[2022-08-18] RITUAL MASS - It Ever Turns CD!!! We´re stoked to announce that we´ll put out a compilation, titled "It Ever Turns", that will collect all the material spawned by the U.S. band RITUAL MASS 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 deathcrust 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 groovin´ and easygoing pure death metal." "It Ever Turns" is due out on October 24th, 2022. Memento Mori will unleash the CD version and Caligari Records will take care of the tape version. Further details to follow in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, check them out on Bandcamp (link below). Discography: "Ritual Mass" demo (2017) "Abhorred in the Eyes of God" EP (2019) "Descent/Sepulcher" Single (2021) Link: https://ritualmass.bandcamp.com [2022-08-11] PAINGIVER (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: PAINGIVER, from U.S.A. Founded in 2020 by the brothers Sam and Zach Bigby in Houston, Texas, PAINGIVER is a crushing new band that delivers all the grit of riff-centered, charnel and bone-shattering Death Metal with a textured and grimly dark approach, and a massive sound, influenced by Grave, Morbid Angel, Bloodbath, Incantation, Blood Red Throne, Bolt Thrower... Eldritch Death Metal domination! Memento Mori will unleash the CD version of their debut full-length in the first half of 2023. 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: "Deorum Mortis" EP (2020) Links: https://www.facebook.com/paingivertx https://paingiver.bandcamp.com [2022-08-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: ABOLITION RITUAL - Cosmonemesis CD (digipak) ANGEL DEATH - Memoirs of Death - The History 1986​-​1995​.​.​.​ 2021 CD APPARITION - Apparition MCD AZATOTH - Ruins of Humanity MCD BURIAL REMAINS - Spawn of Chaos CD CERCENATED FLESH - Crushing Corpses CD CONVULSIVE - The Grotesquery Ruins of Death CD CRYPTUM - Vile Emergence MCD DEIQUISITOR - Deiquisitor CD DEMIGOD - Unholy Domain / Promo 1992 MCD DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Compilation of Ancient Campaigns of Death MCD DISMEMBERED THORN - Rebelión y Pestilencia Negra MCD DODSKVAD - Kompendium - Krønike I & II CD ECTOVOID - Fractured in the Timeless Abyss CD ETERNAL PERDITION - Burnt Offerings MCD EXSUL - Allegoresis MCD (digipak) FLESHROT - Unburied Corpse CD FROM THE GRAVES - Rise of the Macabre CD (digipak) FROZEN SOUL - Crypt of Ice CD (digipak) FUNEBRE DEVASTATION - Vehement Doomination CD FUNERAL VOMIT - Funeral Vomit CD (digipak) GRACELESS - Shadowlands CD GRACELESS - Where Vultures Know Your Name CD HAALBUAER - Mortal Ones Scream in Horror MCD INERTH - Void CD INFECTED VIRULENCE - Music of Melkor / Infected Virulence CD INFIDEL REICH - New World Outrage CD INTERNAL SUFFERING - Awakening of the Rebel CD (digipak) JUST BEFORE DAWN - In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow MCD MALLEDICTION - Impaled of the Slammering CD MORBID ABOMINATION - Perceptional Decay CD (digipak) MORTIFY - Fragments at the Edge of Time CD (digipak) MOUFLON - Pure Filth CD NOGOTHULA - Gore Vortex Ascension MCD PAGANIZER - Promoting Total Death CD PAGANIZER - Massdeath Maniac CD ROTHEADS - Slither in Slime CD SEDIMENTUM - Suppuration Morphogénésiaque CD SHRIEKING DEMONS - Diabolical Regurgitations MCD VATICINAL RITES - Vaticinal Rites MCD (slimcase) VIDRES A LA SANG - Fragments de l´Esdevenir CD DEVILTOOK - Heretic Manifesto CD ERED - Curses from the Past CD GOATKRAFT - Barbaric Hatred and Doom CD HAUNTER - Thrinodia CD (digipak) INQUISITION - Black Mass for a Mass Grave CD LUCTUS - Užribis (digipak) NIGHTWALKER - Dark Sorcery / The Witches Sabbath CD (digipak) SARGEIST - Disciple of the Heinous Path CD (digipak) MANGLER - Dimensions of Terror CD POWER FROM HELL - The True Metal CD (digipak) SAVAGE GRACE - Master of Disguise CD SAVAGE GRACE - Ride into the Night + Demo 1983 CD SAVAGE GRACE - New York Tapes - Demo 1991 CD UNPURE - Northern Sea Madness - 1991-2021 - 30 Unpurified Years CD WITCHING HOUR - Where Pale Winds Take Them High CD ABYSMAL GRIEF - Funeral Cult of Personality CD (digipak) ANGUISH - Magna est vis Siugnah CD ANGUISH - Doomkvädet CD BLACK OATH - Emeth Truth and Death CD LUCIFER´S FALL - III: From the Deep CD [2022-07-25] OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!! ANCESTRAL - The Unforgotten Years 1993-1994 CD [MEMENTO-CXVII] A CD that compiles the two demos released by this old, obscure Canadian Death Metal band: "Ancestral" (1993) and "Forgotten Survivor" (1994). Ancestral was formed in the summer of 1991 in Montreal, QC, by two friends from high school, namely Marc-Antoine Papineau (drums) and Frédéric St-Marseille (guitar). At first, the two friends were just having fun jamming together, but the more time passed, the more their musical passion grew. They wanted to turn the band into a more serious project, therefore two other school friends joined the band, namely Martin Jetté (bass guitar) and Christian Pocetti (guitar). Shortly after, the lineup was completed with the addition of Daniel Collin (vocals). The band began to rehearse a few songs from other bands, and at the same time they started writing their own material. Being already greatly influenced by European acts such as Entombed, Pestilence and Dismember, but also keeping an eye out on certain U.S. influences (Suffocation among others), and already applying a rather technically sophisticated touch for young rookie musicians, they entered the studio to record their debut, eponymous demo, only a year after the band´s inception. From that moment on, the band gradually began to break into the local Death Metal scene, and shared the stage with acts such as Cryptopsy and Kataklysm, as well as some foreign bands such as Suffocation, Incantation and Macabre. A great friendship between the band members and those of Cryptopsy and Suffocation resulted from those shows, allowing Ancestral to find themselves performing alongside Cryptopsy and Suffocation very often. Keeping a lot of the same influences they displayed on their first demo, but adding the new touch of bands like Dark Tranquility and At The Gates, the band returned to the studio by the end of 1994 and recorded their second and last demo, titled "Forgotten Survivor". Ancestral split up in 1995 following the departure of Daniel Collin. SEDIMENTUM - Suppuration Morphogénésiaque CD [MEMENTO-CXVIII] The highly anticipated debut full-length by this Canadian band. Sedimentum was born in 2018 when a few friends who had been wanting to play filthy Death Metal for a little while, got together in the extreme coldness of Québec City. Theirs is an atavistic and gnarly form of Death Metal mainly influenced by old Finnish and English bands that strikes the listener as being straight up summoned inside unbounded, dreary catacombs from a long buried past. Pounding blastbeats, insufferable slow parts and weird Finnish riffs blend well together in their take on modern Death Metal. But make no mistake: Sedimentum ain´t just about cavernous ambience. They ain´t just about dank atmosphere: their music is filled to the brim with memorable, utterly heavy riffs that suck you in and spit you out into a vortex of putridity where all you can do is wallow in the sludge and gasp for air until your certain demise. After releasing a critically acclaimed demo in 2019 and a couple of split 7" EP´s, here comes the band´s debut on full-length format. "Suppuration Morphogénésiaque" dives headlong into a chunky blend of overdriven bass, gut-splitting guitars, skull-pummelling drums and absolutely gargantuan vocals. Befitted with a raw, uncompressed production that harkens back to when Death Metal terrified the masses with its violently unwelcoming sounds, this is not an album that faint-hearted trendies will like. This is pure unfiltered filth. As the glorious Brad Moore cover artwork aesthetically displays, the grotesque and malignant horrors on this album are vibrant and unforgettable, something the music lives up to and surpasses expectations with. Taking the gloom of some Death/Doom Metal but keeping the overall mood much more feisty and aggressive, there is bark and bite on this album while never being superficial about its actual feel. Everything seems too candid and urgent to be premeditated, with precision but also spontaneity, there is no holding back the beast that is Sedimentum now they have lurched and lumbered forth from whichever catacombs they dwelled within. You will be putrefied and you will love it. ROTHEADS - Slither in Slime CD [MEMENTO-CXIX] The long-awaited 2nd full-length by this Romanian band. This putrid ensemble was formed in Bucharest back in 2014 as an old-school Death Metal side-project to the experimental doom/noise/stoner-improv band Keeng Ra´at: both bands contained the same three members. By 2015, five songs were written, and recordings began in December of that year. Ultimately, six songs (plus intro and outro) came out in April 2016 as the "Unfazed by Death" demo, which turned out to be a remarkable, sick trip into the bowels of murky and foul-smelling Death Metal. In the meantime, another guitarist joined the band, and the original bassist left and rejoined later on. The original drummer and vocalist also left the band in August of that year, and another drummer then joined, while the vocals have been henceforth handled by the original guitarist. With that lineup thus set, Rotheads burst from the bowels of the ugliest underground with their aptly-fucking-titled debut album, "Sewer Fiends", for Memento Mori in 2018. Unyielding and unapologetic, Rotheads took their aggregate influences -particularly from the classic early 90´s Finnish scene (Convulse, Abhorrence/Amorphis, Sentenced, Demigod, Depravity), as well as other timeless crypt dwellers such as Autopsy, Gorement, Edge of Sanity, Accidental Suicide, Incubator and Asphyx- and proceeded to create a mesmerizingly murky and moody work with their debut album. The sewage was piled high and plentifully, and true diehards took notice. And still the sewers call! A four-way split with Vorus, Engrossed and Eruptive followed a year later, but the sewers of the soul that pollute Rotheads continued to pulse, patiently lying in wait for the right time to strike. And strike they do with their sophomore full-length, "Slither in Slime"! Another aptly-fucking-titled album, "Slither in Slime" immediately sounds like Rotheads, but something strange -something altogether unwholesome and even otherworldly- is at work here. While no doubt as crushing as ever, there´s a cool/calm/collected execution to the album that creates tension and unease, allowing those same foul and fetid riffs to wash over you with filthier effect, and something approaching "atmosphere" results. Patient? Yes, but the payoff is even grander, as a swirling creepiness seduces even the most closeminded death metaller. We could also say that "Slither in Slime" is catchy as fuck, but that should be apparent to anyone who dares to step into Rotheads´ newest sewer. Simply massive? You fucking bet! Graced with appropriately stark cover art courtesy of Mörtuus, and suitably tendrilous mastering courtesy of Ted Tringo, Rotheads have eclipsed the lofty standards set by their debut: you are hereby commanded to Slither in Slime! [2022-07-15] SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE!!! July 15th - August 15th The full list of specially-priced items (over 1800 of them!) and the terms of the sale are available at this location: https://rb.gy/yqvpti MAKE SURE TO READ THE TERMS CAREFULLY!!! Should anyone have any doubt or question, or find any trouble when trying to open/download the list + terms, don´t hesitate to get in touch. Happy hunting! << Prev Next >>