Arizona death metal band GATECREEPER return with their highly anticipated new album Deserted, coming October 4th, 2019 on Relapse Records, and you can listen to the first single 'Boiled Over' below.

GATECREEPER comment: "The first song from 'Deserted' we chose to share with the world is 'Boiled Over'. With this song, we tried to capture the melodic side of Bolt Thrower mixed with the crushing heaviness and groove of bands like Obituary or Crowbar. There is a confident swagger to the song that any fan of heavy music can enjoy."

Gatecreeper - Deserted
	1. Deserted 2. Puncture Wounds 3. From The Ashes 4. Ruthless 5. Everlasting 6. Barbaric Pleasure 7. Sweltering Madness 8. Boiled Over 9. In Chains 10. Absence Of Light

Greetings fellow headbangers of the MetalBite legion! Another edition of our new section of the website where you can find new reviews for older releases is up and ready to be enjoyed. Some more old goodies that you may be interested in or missed out on were looked at again, all information updated with useful links and properly written reviews. We hope this new edition will prove useful for all that like to constantly discover new music, bands and headbanging goodies. Thank you so much for the support. Check out previous edition of Digging Through Past here, and if there is anything we can improve on just write us. Cheers!

Impaled Nazarene - Ugra-Karma (1993) - Osmose Productions - Felix

Körgull The Exterminator - Dogs Of War (2009) - Xtreem Music - Felix

Horna - Sudentaival (2001) - Woodcut Records - Felix

Infinity - Hybris (2017) - New Era Productions - Felix

Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows (2007) - Stellar Winter Records - Felix

Root - Daemon Viam Invenient (2007) - Shindy Productions - Mladen

Katharsis - VVorldVVithoutEnd (2006) - Norma Evangelium Diaboli - Mladen

Sarke - Viige Urh (2017) - Indie Recordings - Felix

Corpsehammer - Sign Of The Corpsehammer (2019) - Unpure Records - Vladimir

Carnage - Dark Recollections (1990) - Earache Records - Rosh

Lord Vicar - The Black Powder (2019) - Independent - Rosh

Titans Eve - Chasing The Devil (2015) - Independent - Greg

Acid Age - Semper Pessimus (2021) - Independent - Greg

Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light (2018) - Prosthetic Records - Greg

Krieg - The Black Plague (2001) - War Hammer Records - Carl

Suffocation - ...Of The Dark Light (2017) - Nuclear Blast - Fran

Körgull The Exterminator - War Of The Voivodes (2010) - Xtreem Music - Fran

Horna - Hengen Tulet (2015) - World Terror Committee - Felix

Azaghal - Madon Sanat (2015) - Hammer Of Hate Records - Felix

On February 21st, 2020, High Roller Records will reach the ultimate level of diabolic bestiality and release the debut full-length album, "Cursed To The Pyre" from Belgium's deadly thrashers SLAUGHTER MESSIAH, but today we're proud to crush your temple with deadly blow from grim and devastating single, 'From The Tomb Into The Void'.

Of course, the prototypical promo sheet babbles about a more mature style, a big step forward and yada, yada, yada but what can be taken seriously? Indeed, the tracks impress with mature and excellent structures. On the one hand, they celebrate sinister catchiness. Already the opener 'From The Tomb Into The Void' scores with a very memorable chorus. On the other hand, the song patterns avoid the traditional conventions successfully. This homogeneous album does not lack variety, even though the creative wiggle-room of this archaic form of metal is pretty limited. But I see definitely no evolution – and I am absolutely happy about this fact. My simple thought is: why change the best? Already the last two EPs mirrored the outstanding (and ripe) song-writing competence of these harbingers of the Apocalypse. I love to experience this kind of stagnation. Is there anything better than ingenious musicians confirming their abilities, their mentality and their status? Okay, maybe sex with Debbie Harry when she was 35 years old, but I fear no one of us has this opportunity to compare.

The eight songs exceed the 42 minutes mark, but don't worry. They don't lack compactness and come to the point in a matter of seconds. This goes for straight torpedoes like 'The Hammer of Ghouls' as well as for multi-layered pieces such as 'Hideous Affliction'. Slaughter Messiah can be compared with the aforementioned Necrophobic, but they do not just combine black and death metal. A thrashing element haunts through their music as well and regardless of the exact stylistic mix, they unleash five percent more fury than the Swedish role models. Perhaps one can say that Slaughter Messiah connect the black aesthetics of Ketzer's "Satan's Boundaries Unchained" with the monstrous vehemence of Desaster's "Angelwhore". Needless to say, that their sound also reminds me very pleasantly of the brilliant Enthroned debut. Anyway, let's stop the namedropping, because the king of venomous nagging (Lord Sabathan, who else?) and his henchmen stand on their own feet. They do not use blast beats (if we neglect some extremely fast parts in 'Pouring Chaos'), but more or less every other tried and tested ingredient of blackened, thrashing death metal. Profound, effective riffs meet murderously howling solo guitars, well embedded high-pitched screams express pain and (a surprisingly big number of) melodies that Satan himself could not have done better are accompanied by precise drumming and supported by a few atmospheric, almost spiritual sounds every now and then. By the way, all these building blocks benefit from a mighty and infernal production. This pretty transparent yet homicidal mix is simply perfect for this kind of music.

Full review of Slaughter Messiah's "Cursed To The Pyre" can be found here.

SLAUGHTER MESSIAH is:

Lord Sabathan - Vocals/Bass
Rod "Iron Bitch Desecrator" - Guitars
Thomas "Exhumator" - Guitars
John Berry - Drums

MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS:

https://www.facebook.com/slaughtermessiah
https://slaughtermessiah.bandcamp.com/
https://www.hrrecords.de/
https://www.facebook.com/hrrecords

Costa Rican death metal band ADVENT OF BEDLAM unleashed new music video for 'A Liar's Spit', taken from their latest record Human Portal Phenomenon, which was released on May 4th, 2018 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.

Advent Of Bedlam - Human Portal Phenomenon
	1. Human Portal Phenomenon 2. Olympus Mons 3. Born Of Synapses 4. The Ever Watchful Eye 5. A Liar's Spit 6. A Human Farm 7. The Vanishing 8. Crown Of Greed 9. Comstockery 10. Vultures Of The World