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Scandinavian death metal band THORIUM strikes back with a vengeance. The new album “The Bastard” is to be unleashed in September. Their sixth album since the formation in 1997 “It wasn’t in the cards, but in Spring this year I felt incredibly inspired to write an album that would go back to the very beginning of Thorium. Make the album that was the natural follow-up from our debut album – or actually go even further back and make an album that was supposed to be our actual debut album. At least in my head. When we played in South America at Septembro Negro Festival in September last year I meet up with my old friend Martin Schulmann (Centinex and Demonical) and that sort of triggered something in me. Martin was a part of the original Thorium line-up. And so was Jonas Lindblood from Taetre (now Puteraeon) who I have kept in touch with during the years. So I was like. Fuck it. Let’s make “The Bastard” album – the original debut album from Thorium”, Thorium-founding MHA says. 

“Somehow it felt like hooking up with a new girl who looks and acts like your old girlfriend and make it turn into a creative relationship that – this time – actually works out and everything turns out exactly how you want it to be – because you are in complete control and you know which mistakes not to make. Does this make sense?”, MHA continues. 

Well, the songwriting tag team with Rogga Johansson (Paganizer), Thomas Olsson (Blackscape) and MHA began work and the operation was quick and dirty, capturing the old vibe of writing Scandinavian death metal. 

The whole process of the album ended up taking less than six months, from the beginning of the songwriting in March, to the recording in April, the mix and mastering in May to the release of the album in September. 

Thorium bass player Jesper Nielsen added the bass and Thorium guitar players JP Storm and Jose Cruz are both featured with guitar solos on the album alongside Jonas Lindblood. 

“Sometimes you end of waiting and waiting and waiting for an album to be released. Some songs are written years ago, recordings done years ago, the album is postponed by the label, all band members have 100 opinions about everything from artwork to the smallest details in the mix. With this album everything feels fresh, energetic and like one big erection”, MHA laughs. 

The mixing and mastering of the album was taken care of Marco Angioni at Angioni Studios and key words were “loud”, “wall out sound”, “massive” with a modern take on old school. 

“This time around we wanted the sound to come of the speakers. Some death metal bands aim for an old school sound like 1991, with “The Bastard” we aimed for a fresh sound anno 2024 that should be massive and with no compromise”, MHA nods. 

“Originally the idea for the album title was “Sverige” (Swedish for… Sweden), as a follow-up to the last album entitled “Danmark” (Danish for… Denmark), so the actual front cover symbolizes the map of Sweden – if you look deep into it. As with the last two albums the Italian master Roberto Toderico was chosen to do the artwork. In the end “The Bastard” was a better fitted titled, though, as this album really was done in a different way, in a bastard way you can only do when you think of the box, have full focus and take full control and probably something you can only do once?”. 

“Vocal-wise this is without a doubt the most varied and most well performed Thorium album ever done. On this album I really felt on top of my game and some of the choruses are the strongest I ever did – in any of the bands I’ve been recording with”, MHA ends.

Confused? Excited?

“The Bastard” is out now on CD, LP (black and red vinyl versions available, each limited to 200 copies) and digital via Emanzipation Productions. 

Recording lineup:

MHA (Michael Hvolgaard Andersen) – Vokills
Jesper Nielsen – Bass
Rogga Johansson – Guitars
Thomas Ohlsson – Drums
Except “Mesmerize” – all strings and drums by Henrik “Heinz” Bastrup Jacobsen

Guitar solos on tracks 2, 5, 9 & 10 by Jens Peter Storm
Guitar Solos on tracks 4, 7 & 8 by Jose Cruz
Guitar Solos on tracks 1 & 3 by Jonas Lindblood
Keys by Marco Angioni

All songs written by Rogga Johansson & Thomas Ohlsson & Michael Hvolgaard Andersen except “Mesmerize” by Henrik “Heinz” Bastrup Jacobsen

All lyrics by Michael Hvolgaard Andersen

Mixed and mastered by Marco Angioni at Angioni Studios

Artwork by Roberto Toderico

Thorium lineup:

MHA (Michael Hvolgaard Andersen) – Vokills
Jens Peter Storm – Guitars
Jose Cruz – Guitars
Jesper Nielsen – Bass
Daniel Preisler-Larsen – Drums

Forged in the desolate lands of Cumbria in the North West of England, Repulsive Vision sought to inject the relentless energy of punk into the merciless musicianship of OSDM to create a cacophonous amalgamation of Entombed, Carcass and Death with Discharge, Nausea and DRI.

Following the release of their debut album (“Look Past The Gore and See The Art”, Mighty Music) in 2017, the band have been prominently active on the underground extreme metal circuit performing all over mainland Europe and the United States (including performances at the following festivals: Hammerfest, Vagos Metal Fest, The Siege of Limerick, Las Vegas Death Fest, Goathell Metal Festival, etc), receiving positive reviews in several worldwide publications, garnering over 68k plays on Spotify and gathering a global fanbase.

In 2020, the band intend to provide 13 more tracks of unbridled aggression with their sophomore release, “Necrovictology” on Emanzipation Productions. Once again, composed and compiled by Matt Davidson (Guitars), Dan McEwan (Vocals), Mark Kirby (Bass) and Gary Young (Drums), Necrovictology builds upon the punk fueled foundations of the debut, progressing their material both sonically and musically, advancing in speed, clarity and technicality. A vicious 40-minute presentation of Old School Death featuring special guest performances from Phil “LandPhil” Hall (Municipal Waste/Iron Reagan), Max Otero (Mercyless), and more.

With performances planned throughout the continent (including slots in Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, etc), Repulsive Vision are planning to branch out further into the global extreme metal scene throughout 2020/21. 

Line-up:
Matt Davidson: guitars, vocals
Danny McEwan: vocals
Gary Young: drums
Mark Kirby: bass

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PUTERAEON returns in 2025 with their fifth full-length album, “Mountains Of Madness”, a relentless dive into the depths of Swedish old-school death metal. Since their formation in 2008, the band – featuring members from Taetre, Reclusion, and Nominon – has consistently refined its sound, pushing further into Lovecraftian horror with each release.

This new album is a natural progression from 2020’s “The Cthulhian Pulse”, both musically and thematically. Closely following the narrative of H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, the record captures the overwhelming terror and cosmic dread of the novella through unrelenting riffs, crushing heaviness, and an atmosphere of pure, otherworldly horror.

Mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö, the album has already left a lasting impression. Swanö himself had this to say: “I have had the pleasure to work with Puteraeon since 2017 and their releases have always been solid, but the quality of this new album completely took me by surprise. It is just so damn good it’s hard to fathom! It’s like they thought about every little detail on how to make the album brutal as hell, yet memorable and extremely epic. I dare to say this one will go down in the history books as one of the best Swe-Death releases ever”.

With “Mountains of Madness”, Puteraeon invites listeners to step beyond the threshold of sanity and into the desolate, frozen abyss of Lovecraft’s vision. This is Swedish death metal at its most intense, atmospheric, and unforgiving.

Enter the white Aeon-dead world of the furthest south!

“Mountains Of Madness” will be released on LP (black vinyl and white vinyl, both limited to 200 copies), jewelcase CD and digital on 31.05.2025, via Emanzipation Productions. 

Lineup:
Jonas Lindblood – vocals & guitars
Rune Foss – guitars & backing vocals
Daniel Vandija – bass
Anders “Hammer of Gs” Malmström – battery

Web:
https://www.facebook.com/PUTERAEON

Pitchblack was born in Denmark in 2002 and, after a couple of demos well-received by the underground, released their debut album “Designed To Dislike” in 2007. In that same year the band was awarded with the Metal debut album of the year by MTV’s Danish Metal Awards.

Fast forward to 2010. The sophomore album “The Devilty” – their first for Mighty Music – was released, with Mercyful Fate’s HankSherman as guest playing a solo one of the tracks. The cover of the record was considered too bloody for the German authorities and was banned in that country. The attention brought by all this, together with the dirty in-your-face death/thrash metal, with obvious references to Swedish death metal, made Pitchblack debut in one of the most important stages in Denmark: Copenhell. This debut as made in 2011.

In the following year, “The Download” EP was released, because the band go the chance to play in the mythical Download Festival.

2020 will be the year of the third Pitchblack album. Named “Death & Disbelief”, it should keep applying to all The Haunted, At The Gates, Entombed and Dismember fans with a soft spot for aggressive catchiness and surprising hooks.

Line-up:
Storm: guitars
Daniel: vocals
Schou: drums
Dag: bass

Web:
https://www.facebook.com/PitchBlackDenmark