[2022-12-30] OBSCURIAL (Malaysia) 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: OBSCURIAL, from Malaysia. OBSCURIAL is one of the most promising, up and coming Death Metal bands from Asia, being spawned in the sewers of K-Hell (Kuala Lumpur) back in 2019 and breaking into the local underground scene with "Exaltation", their debut 2020 demo. "Funeral, Burial and Rites", the band´s opera prima in full-length format, was self-released in December 2021, helping them obtain more recognition and following in the underground Death Metal community. OBSCURIAL´s approach to timeless Death Metal includes gut-wrenching riffs, somber melodies and a dismal atmosphere influenced by the likes of Brain Dead, Grave Miasma, Morbid Angel, Bloodbath, Incantation, Dismember, Deicide, Grave and Darkthrone ("Soulside Journey" era). Memento Mori will unleash the CD version of their 2nd full-length in the first half of 2024. Further details to follow in the coming months. Meanwhile, make sure to give them a like on Facebook and listen to their previous output (links below). Discography: "Exaltation" demo (2020) "Gravedigger" single (2021) "Funeral, Burial and Rites" album (2021) Links: https://www.facebook.com/obscurialmusic https://obscurialmusic.bandcamp.com [2022-12-07] KRYPTICY (Spain) 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: KRYPTICY, from Spain. KRYPTICY was founded by main composer Alex Guerrero (vocals/guitar) in Málaga, back in 2013. The band´s debut EP, titled "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. The band, whose current lineup includes Pancho Vázquez (drums), Thomas Schenk (bass/backing vocals) and Sergio Álvarez (guitar), are already working on the sophomore full-length, where they aim to push the limits of their already consolidated sound, thus seeking an evolution towards a more unique personality, yet retaining the classic edge that always defined the band´s approach to the genre. Memento Mori will unleash the CD version of their sophomore full-length by late 2023. Further details to follow in the coming months. Meanwhile, make sure that you give them a like on Facebook and listen to their previous output (links below). Discography: "Necronomicon" EP (2014) "Hideous Being" album (2020) Links: https://www.facebook.com/Krypticy https://krypticy.bandcamp.com [2022-12-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: ANCIENT DEATH - Sacred Vessel MCD ANTICREATION - From the Dust of Embers CD (digipak) APOPLEXY Tears of the unborn / Dysmorphophobia CD APOPLEXY Monarchy of damned CD AZOTHYST - Blood of Dead God MCD (digipak) BELLY ERROR - The Body - Basic Demography CD BLASPHEMATORY - The Lower Catacombs CD BLOOD - Christbait CD BLOOD - O Agios Pethane CD (digipak) BRUTALITY - The Complete Demo Recordings 1987-1991 2CD BRUTALITY - Demo 2003 + Bonus Tracks CD CENOTAPH - The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows + EP´s / Demo 2CD CHEMICAL BREATH - Beyond Reality / Brutal Violation CD CHEMICAL BREATH - Fatal Exposure CD CINIS - Lies That Comfort Me CD CRUZ - Confines de la Cordura CD CRYPT OF KERBEROS - Cyclone of Insanity / Visions Beyond Darkness + Demos CD CRYPT OF KERBEROS - World of Myths CD (digipak) CRYPTIC HATRED - Nocturnal Sickness CD (digipak) DEAF & DUMB - Lipsygade Slegr CD DEATHLY SCYTHE - Celestial Darkness CD DETERIORATE - Rotting in Hell + Demos 2CD DISABLED - When All Is Slayed... 2CD DISMA - Earthendium MCD DYING FETUS - Killing on Adrenaline CD DYING FETUS - Destroy the Opposition CD ENCABULOS - Exhumed Abominations CD EPITAPH - Seeming Salvation (Original 1992 Sound Version) CD ERADICATE - Demise Towards the Dasein MCD ETERITUS - Rotten Transition CD EXCRUCIATE - Mutilation of the Past + Bonus Tracks CD FERUM - Asunder / Erode CD FESTERING - Compendium of the Horrific CD GRAVAVGRAV - Graveyard 2021 CD GRAVAVGRAV - Demo #3 MCD GRUESOME STUFF RELISH - Horror Rises from the Tomb CD HUMAN CORPSE ABUSE - Xenoviscerum MCD INCANTATION - Rotting Spiritual Embodiment CD INHUMATE - Abstract Suffering / Grind Your Soul CD INNER DARKNESS - Descent to Darkness CD INVERTED MATTER - Harbinger CD JUMPIN´ JESUS - The Art of Crucifying CD MELANCHOLY PESSIMISM - Shut up, Give up and Obey! CD MISERY - Revel in Blasphemy CD MISERY - Curses CD MISERY - On Demon Wings CD MORBID STENCH - The Rotting Ways of Doom CD MORGUE (France) - Lowest Depths of Misery CD MUCUPURULENT - Sicko Baby and More Babes CD NECROTUM - Undead Symbiosis CD NEOLITHIC - Shattering Vessels CD (digipak) NEUROTICOS - Hell Is Now CD NEURO-VISCERAL EXHUMATION - Gruesome Body Count CD OPHIDIAN MEMORY - The Stag CD OS - Tehom CD (digipak) PERPETUAL - Memento Mori CD POLLUTED INHERITANCE - Ecocide CD PULMONARY FIBROSIS - Pulmonologists CD PUTREFACTION SETS IN - Repugnant Inception of Decomposing Paroxysm CD REVELER / NECROTUM - Officium Mortuorum MCD RITUALIZATION - Hema Ignis Necros MCD SADISTIC - Rotting Eternal CD SARCOPHAGUM - Conduits to the Underworld MCD (digisleeve) SEWER FIEND - Echoes from the Cistern MCD SHUD - Rot in Pieces 2CD TERATOMA - Purulent Manifestations CD TERATOMA (Spain) - Chaosmakers CD TIWANAKU - Earth Base One CD TORTURE KILLER - Dead Inside MCD TOUGHNESS - The Prophetic Dawn CD UERBEROS - Stand Over Your Grave CD ULTHAR - Nightgaunts MMXVI CD (digipak) VENEFIXION - A Sigh from Below CD ABHOR - Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi) CD ANGRRSTH / CZORT - W Czeluść MCD CENOTAFIO - Larvae Tedeum Teratos CD DEPARTURE CHANDELIER - Dripping Papal Blood 3" MCD (slimcase) EMBRACE OF THORNS - The Pantheon I MCD (ecopak) EMBRACE OF THORNS - Entropy Dynamics CD MISANTHROPIC RAGE - Hallucinatory Phenomena CD MOONLIGHT SORCERY - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity MCD NECROLATRIA - Where Light Has No Domain CD PERSECUTORY - Summoning the Lawless Legions CD TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE - Pillars of Damnation CD UPON THE ALTAR / DEATHEPOCH - Split CD WEREGOAT / EGGS OF GOMORRH - Orgiastic Rape of Resurrected Remains CD ABSU - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. CD AFFLICTION - The Damnation of Humanization + Peace Through Violence CD AGGRESSOR - Procreate the Petrifactions / Demo 1991 CD ARCHAIC TORSE - Sneak Attack CD CULTO NEGRO - La Noche Oscura del Alma CD DESTRUCTION - The Butcher Strikes Back CD HADES - If at First You Don´t Succeed... + Demos 2CD HELLFUCK - Diabolic Slaughter CD MISERYCORE / UNHOLY FORCE - Unleashing Hell´s Rage CD PARADOX - Demo 86 - Deluxe Edition CD PARADOX - Mystery Demo 87 - Deluxe Edition CD SACRILEGE B.C. - Party with God CD SACRILEGE B.C. - Too Cool to Pray CD TORK RAN - Tales of Death 2CD IN GRIEF - An Eternity of Misery CD (digipak) [2022-11-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: ALTAR (Sweden) - Dark Domains CD ALTARS - Paramnesia CD ALTARS - Ascetic Reflection CD ANASARCA - Survival Mode CD ANTROPOMORPHIA - Necromantic Love Songs CD BAPHOMET - Death in the Beginning CD BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS - As Death, We Shall Walk CD BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS - Abomination of the Flames CD BLESSED SICKNESS - Massacre the Holy CD BLOOD RAGE - Welcome to Crimson Pines MCD BLOODY REDEMPTION - Hit to the Gore CD CARNAGE - Inevitable Deliverance CD CARNAGE - The Stench of Rotting Souls CD CATHARTIC - Ceremonial Resurrection MCD (digisleeve) CATHARTIC - Through the Abysmal Gates of Subconscious CD CEMETERY FILTH - Dominion CD CENTENARY - Death…The Final Frontier CD CONTINUUM OF XUL - Falling into Damnation MCD CRYPT OF KERBEROS - World of Myths CD (digipak) CRYPTOPSY - Cryptopsy CD CRYPTWORM - Spewing Mephitic Putridity CD (digipak) CULTIST - Manic Despair CD DEAD AND DRIPPING - Profane Verses of Murderous Rhetoric CD DEAD AND DRIPPING - Miasmic Eulogies Predicating an Eternal Nocturne CD DECAYING PURITY - Mass Extinction of the Providential Ones CD DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Compilation of Ancient Campaigns of Death MCD DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Satan Tottendemon Victory!!! CD (digipak) DOLDREY - Celestial Deconstruction CD ECHELON - Open Wide the Adamantine Gates CD ENCOFFINIZED - Chambers of Deprivation CD ESCARNIUM - Rex Verminorum CD (digisleeve) ESCARNIUM - Excruciating Existence CD (digisleeve) ESCARNIUM - Dysthymia CD (slipcase) ESKHATON - Omegalitheos CD ETERNAL DIRGE - Morbus Ascendit / Demos 1989​-​1990 2CD GATES OF ISHTAR - A Bloodred Path CD GATES OF ISHTAR - The Dawn of Flames CD (slipcase) GATES OF ISHTAR - At Dusk and Forever CD (slipcase) GOSUDAR - Morbid Despotic Ritual CD HEAVING EARTH - Diabolic Prophecies CD HEAVING EARTH - Darkness of God CD HUMAN COMPOST - Descendants of Evil CD ILLDISPOSED - Four Depressive Seasons CD IMMOLATION - Here in After CD IMMOLATION - Failures for Gods CD IMMOLATION - Close to a World Below CD IMPERATHRON - Mercy for the Despicable MCD INSISION - 15 Years of Exaggerated Torment 2CD INTESTINAL HEX - The Exalted Chambers of Abhorrence CD (digipak) INTESTINAL HEX / PUKEWRAITH - Split CD LACERATION - Demise CD LAST RETCH - Sadism and Severed Heads CD MASAKRE - Morbid Extinction MCD MEDICINE DEATH - Genetic Radioactive Experiments + Bonus Tracks CD MELEKTAUS - Transcendence Through Ethereal Scourge CD (digipak) MELEKTAUS - Self Knowledge Disintegrate the Veils CD (digipak) MERIDION - Rise from the South CD MISCREANCE - Convergence CD MOLDER - Vanished Cadavers CD MOLDER - Sonic Purulence CD MORTEM - Demon Tales CD MORTEM - The Devil Speaks in Tongues CD MORTEM - Demonolatry - Iter Tenebricosum ad Priscam Mortem 2CD NIHILO - Resolution CD (digipak) NUCLEUS - Entity CD OBLITERATION - Ingesting Death CD OBSCENITY - Perversion Mankind CD OBSCENITY - Retaliation CD PAGANIZER - Promoting Total Death CD PAGANIZER - Massdeath Maniac CD PAGANIZER - March of the Insane MCD PANDEMIC OUTBREAK - Skulls Beneath the Cross CD PERILAXE OCCLUSION - Exponential Decay MCD PERILAXE OCCLUSION / FUMES / CELESTIAL SANCTUARY / THORN - Absolute Convergence MCD PHANTASMAGORY - Odd Sounds CD PORTA DAEMONIUM - Serpent of Chaos CD PUTRESCENCE - Voiding upon the Pulverized CD PUTRICID - Suppuration CD REGNANT - Transvisceral CD REGREDIOR - Born in the Coffin CD ROTBORN - Genocidal Resolution MCD ROTBORN - On the Perspective of an Imminent Downfall CD ROTHADAS - Kopár Hant… Az Alvilág Felé CD SARCOMA - At One with the Dead CD SARKASM - Inner Flame + Incubated Mind CD SCORCHED - Echoes of Dismemberment CD SKELETAL EARTH - Eulogy for a Dying Fetus CD SKELETAL EARTH - Dē.ĕv´ṓ.lū´shŭn CD TRIBULATION - The Horror CD VOID ROT - Descending Pillars CD VOID ROT - Telluric Dismemberment MCD VOID WITCH - Void Witch MCD VRENTH / DEPRAVER - Split MCD VRENTH - Succumb to Chaos CD ZEALOTRY - The Last Witness CD (slipcase) ZEALOTRY - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds CD ALTARS ABLAZE - Life Desecration CD ANAAL NATHRAKH - The Whole of the Law CD ANAAL NATHRAKH - A New Kind of Horror CD BEHEMOTH - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) 2CD (digibook) BLAZE OF PERDITION - Conscious Darkness CD (digipak) BLAZE OF PERDITION - The Harrowing of Hearts CD (digipak) EXCRUCIATE 666 - Antic Warlord Supremacy CD (digipak) PROSANCTUS INFERI - Hypnotic Blood Art CD (digipak) THE BLACK DISORDER - The Acceptance of Humiliation CD ANACRUSIS - Suffering Hour CD (digipak) ANACRUSIS - Reason CD (digipak) ANACRUSIS - Manic Impressions CD (digipak) ANACRUSIS - Screams and Whispers CD (digipak) ANCESTHOR - Beneath the Mask CD BESIEGED - Violence Beyond All Reason CD BURIED GOD - Dark Revelation CD CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Animosity CD CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Technocracy CD DEATHSLAUGHTER - Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites CD (digipak) DESASTER - Hellfire´s Dominion CD (box set) DESASTER - Stormbringer MCD DISCIPLES OF POWER - Power Trap CD DISCIPLES OF POWER - Ominous Prophecy CD DISCIPLES OF POWER - Invincible Enemy CD (digipak) DISCIPLES OF POWER - Mechanikill CD (digipak) FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - Iron Tears / Metal Shock CD FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - Doomsday for the Deceiver CD (digipak) FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - No Place for Disgrace 2014 CD (digipak) JUGGERNAUT - Baptism Under Fire / Trouble Within 2CD (slipcase) KOBOLD - Masterpace CD KOBOLD - Technofascism CD MAYHEMIC - The Darkest Age CD NECRORIPPER - Amulepe Taiñ Weichan CD NEKROMANTHEON - We´re Rotting CD (digipak) NEKROMANTHEON - Divinity of Death CD (digipak) OBSOLETE - Animate//Isolate CD RAPTURE - Crimes Against Humanity CD RAPTURE - Total Madness Reigns MCD SCEPTER - I´m Going to Hell CD SIEGE OF POWER - Warning Blast CD (digipak) SOOTHSAYER - Troops of Hate CD SPECIES - To Find Deliverance CD V.A.R. - Personal Destruction CD VULTURE - Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves CD (digipak) APHOTIC SPECTRE - Væneration CD (slipcase) [2022-10-24] OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!! MORBIFIC - Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm CD [MEMENTO-CXX] The highly anticipated 2nd full-length by this Finnish band. Morbific is a rotten-to-the-core Death Metal trio deformed in the filthy and profaned boneyard of Kitee in early 2020, featuring Olli (guitar), Jusa (vocals/bass), and Onni (drums). The band´s "Pestilent Hordes" demo was unleashed in the summer of 2020, and it rapidly gained them some following amongst the finest gourmets of the variety of festering, moldering and disgusting Death Metal that´s malignantly influenced by Autopsy, Rottrevore, Deteriorot, Mortician, Grave, Maimed, Undergang, Impetigo, and ancient Finnish masters of death and decay such as Funebre and Disgrace. Shortly after, in the spring of 2021, the debut full-length "Ominous Seep of Putridity" saw the odious light of day to unanimous praise by both the fans and the media. Now, it´s time to ooze some more pus again and make the second abscess an even more sickening ordeal to experience than any other before: enter "Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm". All too perfectly titled, Morbific´s second album is a slimy, sludge-strewn landscape where barbaric stomp and cyclonic vortexes get blown the fuck out with an almost demo-level feel. However, lumber under no assumption that this is accidental, or the result of budgetary constraints, or some such other nonsense. No. Morbific gleefully want to punish the listener with an uncomfortable experience that´s fit only for the deadest of diehards. And yet, open thine ears to such sickness and one will find that "Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm" is even stranger and more unsettling than its absurdly raw aspect suggests; the riffs themselves here sound wrong, the bass sounds like nuclear fallout, and the perversely spacious mix allows supernatural horror to creep in as these sounds clash and slash the listener. Which is to say nothing of the wandering, tension-heightening songwriting itself... To restate the should-be-obvious, this is not trendy "Death Metal" for the masses! Peer deeply into the grim and grimy cover art courtesy of Chase Slaker, and perhaps you´ll begin to understand what awaits within Morbific´s "Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm". The first step into it will be your last... FALL OF SERAPHS - From Dust to Creation CD [MEMENTO-CXXI] The impressive debut full-length by this French band. Fall Of Seraphs was summoned in the Bordeaux area, back in 2014, and is comprised of a bunch of active musicians who also play or played in underground acts such as ADX, Manzer, Ossuaire, Simulacre, Ad Patres, Reverence and Quintessence, among many others. In 2017 came the band´s debut EP, "Destroyer of Worlds", followed by a split with their old pals in Trepanator, titled "Incarnation of Torture", released the following year. With those two teasing short-lengths as a foundation, Fall Of Seraphs now bloom into the titan they´ve but hinted at with their imminent debut album, "From Dust to Creation". As before, Fall Of Seraphs´ brand of Death Metal is proudly anchored in the tradition of yore, relying on heaviness, malignancy and non-excessive technicality, shrouded in total and almost palpable blackness, and displaying a remarkable sense of vitality and dynamism that always keeps the listener busy and wondering what´s coming next in their (apparently) everlasting feast of headbang-inducing riffs and sharp-yet-beautifully executed leads. However, where the band break out is the bustling flow in which they dole out their death metalled ruminations. Yes, keenly note flow: for however busy some of these seven compositions seem on the surface, there´s a graceful movement almost at odds with their ultraviolence. Credit that to Fall Of Seraphs´ enviable chops, both as songwriters and especially as musicians; dazzling and dexterous they may be, but they keep it all all-caps Death Metal for the entire 30-minute duration. And the solos: "From Dust to Creation" poignantly proves that this isn´t a lost art in Death Metal after all! "Sublime" or at least "tasteful" are two ways to describe that soloing, but "fucking awesome" might be the most apt! As such, Fall Of Seraphs come highly recommended to maniacs of classic Morbid Angel, Deicide, Vader, Immolation, Krabathor and Angelcorpse. Graced with fittingly cataclysmic cover art courtesy of Erskine Designs, "From Dust to Creation" is a literally massive first full-length bound to create all-devouring waves! RITUAL MASS - It Ever Turns CD [MEMENTO-CXXII] A CD that compiles all the material spawned by this U.S. band so far, all of which was previously never available on CD format: "Ritual Mass" demo (2017), "Abhorred in the Eyes of God" EP (2019) and "Descent/Sepulcher" single (2021). There is no better description of their aural assault than the words used by our friends at Grizzly Butts when they reviewed the band´s 2019 EP: if you´ve ever picked up the early Master tapes where they´ve mixed in the non-triggered drum takes and imagined what those thrashing, punkish Axegrinder-esque chunks might sound like reborn by way of a more perfectionism-bound group (i.e. Tomb Mold) then ratcheted up to ridiculous body-in-the-trunk heaviness (i.e. Coffins) you´ll understand why Ritual Mass are an instant thumbs up from my perspective. They´re not a Death/Crust band, but they could hang with ´em, they´re not a "caveman" thug merch-meme Death Metal band (but they could hang with ´em), and it seems the angle these guys are aiming for is a solid enough mix of simple grooving and easygoing pure Death Metal. "It Ever Turns" is a superb slab of primal, pustulent Death Metal. No tech, no progression, no normal blastbeats, no real "solos", no progression, no goofy merch: just utter devastation, tonal rape, crushing filth, ignorant stomp, and overwhelming intensity. It´s Death Metal done with a dangerous zeal that´s blanching to behold. << Prev Next >>