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MARROWOMB – Debut Album Phisenomie Out Now

Posted in Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , on February 21, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

The debut album from Chicago based blackened-death entity MARROWOMB is now available for download and streaming.

Over five years in the making, Phisenomie is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).

Get Phisenomie at marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie.

Featuring eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album; it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.

The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger (pennyslinger.com/) with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.

Tracklisting:
1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom

Photo Credit: Peter Beste

MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.

MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.

MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums

Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios

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Source: ClawHammer PR

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SCOUR – Gold Full-Length Out Today On Housecore Records/Nuclear Blast | “Coin” Visualizer (Feat. Guest Solo By Gary Holt) Now Playing

Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on February 21, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo by Malcolm Pugh

Stream SCOUR’s “Coin,” featuring a guest solo by Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus), HERE.

Gold, the long-awaited debut full-length from SCOUR, is out today on Housecore Records in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe!

SCOUR is the extreme metal collective boasting the all-star lineup of Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), John Jarvis (Nest, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, Lock Up).

Deepening the experience set forth on their previously released EP trilogy, SCOUR’s Gold pulls the listener through a blistering vortex of speed, aggression, and, above all, absolute horror. Drawing from a deep framework of literary horror masterworks, Gold guides the listener beyond the realm of death and through the metaphysical anomalies of a disheveled and decaying mind.

Metal Injection lauds, “An absolute black metal masterpiece…,” Rock Hard Germany notes, “Anselmo has a rage in his belly that you really believe,” while Antihero Magazine raves, “With Gold, SCOUR refines their sound into an absolute juggernaut of an album. It’s not just a triumph for black metal but for extreme metal as a whole, blending relentless aggression with a modern approach to songwriting and production. This album is a must-buy for fans of extreme metal.”

Stream SCOUR’s “Coin,” featuring a guest solo by Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus), HERE.

Comments Kloeppel, “I don’t normally step aside for SCOUR solos, but, when I do, it’s for guys like Gary Holt from Slayer and Exodus. Bonded By Blood!”

Watch SCOUR’s previously released video for “Infusorium” HERE, “Blades” HERE, and a “History Of…” mini documentary HERE.

Gold is available on CD, LP, limited edition cassette (US only), and digital formats. 

Order yours today at the Housecore Records webshop HERE, Bandcamp HERE, and Nuclear Blast HERE.

SCOUR will perform at this year’s edition of Milwaukee Metalfest alongside Gwar, Arch Enemy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and more! 

SCOUR Live:

5/18/2025 Milwaukee Metalfest @ The Rave/Eagles Club – Milwaukee, WI [info]

Forged in 2015, SCOUR quickly made their mark with the blistering debut single “Dispatched.” Their first release, The Grey EP (2016), came via Anselmo’s own Housecore Records, followed by The Red EP in 2017. In 2020, SCOUR unleashed their most aggressive effort yet, The Black EP, released under Housecore and Nuclear Blast Records and featuring guest appearances from notable figures like Erik Rutan, Pat O’Brien, and actor Jason Momoa.

SCOUR elevates their intensity with Gold, which includes a guest solo by Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus). Recording for Gold began in February 2023 at Nodferatu’s Lair, Philip Anselmo’s personal studio and rehearsal space, which saw the band highly engaged in a concentrated effort toward a truly diabolical composition, with Anselmo leading the charge at every turn. One would often find the entire band in the control room in ecstatic debate, meticulously mulling over every blast beat and divebomb. The album was intermittently refined, and lyrical concepts finalized, over the course of 2023 as touring schedules would allow.

Anselmo began vocal recordings in the Fall of 2023 at The Lair. Backup vocal recordings were then executed by the rest of the band in arena backstage rooms over the course of Pantera’s February 2024 tour, where the full band would also thoroughly review the instrumentation mixes. Once the tracks were finalized by SCOUR and mixing engineer Dennis Israel, they were then passed to Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden for mastering by Jens Bogren.

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Source: EARSPLIT PR

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FINAL DOSE – UK Black Metal Punks Unleash New Single “Weathered Axe”

Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , on February 21, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

“Weathered Axe” is the savage new single from London, England, black metal punks FINAL DOSE. The song, now streaming exclusively at Black Metal Daily, is the latest single preceding the band’s blistering new LP, “Under the Eternal Shadow“.

Stream “Weathered Axe” at THIS LOCATION.

With an inception heading back to the year 2020, UK’s FINAL DOSE have built a reputation from its feral blend of black metal’s icy malevolence and the raw, uncompromising power of punk through the release of a demo, an EP and a full-length album in 2023.

With the experience of touring across the US and Europe granted by the excellent reception of aforementioned “Void Inside”, FINAL DOSE return with a vengeance, a bone-crushing slab of savagery and frostbitten fury entitled Under the Eternal Shadow.

Merging Black Metal and Punk is not in any way a novelty, however few acts have managed to imply the solid edge of both approaches in a such a vehemently organic fashion as the UK horde. From the very first seconds of opener “Eternal Winter”, a clear, powerful, in-your-face production compels the razor-sharp virulent riffs to gleam and cut through the ether like an electrical storm, whereas pounding fast beats function as a taser for the body, a remarkably pulsing mania which serves as a marching order for the wild raging vocals, a performance which renders gist to each word yelled in anguish.

But, beware. Under the Eternal Shadows’ ornamentation is yet provided by various elements such as Dungeon Synth and Folk, details that supply the record with more than a Black Metal/Punk substance. The brilliant slower moments offer an extra dose of bleakness and despair to the filthy fury, together with the lugubrious clean chords, filled with disheartening melody. These traits blazingly give shape to the lyrical concept of the album, the pain and gloom of mental decline, the misery of the societal ravishingly decay. This layer of mournfulness genuinely confers momentum to FINAL DOSE’s art, a sense of impending doom which sticks to the brain and captures the heart, making Under the Eternal Shadow much more than a musical record, but a tome of inspiration through the ashes of the world’s turmoil and dismay.

Wolves of Hades is proud to be releasing on April 11th these hymns of total blackened debauchery on LP / CD / MC and Digitally.

Track-list:

1. Eternal Winter
2. Weathered Axe
3. Rite of Spring
4. Servant
5. Dark Paradise
6. Wretched
7. Funeral March
8. Locked in the Black Dungeon
9. Revenge
10. Drag the Light Down

Credits:

Music written by Final Dose.
Recorded and Mixed by Stanley Gravett at Holy Mountain Studios.
Mastered by Bread Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork by B. Fusco.

FINAL DOSE:

https://finaldose.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/finaldosepunk/

Wolves Of Hades:

https://www.wolvesofhades.com/

https://wolvesofhades.bandcamp.com/

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