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Seattle Speed Metallers, Sölicitör, Return With Enemy In Mirrors – This September

Posted in Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , on August 18, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Seattle (WA) – Sölicitör are bringing forth their sophomore studio album of classic 80s style speed metal fury! Enemy in Mirrors is ten songs of haunting, powerful and destructive metal mania.

Five years have passed since Spectral Devastation, Sölicitör’sdebut LP was unleashed. Now they are back with a bang. More leather-bound, more aggressive, more powerful and more metal than ever. From the powerful riffing and impressive drum work to the evocative vocals; it won’t take you long to fall in love with the classic and authentic sound of this new offering. Mixing heavy, speed and even some thrash metal elements to achieve a unique sound of powerful metallic excellence, none shall be spared on this ferocious new opus.

Fans will notice the more dynamic, emotive and varied approach on this album that still retains all of the power and fury of their previous efforts. 

The band took a more DIY approach to the actual recording while re-amping, mixing and mastering was done by Chris Mannino to truly bring the electrifying takes to life. Speaking of DIY, the band’s vocalist Amy handled the artwork for this release, ensuring the bands vision was appropriately represented.

The band put this into words best: “This album was built on blood, sweat and struggle, personal catastrophes and triumphs, division and uncertainty – ultimately pulled together by dedication to a long term vision and determination above all odds to deliver performances that will surely outlast our previous offerings. We believe in the integrity of these songs, as a representation of our evolution and arrival to this point. This album is darker, more melodic, much more expressive, personal, and may take some by surprise for better or worse. Themes of the paranormal, revenge and retribution, betrayal, and a steadfast commitment to heavy metal and all that has come before us as we continue to pursue and mark our place in a drastically different and ever changing landscape.”

The album’s fiery first single, “Iron Wolves of War,” is streaming now on YouTube and Bandcamp.

Gates of Hell Records will release Enemy in Mirrors September 19 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

Pre-order:

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Black Vinyl: https://tinyurl.com/3682nkcn

Dark Night Blue Vinyl: https://tinyurl.com/4c893kwx

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Track Listing:

1. The Descent

2. Paralysis

3. Iron Wolves of War

4. Spellbound Mist

5. We Who Remain

6. Fallen Angel

7 Crimson Battle Beast

8. Enemy In Mirrors

9. Black Magick (Part I)

10. The Devil’s Hand (Part II)

Line-Up:

Matthew Vogan – Guitars/Arrangements/Keyboard/Piano

Patrick Fry – Guitars

Damon Cleary-Erickson – Bass

Johanson Waymire – Drums

Amy Lee Carlson – Vocals

Leif Julin – guest vocals on “Iron Wolves Of War”

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Source: ClawHammer PR

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EVOKEN: American Death/Funeral Doom Emissaries To Release Mendacium Full-Length October 17th On Profound Lore Records

Posted in death doom, funeral doom, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on August 18, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo by Eva Tusquets

“Matins” Single Now Playing + Preorders Available

Stream EVOKEN’s “Matins” HERE.

The most prominent and significant American death/funeral doom emissaries EVOKEN succeed their 2018 landmark Hypnagogia album with their stunning seventh full-length opus, Mendacium, set for release on October 17th on Profound Lore Records. Mendacium is a work that will reveal itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums among their unparalleled repertoire.

Where Hypnagogia would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, Mendacium takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s Quietus and Antithesis Of Light masterworks, all while still encapsulating the tectonic-shifting nature of their Caress Of The Void and Atra Mors releases and venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.

To signal this shift in sound harking back to this previous era, the band enlisted the services of producer Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their Antithesis Of Light and Quietus albums respectively. The resulting Mendacium captures a sepulchral heaviness saturated in ambience with even more of an emphasis on deathlike dread and anguish; an ambience reflecting the depths and catacombs of an ancient cathedral or monastery, ultimately defining Mendacium as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.

Thematically, Mendacium bestows an intriguing concept and story. It tells the tale of a fourteenth century elder Benedictine monk with malady from illness preventing him from leaving his room within the monastery he dwells within. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind?

In advance of the release of Mendacium, today the band unveils the album’s first single, “Matins,” noting of the track, “‘Matins’ is a peek into a reality.”

Stream EVOKEN’s “Matins” HERE.

Mendacium, which features cover art by Worthless, will be released on CD, LP and digital formats. 

Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.

Mendacium – Track Listing:

  1. Matins
  2. Lauds
  3. Prime
  4. Terce
  5. Sext
  6. None
  7. Vesper
  8. Compline

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” – Seneca

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Source: EARSPLIT PR

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CLAUSTROFOBIA Announces U.S. Tour With CRYPTA

Posted in Death Metal, death metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on August 18, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Thrash metal powerhouse CLAUSTROFOBIA aren’t slowing down in 2025. After hitting the road last year with Sepultura, Obituary & Agnostic Front for a brutal run, the Brazilian legends are keeping their foot on the gas. CLAUSTROFOBIA has just announced a handful of brand new tour dates for the rest of 2025 with CRYPTA.

“It will be an honor to hit the road with our friends from Crypta. They’re enjoying tremendous success around the world, and it’s a joy to see Brazilian metal growing stronger. Our journey here in the United States has been very positive, and I can’t wait to start the shows. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and metal will reign supreme as always,” states singer/guitarist Marcus D’Angelo.

“We’re super excited because our brother Garrett Davis, from Unidad Trauma, will be playing bass with us on this tour. This tour will pave the way for the release of our new album, which will be recorded soon after, and then we’ll start planning a trip to Brazil. Thank you all for your support, and the march continues.“

CLAUSTROFOBIA’s latest album, Unleeched, hit stores last fall, or CD/limited-edition cassette can be ordered online https://lnk.to/claustrofobia Unleeched was produced, mixed and mastered by Adair Daufembach (Angra, Cadaver, Tony MacAlpine) with cover artwork by Alcides Burn and the domestic release contains two bonus tracks.

Check out the videos for “The Encrypted,” “Stronger than Faith,” “Riff Cult,” “Strength Beyond Strength” (Pantera cover) and the title track, “Unleeched,” which was edited from live footage from their last tour.

CLAUSTROFOBIA’s history dates back to Marcus founding the band 30 years ago in Brazil and releasing a couple demos in the mid-‘90s. By 2000 with his brother, Caio D’Angelo on drums, the then-quartet released a self-titled album kicking off a run of six albums over the next 16 years with S. American and European distribution and live shows with Slayer, Soulfly and Napalm Death and festival appearances at Portugal’s Barrocelas and the famous Rock in Rio.

Relocating to Las Vegas six years ago in an attempt to break the US market, CLAUSTROFOBIA began playing local shows, and touring around the western US with Exciter, Lich King, Vader, Krisiun, Warbringer and Heathen, in addition to festivals like Charged Noise Fest, Devastation in the Desert, and the Art of Music Fest.

In 2024 CLAUSTROFOBIA did two US tours opening for Exmortus, Generation Kill and Hatriot, as well as one of the biggest metal tours last fall – Sepultura’s final US run including support from such genre heavyweights as Obituary and Agnostic Front. In the meantime, writing is complete for the next album and the band will hit the studio to record it immediately following the Crypta run.

TOUR DATES
Supporting CRYPTA:
09/10/25 USA – Covington, KY / Madison Live
09/11/25 USA – Spartanburg, SC / Ground Zero
09/12/25 USA – Atlanta, GA / The Garden Club (at Wild Heaven West End)
09/13/25 USA – Tampa, FL / The Orpheum
09/14/25 USA – Orlando, FL / Conduit
09/17/25 USA – Dallas, TX / Trees
09/18/25 USA – Houston, TX / Scout Bar
09/20/25 USA – Austin, TX / Come and Take It Live
09/22/25 USA – Phoenix, AZ / The Nile
09/23/25 USA – San Diego, CA / Brick by Brick
09/24/25 USA – Los Angeles, CA / Whisky a Go Go
09/25/25 USA – Las Vegas, NV / Fremont Country Club
09/26/25 USA – Sacramento, CA / Harlow’s
09/27/25 USA – Portland, OR / Star Theater
09/28/25 USA – Seattle, WA / El Corazon
09/30/25 USA – Salt Lake City, UT / Metro Music Hall
10/01/25 USA – Denver, CO / The Oriental Theater
10/03/25 USA – Madison, WI / The Annex
10/04/25 USA – Joliet, IL / The Forge
10/05/25 USA – FT Wayne, IN / Piere’s Entertainment Center
10/07/25 USA – Columbus, OH / The King of Clubs

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