Malthusian hail from Ireland and were formed in 2012 by former or current members of e.g. Abaddon Incarnate, Wreck Of The Hesperus and Mourning Beloveth; indeed, quite impressive it is! The quartet recorded its first demo at the Sun Studio and the material will be released on tape first, followed by a vinyl edition and mini-CD later on.
Primo: Hells Headbangers and their intelligence for the re-issue of classics. In an impressive series (think: Deceased, Beherit, Mortician, Incantation, NunSlaughter, Insanity and many more), the label comes with the vinyl re-release of Dahmer, originally released in 2000 via Decomposed / Hammerheart Records.
Days Of Loss were formed about a decade and a half ago. During the first half of the first decade of this millennium (got it?), they self-released Lobotomy (2001) and Sleeping Gods Lie (2004) before fading into silence for a while.
The German band Darkmoon Warrior was formed at the beginning of the second half of the nineties by two (anti) human beings, Grommon and Atom Krieg. During this era, they recorded stuff that sort of mixed the harsh Black Noise sounds of cult-act Abruptum with industrialised Ambient material à la Neptune Towers (you know, that excellent side-project of Fenriz) (cf. the demos After The Final Armageddon and After The Final Holocaust).
Cokegoat are a very young (formation: 2011) Chicago-based six-piece (Jeff Wojtysiak-g, v; Chase Bentley-g; Tim Baldwin-b; Ed Nudd-g, v; Jordan Schultz-d; and Rebekah Brown-k, v), that debut with Vessel, which will be released on vinyl, and which will get available as well via digital download.
Satan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll was originally released on CD in August 2012, and gets now re-released on vinyl, once again via Invictus Productions. Even though Chapel were formed more than five years ago, it isn’t but this Canadian trio’s sole official release (except for a demo in 2008). And the only reason for this re-release is to please the vinyl-freaks.
Arvas hail from Norway and were originally formed during the first half of the nineties as Örth by V-Rex aka Vassago aka Willie (ex-Ancient, ex-Aeternus, ex-Frozen Cries, ex-Dødsfall, ex-Cold Eternity). Örth recorded an album with legendary producer Pytten at the legendary Grieghallen Studio, but it was never released officially.
Apostolum are a band from Lombardy, Italy, formed about a decade ago. After a demo, the band released a first EP / album in 2006, called Anedonia, but it was one of the many releases within a huge grey mass of pulp. Result: Apostolum faded into silence…
This untitled split-EP/MCD starts with three tracks by pretty young Swedish act Usurpress (formed in Uppsala in 2010), which includes former and current members of e.g. Embalmed and Tyrant (the one from Eskilstuna).
Australian act Moon (one of the hundred bands with that moniker), a solo-project by a guy called Paul Marsh aka Miasmyr (also formerly known from e.g. Urgrund, Forn Valdyrheim or Catacombs), return with the second full length, after a couple of minis and splits. The first album easily made it into my top-five of 2011; Caduceus Chalice was, just like the mini-albums done before, a pleasure for ear and brain in case ‘Underground’ is your thing.
