[2024-10-21] OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!! RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER - Sinking into Filth CD [MEMENTO-CXLII] The pulverizing 4th full-length by this German band. Summoned in North Rhine-Westphalia in November 2008, the walking corpse known as Reckless Manslaughter is living proof that death has many faces, covering all tempo variations and unaware of trends or conventions, all the while maintaining a core personality of their very own. To descend into the nether regions where these Death Metal acolytes dwell is to be left to fester in a desolate and fathomless realm whose landscape is filled to the brim with violent blasts, crushing mid-tempo sections, gloomy doom-ish parts and atrocious growls, rounded off with a sprinkling of eerie Finnish melodies. Reckless Manslaughter are nothing if not dependable, and across their three full-lengths to date the Germans have proudly upheld the banner of pure and total Death Metal. And thankfully, they show no signs of letting down that banner with their new opus, "Sinking into Filth". Like its album predecessors, "Sinking into Filth" is all too accurately titled, with wave after wave of world-eating riff and vocal swallowing the listener whole. Reckless Manslaughter here exude a uniquely "gloomy bounce" in their stridently surging songcraft; the energy is felt in full -usually, in the listener´s chest cavity- but a paradoxically sorrowful sensation is intertwined into these judiciously compact compositions. What results is something both hypnotizing and heavy, in all senses of the world. Or, simply, this filth is fucking huge. The climax comes with the closing 10-minute epic "Risen from the Mass Grave", which literally sounds like its title. Need more hints? Just check out the cover art, courtesy of Lucas Korte. Maniacs of Bolt Thrower, Demigod, Benediction and Asphyx should already be familiar with Reckless Manslaughter. Those who aren´t are encouraged to begin "Sinking into Filth". Expect nothing but utter annihilation and uncompromising, underground-worshipping Metal of Death! MYSTIC CHARM - Shadows of the Unknown CD [MEMENTO-CXLIII] Repress of one of the OOP and most sought-after Memento Mori reissues, a cult and obscure Death/Doom Metal classic from the Dutch scene, originally released in 1994, featuring the original cover art and a revamped layout that includes pictures taken from the band´s personal archives, liner notes by Gerlach Timmer (Mystic Charm´s bassist), and the "Endless Sickness" demo (1992) as bonus. Remastered by the band themselves, "Shadows of the Unknown" is a haunting journey into dismal, atmospheric and morbid Death/Doom Metal with eerie, rotten female vocals straight from a mouldy forgotten crypt. An absolute must for anybody into the sickening darkness of bands such as Delirium, Sempiternal Deathreign, Derkéta, early Paradise Lost, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, early My Dying Bride, Winter, Mythic... COFFIN LURKER - Foul and Defiled CD [MEMENTO-CXLIV] Official reissue of the debut full-length, previously only available on vinyl/tape/digital since its June 2021 release, by this two-headed Dutch Death/Doom Metal abomination. Maurice De Jong a.k.a. Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues, Cloak of Altering, De Magia Veterum, Dodenbezweerder...), and Rene Aquarius (Cryptae, Dead Neanderthals, Imperial Cult, Plague Organ...) join forces in Coffin Lurker, a repulsive experiment begotten unto a perverse delusion of ushering Death/Doom Metal beyond extremes of heaviness and horror it has never before seen or fathomed. Overwhelming and atrocious in its every aspect, on their hideous debut album the Dutch terror-doom duo set out on a mission of terrifying extremism to take Death/Doom Metal to its most harrowing consequences, crossing every threshold of extreme known, to materialize a humongous slow moving nightmare of paralyzing and blood-curdling horror that will flatten the listener and devour them inside a nauseating void. Emanating with a monstrous and oppressive aura of total death and decay, "Foul and Defiled" is a gargantuan sepulchral entity of subterranean megaton Death/Doom Metal rising from an underworld of ageless and unnameable demise and suffering that sonically aims to re-evoke the hideous and death-obsessed immensity of other underground extreme/experimental abominations, while taking the heinous formula, if possible, even beyond its own already incomprehensible and remote confines of sanity. Utterly recommended to fans of Encoffination, Grave Upheaval, Primitive Man, Spectral Voice, Catacombs, Moss... [2024-10-07] CANDARIAN (Costa Rica) signed to Memento Mori!!! In our endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage Death Metal, we´re extremely thrilled to announce a new signing: CANDARIAN, from Costa Rica. Hailing from one of the most fertile scenes in recent years, CANDARIAN was spawned in 2020 when Christopher (guitar) and Jose Pablo (bass/vocals) decided to start a new project inspired by old school Death Metal from the early 90´s, like Autopsy and Incantation, with lyrics revolving around themes of gore and horror. After some rehearsals, Pablo (drums) and Felipe (guitar) were recruited and the lineup was then completed. The following months, the band focused on finishing their debut demo, titled "Stagnant Livor Mortis", and presenting it live throughout the local scene. CANDARIAN´s malignant, odious, reckless and groove-laden Death Metal could bring long-buried corpses bubbling to the surface in a quagmire of rottenness. It´s a putrescent and slimy soundscape of horror and doom that goes above the basic old school worship, while including all the necessary filth that vintage Death Metal needs, to create something with a haunting quality too, making for a much more unforgettable listen. Prepare to bang your head and drudge through the mulched layers of corpses that CANDARIAN leave in their wake. The time is nigh to become possessed by real terror and carnage! CANDARIAN´s debut full-length is due out by mid 2025. Memento Mori will release the CD version and Me Saco Un Ojo Records will take care of the LP, tape and digital versions. Further details to follow in the coming months. Meanwhile, make sure to follow them on Instagram and listen to their previous output (links below). Discography: "Stagnant Livor Mortis" demo (2022) Links: https://www.instagram.com/candarianhorror https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/stagnant-livor-mortis [2024-10-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: APPARITION - Fear the Apparition CD CEMETERY DWELL - Towards a Dreadful Cosmos CD CEMETERY FILTH - Senses of Detriment CD CONVULSIVE - The Grotesquery Ruins of Death CD DEAD CHASM - Dead Chasm MCD DEAD CHASM - Sublimis Ignotum Omni CD DEHUMAN REIGN - Ascending from Below CD DEHUMAN REIGN - Descending upon the Oblivious CD DEHYDRATED - Ideas CD (digipak) DEHYDRATED - Resurrection CD DEHYDRATED And Death Shall Have No Dominion MCD (slimcase) DENOMINATION - They Burn As One CD DENOMINATION - The Last Companion CD DISGORGE - Forensick CD (digipak) ENCOFFINATION - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh CD ENCOFFINATION - III - Hear Me, O´ Death CD ENCOFFINATION / ROTTING KINGDOM - Wretched Enigma of Salvation CD ENCOFFINATION / SHAMBLES - Underneath the Great Abyss CD EVOKED - Immoral Arts MCD GENOCIDE - Breaking Point (25th Anniversary Edition) 2CD KEITZER - Pandemonium Humanitas CD MORTAL INCARNATION - Lunar Radiant Dawn MCD NUCLEAR STENCH - Inherit Decay CD PARASITARIO - Afterlife Truth MCD PARASITARIO - Everything Belongs to Death CD PARRICIDE - After the Funeral 2CD PHANTASMAGORY - Odd Sounds CD ROTTEN MALEFICE - En los Brazos de la Muerte CD SANCTUARIUM - Melted and Decomposed CD SARCOUGHAGUS - Remnants CD SLAUGHTERDAY - Laws of the Occult CD SLAUGHTERDAY - Ancient Death Triumph CD SLAUGHTERDAY - Tyrants of Doom CD TRAUMA - Invisible Reality + Promo 1991 CD (slipcase) TRAUMA - Comedy Is Over CD (slipcase) TRAUMA - Ominous Black CD (slipcase) TRAUMA - Acrimony MCD WINGLESS - Nonconform CD WINGLESS - Ascension CD BESTIAL INVASION - Monomania CD (digibook) BESTIAL INVASION - The Divine Comedy: Inferno CD (digibook) CRITICAL DEFIANCE - Misconception CD CRITICAL DEFIANCE - No Life Forms CD DISCIPLES OF POWER - Invincible Enemy CD (digipak) DISCIPLES OF POWER - Mechanikill CD (digipak) HATCHEND - Summer of ´69 CD MASTER OF CRUELTY - The First Vomits CD VEXOVOID - Call of the Starforger CD (digipak) [2024-09-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: AMON - Sacrificial / Feasting the Beast CD ANTISMA - Mockery CD BLACK DUST - Katorga on a Distant Planet CD BRODEQUIN - Harbinger of Woe CD (slipcase) BROKEN HOPE - Repulsive Conception CD (slipcase) BROKEN HOPE - Mutilated and Assimilated CD CANCER - To the Gory End CD (slipcase) CANCER - Death Shall Rise CD (slipcase) CARCINOGEN - Complete Discography 2CD CARNAL DIAFRAGMA – The Garden of Earthly Delights CD CATACOMB ABSCESS - Primeval Mutilation CD CEMETERY ROT - Eurphoric Consumption of Human Flesh MCD CEREMONIAL DECAY - The Crescent and the Cross MCD COFFIN DUST - Nightmare Vision CD CORRUPTER - Descent into Madness CD DAEMONUS PERVERSUS - Decretum MCD DESULTORY - Darkness Falls (The Early Years) CD DISBURIAL - Undying Dead Exhumations CD DMC – All For a Piece of Iron CD DOBYTCI MOR – Shambles CD ECTOPLASMA - Cavern of Foul Unbeings CD (slipcase) ECTOPLASMA - White-Eyed Trance CD (slipcase) ENDEMIC - The Church of Destruction CD EXECRATOR - Silent Murder CD EXULT - Primeval Darkness MCD FOSSILIZED - Remnants of Decimation MCD GLUTTED SWARM - ...Of Old CD GOATLORD - Distorted Birth: The Demos 2CD GROTESQUE DEITY - Bloodream CD GUTS - Decay CD HEMORRHOID - Raw Materials of Decay CD HOSTIA - Hostia CD (slipcase) HOSTIA - Nailed CD (slipcase) HYMEN HOLOCAUST - Love Me Deadly MCD HYPNOTIC SCENERY - Detur & Crystal Curtain CD INGROWING / DISFIGURED CORPSE - One Two Three Four We Are Vampires CD INSINERATEHYMN - A Moment in a Vision CD LAST RETCH - Ergotism MCD MIVEDANTAL - Gallery of Human Perversity CD MONSTROSITY - The Passage of Existence CD MORGUE (France) - Artgore CD MORGUE (France) - Lowest Depths of Misery CD MORGUE (France) - Close to Complete Darkness CD MORTA SKULD - Dying Remains CD (slipcase) MORTUARY ANCESTOR - The Beginning of the End CD NECROCCULTUS - Unburied Hellish Presences MCD NIGROMANCIA - Vortex of Existence CD PHARMACIST - Forensic Pathology Jurisprudence [Extended Jurisdiction] CD PHARMACIST - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition CD PHARMACIST - Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds CD PHARMACIST - Carnal Pollution MCD PIG´S BLOOD - Pig´s Blood CD PIG´S BLOOD - A Flock Slaughtered CD PURULENT SPERMCANAL / IMPETIGO - Split CD PUTRIFIED - Neurotic Necrotic CD (digipak) PUTRIFIED - Death Darkness Decay CD REPUGNANCE - Perpetual Deviousness Vol 1. CD REPUGNANCE – Retrieving Dead Bodies MCD ROTTEN TOMB - Abysmatic Proclamations CD SACRIVERSUM - The Shadow of the Golden Fire - Early Days CD SKELETAL REMAINS - Desolate Isolation CD (slipcase) SKELETAL REMAINS - Fragments of the Ageless CD (slipcase) SUPERSTITION - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation CD TOTTEN KORPS - Tharnheim: Athi-Land-Nhi; Ciclopean Crypts of Citadels CD TRAUMA - Comedy Is Over CD (slipcase) TRAUMA - Ominous Black CD (slipcase) TRAUMA - Acrimony MCD UNDEAD - Existential Horror CD VADER - The Empire CD VOMITORY - All Heads Are Gonna Roll CD (slipcase) VRYKOLAKAS - The Necromantic Revocation CD WINDS OF LENG - Horrid Dominion CD (digipak) ABOMINABLOOD - Dark Creatures in the Vaccum of Dementia + Bonus CD (digipak) ABOMINABLOOD - The Ophidian Ascendancy CD (digipak) ABOMINABLOOD - Darkness in Planetary Transmutation CD AMALTHEIA - Amaltheia CD (digipak) DEATHLIKE DAWN - Among the Graves of the Archetypes CD EOS - The Great Ascension CD (digipak) ETHELYN - Anhedonic CD HORNS - Oświecenie CD IMMORTAL - The Northern Upir´s Death CD MASTER´S HAMMER - Finished! The Complete Demo Edition 3CD (digibook) NEMUS - Stein - Mensch CD NIGRUM - Elevenfold Tail CD PRIMITIVE WARFARE - Extinction Protocol CD RUIN LUST - Sacrifice CD RUIN LUST - Ruin Lust CD TOWARDS HELLFIRE - Death Upon the Holy Throne CD UPON THE ALTAR - Absid ab Ordine Luminis CD UPON THE ALTAR - Descendants of Evil CD UPON THE ALTAR / DEATHEPOCH - Split CD VENEREAL BAPTISM - Deviant Castigation Liturgy CD VENEREAL BAPTISM - Reap the Reviled CD DEMOLITION HAMMER - Tortured Existence CD (slipcase) DEMOLITION HAMMER - Epidemic of Violence CD (slipcase) EGZEKUTHOR - Hateful Subconsciousness CD HOLY BATTALION - Cosmic War / Breaking the Face CD MERCILESS DEATH - Eternal Condemnation CD MORTALITY - Sweden´s Demons Attack 89-91 CD MORTIFERIS - Putrid Death CD NECROCHAKAL - Satanas Rebirth MCD NIFELHEIM - Nifelheim CD (digibook) NIFELHEIM - Devil´s Force CD (digibook) OBLIVEON - Fiction of Veracity CD OBLIVEON - From This Day Forward CD OBLIVEON - Nemesis CD OBLIVEON - Cybervoid CD ONSLAUGHT - Power from Hell CD ONSLAUGHT - The Force CD SACRILEGE - Behind the Realms of Madness + Bonus Tracks CD BLACK HEAVEN - Kharmic Wheel CD (digipak) DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY - Loučení se Světem Pozemským CD (digipak) LUCIAN THE WOLFBEARER - Old Roots CD (digipak) MERCURY CIRCLE - The Dawn of Vitriol CD (digipak) NEKKROFUKK - Don´t Be Tempted by the World of Shit... This Is the World of the Devil CD [2024-08-13] THAUMATURGY (U.S.A.) signed to Memento Mori!!! In our endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage Death Metal, we´re extremely thrilled to announce a new signing: THAUMATURGY, from U.S.A. THAUMATURGY was spawned in the Midwestern United States by an enigmatic musician that goes under the alias KT, driven by the urge to play a vicious blend of dark, doom-laden, chasmic and cavernous Death Metal, taking influence from a wide range of outsider music. THAUMATURGY attempt to push the boundaries beyond the genre´s forerunners in order to invoke contemplation upon the super-mundane realms that their name implies. Previously an outright Death/Doom Metal act with a darkened edge, the band has morphed into an entity whose musical offering is crammed with furious, ripping riffs, contrasted by crushing, echoing doom passages, as well as a surprising element of dark melody, evoking comparisons to the more diabolical early bands from Sweden, such as Necrophobic and Grotesque, although combining that approach with the tenebrosity and the murkiness of Incantation and Krypts, the violent and chaotic assault of Morbid Angel, the agressiveness of Dutch bands like Sinister and Pestilence, the modern approach of acts like Grave Miasma and Cruciamentum, and even the sheer lightlessness of bands such as Demoncy and Adversarial. Active since 2021, in which year the band released its debut EP, titled "Charnel Gnosis", THAUMATURGY has thus far released one full-length album in addition to the forementioned EP, ominously titled "Tenebrous Oblations". Now a power-trio after the addition of TG and DS to their ranks, we can only expect a further descent into despair when following the future development of this band. Memento Mori will unleash the CD version of their 2nd full-length in 2025. Further details to follow in the coming months. Meanwhile, make sure to check them out on Instagram and listen to their previous output (links below). Discography: "Charnel Gnosis" EP (2021) "Tenebrous Oblations" album (2023) Links: https://www.instagram.com/thaumaturgy_official https://thaumaturgy.bandcamp.com Next >>