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BELPHEGOR Announce Praise The Beast North American Tour 2026

Posted in Black Metal, blackened death metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news, norwegian black metal with tags , , , , , , , on November 26, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo by: Afra Catharina

Black death metal force, BELPHEGOR, will unleash their magickal procession across North America this February and March with the Praise the Beast Tour 2026.

These diabolical gatherings mark the band’s return to North America after recently inking a pact with one of the fastest-rising forces in metal – Reigning Phoenix Music.

The tour’s carnage will begin on February 19th in Brooklyn, NY, and proceed to devastate the United States and Canada before finally ending in Anaheim, CA, on March 10th.

Helmuth states: “Always a great experience and a pleasure to celebrate extreme Musick in North America. Which procession will you attend?”

Special guests on this trek are death metallers INCANTATION, plus HATE & NARCOTIC WASTELAND. 

Tickets are available for purchase HERE: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/4929-belphegor

Praise The Beast North American Tour 2026:

02/19 – Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Monarch  
02/20 – Lowell, MA, Taffeta Music Hall  
02/21 – Montreal, QC, Le Studio TD  
02/22 – Toronto, ON, Lee’s Palace  
02/23 – Lakewood, OH, Mercury Music Hall  
02/24 – Joliet, IL, The Forge  
02/26 – Denver, CO, HQ  
02/27 – Albuquerque, NM, Launchpad  
02/28 – Haltom City, TX, Haltom Theater  
03/01 – Houston, TX, Scout Bar  
03/02 – San Antonio, TX, Paper Tiger  
03/05 – Mesa, AZ, The Rosetta Room  
03/06 – San Diego, CA, Brick by Brick  
03/07 – San Francisco, CA, DNA Lounge  
03/08 – Roseville, CA, Goldfield Trading Post  
03/09 – Los Angeles, CA, 1720  
03/10 – Anaheim, CA, The Observatory

Listen to the band’s latest single “Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus” HERE: https://belphegor.rpm.link/sdcPR

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/yCORFvKY6J0

About BELPHEGOR:

Since their formation in 1993 in Austria, BELPHEGOR have stood as one of the most brutal and transgressive forces in black death metal. Founded by vocalist and guitarist Helmuth Lehner, the band has spent over three decades refining a sound forged in fire and sacrilege, merging the violent precision of death metal with the ritualistic darkness of black metal. Their musick is an invocation of infernal power, a soundwall of relentless blasphemy.

More from BELPHEGOR: www.belphegor.at | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube

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reigningphoenixmusic.com | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube

Source: C Squared Music

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ECTOVOID’s Dark Abstraction Gets The Boris Records’ Vinyl Treatment

Posted in Black Metal, blackened death metal, Death Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , on September 13, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Birmingham (AL) – Ten years after its initial release and in honored celebration of the band’s fifteenth anniversary of existence, Boris Records is proud to announce today’s exclusive vinyl reissue of Ectovoid’s long out of print sophomore full-length album, Dark Abstraction. The limited reissue comes in two versions – plain black and marbled purple.

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The band’s most recent full length recording and tragically the last to feature the band’s late founding guitarist Michael Stewart, Dark Abstraction, was originally released in 2015 on CD by Polish label Hellthrasher Productions and LP by Swedish label Blood Harvest Records. A massive step forward in every way from the outfit’s well regarded if unpolished debut album, Dark Abstraction represented an energetic, riff-focused, and creative spin on the cavernous blackened death metal sound that was flooding the scene in copious amounts in the mid-2010’s.

Band photo by Amber Slanders

With eight varied and memorable tracks, a greatly improved production, and an ever-advancing sense of expression and craftsmanship from all instruments, this was the sound of a young band stepping out of their formative beginnings and emerging confidently as the established and respected outfit they are known as today.

Boris Records is excited to bring this under-appreciated work of death metal darkness back to the public consciousness. Ectovoid’s exhumation from the forgotten graves is long overdue.

Track Listing:

1. Obscure Altars

2. Visions of Reflective Decay

3. Mental Netherworlds

4. Precipice of Absolute Chaos

5. Rituals of Hallucination

6. The Expanse Between Slumber and Death

7. A Prisoner of Paradox

8. Spawned from Unending Mystery

Ectovoid:

C.B. – Bass/Vocals
M.S. – Guitar
C.M. – Drums

Recorded in Autumn 2014 by Joshua Freemon at Dead Sound Studios.
Mixed by Joshua Freemon.
Mastered by Damian Herring at Subturranean Watchtower Studios.
Cover art by Bartlomiej Kurzok.

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Blackened Death Reigns: Shadows Release Debut Album, Miseria

Posted in blackened death metal, Death Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on August 30, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Album Artwork: Fernando Rojas B. (Abismo Black Arts)

German/Swedish Blackened Death Metal band, Shadows, have released their debut album, Miseria. Featuring former members of such notable acts as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous, the quartet now proudly presents nine songs of unrelenting misanthropy.

Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here. The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating, yet also melodic and solemn.

Purchase/Stream Miseria:

shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria

tidal.com/album/442668800

open.spotify.com/album/0856fqYQvPh3rI3hLB80Fb

music.apple.com/us/album/miseria/1821204540

deezer.com/us/album/774012671

Track Listing:

1. As Above So Below [Video]

2. Lamia [Video]

3. Delivered From Sin [Video]

4. Nadir (No Consent)

5. Spring Sleepwalker

6. A Seance

7. Mässa XCIV

8. Cycles

9. Unnamed Sorrow

Album Credits:

Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.

Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.

Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.

Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.

Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.

Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.

Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.

Line-up:

Dejan Milenkovits – Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden – Guitars
Andreas Holm – Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums

BIO:

Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album. 

The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.

In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.

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DROUTH – Reveals Title Track/Video For Upcoming Album,’The Teeth of Time,’ Due Out May 16th

Posted in blackened death metal, Death Metal, death metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on May 4, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo Credit: Jason DeSomer

Portland blackened death-metal band DROUTH has unveiled the title track from their impending album, The Teeth of Time, that’s out May 16th from Eternal Warfare Records. 

Commenting on the single, the band states: 

“‘The Teeth of Time’ was an obvious choice for us to make the title track and centerpiece of the album, as it encapsulates the lyrical and musical themes most central to Drouth at this moment. It is the fullest realization of our artistic ambition yet, and having our friends Laurie Sue and Christy Cather contribute guest vocals was truly an honor. Their projects, Ludicra in particular, are huge sources of inspiration for us and we knew their distinctive styles would fit perfectly with the song.“

The face-melting and mind-bending torrential new song was first revealed at DecibelMagazine.com and follows the previously released track “False Grail.” 

Adding about the record, the band has said: 

“We are proud to present The Teeth of Time, a culmination of several years of blood, sweat and pain. It is a nightmare made manifest, and we are both eager to share our creative work and grateful to the many people who helped make it possible.”

Pre-Order The Teeth of Time: https://drouth.bandcamp.com

“TEETH OF TIME” MUSIC VIDEO: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNSbzmfcqo

The Teeth of Time Tracklist: 
1. Hurl Your Thunderbolt Even Unto Death
2. False Grail
3. The Teeth of Time
4. Through a Glass, Darkly
5. Exult, Ye Flagellant

Drouth:
Matt Stikker: Guitar, vocals, lyrics
Patrick Fiorentino: Drums
John Edwards: Guitar, vocals
Matt Solis: Bass

About DROUTH:
Portland’s Drouth formed in 2012, originally under the name Contempt before changing their moniker following the release of their 2014 EP Skinwalker. The band stirred the local scene with their potent mixture of black metal, death metal, doom, and crust, and went on to release another EP, Vast, Loathsome (2015) and two albums Knives, Labyrinths, Mirrors (2017) and Excerpts From a Dread Liturgy (2020).

Their follow up, The Teeth of Time was recorded and mixed with legendary engineer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Cattle Decapitation) and mastered by Justin Weis (Agalloch, Hammers of Misfortune) and features five tracks of vicious, melodically adventurous black/death metal, spread across 40 unrelenting minutes.

Follow DROUTH:
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