanwhile if you’d like to pre-order the album on vinyl, you can do so here.
Check the following links…
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)
As we are in the midst of this Easter week, all of us at BAZ would like to wish all of our readers a very happy Easter, and we hope you use this time to take advantage of all the goodies and merch out there!
By Julia Katrin and Tom Osman
**Please support the underground! It’s vital to the future of our genre.**
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