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[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

[2024-08-01]
DISTRO UPDATE!!!
This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month:

ABRAMELIN - Never Enough Snuff CD (slipcase)
ANTAGONYZE - Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness CD
BANISHED - Deliver Me unto Pain CD
CANDARIAN - Stagnant Livor Mortis MCD
CARDIAC ARREST - ...In Rotten Retrospect CD
CHTHON - Eremite CD
DEAD INFECTION - Corpses of the Universe CD (digipak)
DEGRAVED - Whisper Morbidity & Exhumed Remnants CD
DESECATION - Left to the Trogs CD
DESPISED - Scorched Earth CD
ENCOFFINATION - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh CD
ENCOFFINATION - III - Hear Me, O´ Death CD
ENCOFFINATION / ROTTING KINGDOM - Wretched Enigma of Salvation CD
ENTRAILS - An Eternal Time of Decay CD (slipcase)
EXTERMINATED - The Genesis of Genocide CD
EXTERMINATED - Sphere of Catastrophism CD
FLESHMANGLED - Agonizing Paranoia MCD
FUMES OF DECAY - Ominous CD
GUTS - Decay CD
HENRY KANE - Circle of Pain CD
HORRIFIC VISIONS - Enlightenment Through Excruciating Torture MCD
HYPOXIA - Abhorrent Disease CD
HYPOXIA - Defiance CD
INTOLERANCE - Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void CD
KRAANIUM - Hammering Compiled Brutality CD
KRYPTICY - The Non-Return CD
MORBUS GRAVE - Feasting the Macabre CD
MORTAL WAYS - Mortal Ways CD
MORTAL WAYS - Enslavement Pandemic MCD
NAILS OF THE CROSS - Ciclo de la Muerte CD
NOROTH - It Dwells Amongst Us CD
NOXIS - Violence Inherent in the System CD
PHLEBOTOMIZED - Clouds of Confusion CD (digipak)
RESILIENT - The Art of Resilience CD
SABBATIC FEAST - Reopen the Womb CD
SKINLESS - Gut Pumping Hits - The Demos CD (digisleeve)
SKINLESS / DEHUMANIZED - New York Death Metal CD
SUBCONSCIOUS TERROR - Chaotic Diffusion CD
UNCREATION - The Creation of Uncreation CD
UNHOLY BEHEADING - In The Name of Your Fucking God CD
WHARFLURCH - Shittier / Slimier CD
WITCHBONES - Goety CD
WITCHBONES - Akasha 2: The Lost Demos MCD
WITCHBONES - Akasha 3: Salt, Sea, Blood and Fire MCD
WORM ALTAR - Worm Altar CD
XOTH - Exogalactic CD
DISSECTION - The Past Is Alive (The Early Mischief) CD (digipak)
GRIEFSPELL - Enchantments of Dark Eternity CD
LORD BELIAL - Rapture CD (slipcase)
BLIND ILLUSION - The Sane Asylum CD (slipcase)
SACRODEATH - Camino a la Tortura MCD
SACRODEATH - Engendro del Caos CD
SARCASTIC OBEDIENCE - Fading Faith CD
TENEBROSIDAD - Cruel Juego de la Conciencia CD
THRASHAGRESION - Morbida Realidad CD
HABITANTE - Condena Funebre CD
ISOLE - Anesidora CD (digipak)

[2024-07-22]
OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!!
INTOLERANCE - Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void CD [MEMENTO-CXXXIX]
The impressive 2nd full-length by this Spanish band. The Death Metal mongrels collectively known as Intolerance hail from Zaragoza, the same city that Ataraxy are natives of. Spawned back in 2015, this quartets intent is to pay homage to timeless Death Metal and the fetid stench that exuded from the malicious tones of the bands that populated the scene and helped define the genre back in the late 80s and the early 90s. Nothing fancy or wimpy here: only demise and putrefaction to be found when you creep in Intolerances mortuary. After a demo in 2016 and an EP in 2020, Intolerance made good on their massive potential in 2022 with the celebrated debut album "Dark Paths of Humanity". Aligned again with Memento Mori, the Spaniards continue to honor the old ways of Death Metal whilst adding their own gutted and grimy personality to it with the follow-up, "Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void". If their debut album was in the wheelhouse of 1991, then Intolerances second album is perhaps time-stamped 1992 or even 1993. Which is to stay, while their noble foundation is as firm as ever -classic Bolt Thrower, Grave, Asphyx, Morgoth, Entombed, Convulse, Obituary and Unleashed- theres daresay a bit more groove or at least swagger to their streamlined surge here. Whereas those Dark Paths crushed bones underneath tank treads, these Waking Nightmares gallop and grind with a catchiness that cannot be denied. Granted, Intolerance were subtly nuanced and surprisingly dynamic already, but the ever-darker hues and almost-evil melodicism they touch upon here puts them closer to the likes of classic Unanimated, Dismember, Hypocrisy, Desultory and earliest Necrophobic. Still a Death Metal record for Death Metal maniacs, by Death Metal maniacs, but somewhere a crucifix is being turned upside down! Once again graced with haunting cover art, this time courtesy of Juan Alberto Hernandez, and yet another devastating production, Intolerance continue their masterful march with "Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void" and find themselves in the embrace of evil!

MORBUS GRAVE - Feasting the Macabre CD [MEMENTO-CXL]
The vitriolic 2nd full-length by this Italian band. Morbus Grave was spawned by A. Th and Erman in 2010 with the goal to exhume rotting, ancient Death Metal influenced by primordial bands such as Death, Possessed, Carnage, Sadistic Intent, Incubus, Malevolent Creation, Celtic Frost, Morbid Angel and Slayer. Due to lack of time, A. Th left the band and Erman was left to continue the path by himself. In early 2015, Erman found the right replacement in Maso on guitars/bass and Pide Guts on drums. This lineup recorded the bands debut demo, "Throne of Disgust ", which was released in early 2016. Although the lineup was completed with Eros and Edy later in the year, the band seemed to vanish in thin air. After a couple of years of lethargy and many a lineup change, the grave was dug up once again and the band put out some more minor releases on a number of estimable undeground labels over the years, steadily getting their craft honed in preparation for their debut full-length, which was ultimately released in 2021. Now a five-headed abomination consisting of Erman (vocals), Edy (guitar), Magiko (guitar), Danny (drums) and Eros (bass), Morbus Grave bring forth their second deadly strike, titled "Feasting the Macabre", once again centered around ex-thrasher riffing and morbid concepts. With this second album, Morbus Grave honed in on the sinister dread and olden atmosphere of underground Death Metal and lent a sickening level of performance to it thatll most certainly impress fans of deep-rooted underground classics.

KRYPTICY - The Non-Return CD [MEMENTO-CXLI]
The ravaging 2nd full-length by this Spanish band. Krypticy was founded by main composer Alex Guerrero (vocals/guitar) in Malaga, Spain, back in 2013. The bands debut EP, "Necronomicon", captured their fondness for old school Death Metal, most specially of the Floridian kind (Morbid Angel, Obituary, Death, Cancer). By the time they released their debut full-length, "Hideous Being", a few years later, the band was already exhibiting a larger range of influences (Suffocation, Malevolent Creation, Deicide, Decapitated) and had begun to play live, sharing the stage with bands such as Lapidated, Avulsed, Wormed, Aposento and Necrophiliac, among others. With the band solidifying their lineup by the end of 2022 -Guerrero alongside Pancho Vazquez (drums), Thomas Schenk (bass/backing vocals) and Sergio Alvarez (guitar)- Krypticy now deliver their sophomore full-length, bearing the ominous title "The Non-Return". As forecasted by its stark cover artwork (courtesy of Cardaver Art) and cryptic nomenclature, "The Non-Return" sees Krypticy aiming to push the limits their already consolidated sound. Undoubtedly still tried and true Death Metal, theres nevertheless a strive for something more spiritual here, as the quartet seek an evolution towards a more unique personality whilst retaining the classic edge that always defined Krypticys approach to the genre. Mind you, this isnt doublespeak for going all-out "prog" or leaving behind Death Metal altogether (and still calling it such); rather, the band have begun to more fluently speak different dialects within the same language, producing a multilingual approach that can only but strengthen the sum effect. So, while the traditional tropes of late 80s thrashing and early 90s grinding are well and accounted for, theres a markedly angular aspect to Krypticys songwriting on "The Non-Return", which works up a fever and fury when riffs and riffs and more riffs attack, one mercilessly after the other, the rhythm section surging and staying linear and ultimately producing a memorability that easily evades verse/chorus structures. So, for those who willingly have their minds warped by such unfussy sleepers as Suffocations "Pierced from Within", Malevolent Creations "Stillborn" and Decapitateds "The Negation", prepare to arrive at your destination with "The Non-Return"!

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