[Socket01] KURSK MP3 DEFEATIST MP3		KURSK/DEFEATIST MECHANISMS OF SANCTIMONIOUS FILTH SPLIT 7" Fantastic new split 7" from Kursk and Defeatist. This record is full-on, unrelenting, grinding hardcore. Kursk hail from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada and are a new band for me to work with. Having already released a debut 7" EP, these 2 tracks continue their rampage with sickening, brutal vocals, non-stop, propulsive drumming and twisted, off-kilter guitar lines. Brad, their drummer, was also a former member of Head Hits Concrete and their sound does make reference to other Canadian hardcore beasts (Uranus, One-Eyed God). Defeatist come storming out of the gates with their first release and drop 4 tracks of blistering grindcore. With members having formerly be in Kalibas and Anodyne, they only sacrifice the speed of their fury when transitioning into more deliberate and technical passages. Think the headfuck of Anodyne mixed with the brutality of early Napalm Death. This 7" is an absolute rager. PRESSING INFO: 1ST PRESS 100 "Smoke" 100 White/Black 300 Black 2ND PRESS 100 Opaque Blue 400 Black
[Socket02] COFFINS MP3 ORDER HERE		COFFINS THE OTHER SIDE OF BLASPHEMY 2xLP Absolutely crucial vinyl release of this immense album. Coffins was spawned from a need to create slow, crawling detuned death metal in the vein of old masters like AUTOPSY and WINTER. An obvious HELLHAMMER/FROST obsession rears its putrid head upon opening this Coffin as well. Bringing the pain all the way from Japan, Coffins' 2nd full length release "The Other Side Of Blasphemy" is derivative in the best possible sense of the word. No frills, just thrills for those disgusted at the mockery nowadays metal seems to have become. Where are the bands like CARNAGE and old GRAVE? Mid-paced, skull-crushing death metal and brutally low vocals - Coffins carries the torch that very few seem to bear. Fenriz is gonna love this record. PRESSING INFO: 1ST PRESS 100 "Blood" Red 400 Black 2ND PRESS 150 Red/Black Streaks 350 Black
[Socket03]		NEGURA BUNGET OM 2xLP Another crucial vinyl release of this superb album. Negura Bunget is now considered as one of the best underground black metal bands in the world and are finally back after the acclaimed CD N Crugu Bradului. OM is a Stellar Opus, a concept-album dealing with Purification, part of a Ritual to transform the listener into an evolved individual... The 2xLP will have 1 extra bonus track not found on the CD. PRESSING INFO: N/A AVAILABILITY: COMING SOON
[Socket04]		COFFINS/THE ARM & SWORD OF A BASTARD GOD SPLIT LP PRESSING INFO: N/A AVAILABILITY: COMING SOON
[Socket06] ORDER HERE SACRILEGIOUS IMPALEMENT MP3		SACRILEGIOUS IMPALEMENT S/T CD Debut release from this devastating Finnish horde. Absolutely crushing and punishing Black Metal. US license on Enucleation. European release on the excellent Blasphemous Underground Productions. PRESSING INFO: 1000 CDs RELEASE DATE:4/29/2008
[Socket07] ORDER HERE		RUNEMAGICK VOYAGE TO DESOLATION / DAWN OF THE END CD Hailing from the darkest depths of Surte, Sweden, Runemagick evoke feelings of utter desolation and despair with their new album, Voyage to Desolation/Dawn of the End. Started in late 1990 and focused on playing a mid-tempo death/doom style of metal, they took inspiration from the classic death/black metal bands: Celtic Frost, Bathory, Autopsy, and Hellhammer. Chock full of heavier than thou riffage cohered with haunting leads and blackened undertones, this album brings to mind the darkness and despair of a plodding funeral procession. Crushing and deliberate at one point, moody and distant in the next, Runemagick aurally depicts the dreary murk and fog that embodies the coldest, most dimsal graveyard Sweden has to offer. This version offers one new track not found on the European release. PRESSING INFO: 1000 CDs RELEASE DATE: 3/18/2008
[Socket08] ORDER HERE		DEAD CONGREGATION PURIFYING CONSECRATED GROUND CD North American pressing of their debut EP. Old school evil death metal in the vein of early Incantation and Immolation. This pressing comes packaged in a digipak. They have recently released their debut full length on NWN! Records. We will soon be working with them again to release a split 7"/CD with Hatespawn. PRESSING INFO: 1000 CDs RELEASE DATE: 4/29/2008
[Socket10]		GRAVEHILL METAL OF DEATH / ADVOCATION OF MURDER & SUICIDE CD “Metal of Death / The Advocation of Murder and Suicide” is the debut of Southern California’s True Death Metal Messiahs… GRAVEHILL! This release includes re-recorded versions (originally released by METAL HORDE PRODUCTIONS 07’) of the hymns “A Promise Made in Heresy”, “Purifier of Flesh” and “Ravager” as well as the 2 part hymnal appropriately titled “The Advocation of Murder & Suicide”. GRAVEHILL are the decibel equivalent of a knife across the throat, a hammer to the temple and the deliverance to how Death Metal is meant to be played! PRESSING INFO: 1000 CDs RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2008