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[2023-06-10]
SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE!!!
June 10th - June 30th

The full list of specially-priced items (over 1800 of them!) and the terms of the sale are available at this location: https://acortar.link/0p6DMK

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ THE TERMS CAREFULLY!

Should anyone have any doubt or question, or find any trouble when trying to open/download the list + terms, donīt hesitate to get in touch.

Happy hunting!

[2023-06-05]
ECOCIDE (The Netherlands) signed to Memento Mori!!!
In our endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage Death Metal, weīre extremely thrilled to announce a new signing: ECOCIDE, from The Netherlands.

ECOCIDE was formed in Haarlem by Sten Govers, Bas Gijzen and Rick Stikkelorum back in 2012, with Dennis Bikker joining in 2014. Their self-titled 2012 demo was basically Thrash Metal with a pinch of Death Metal thrown in for good measure and lyrical themes based on H.P. Lovecraft, 80īs horror and sci-fi movies. Their 2013 debut album, titled "Eye of Wicked Sight", saw the band shift their initial Thrash Metal sound into old school Death Metal, taking the Floridian brand of Death, Obituary and Massacre, adding some Swedish inspiration in the vein of Entombed, Grave and Unleashed, pouring some Bolt Thrower heaviness, some Pestilence greatness, and throwing in an additional touch of Thrash Metal ā la Slayer for a real homage to the golden days of yore, when Death Metal was memorable and riff-oriented to the hilt. The release of the album quickly attracted a bigger, international following and the band started playing dozens of shows within and around the Netherlands. During these shows they shared the stage with bands like Malevolent Creation, Sinister, Gorguts and the legendary Bolt Thrower. After two lineup changes the band called it quits in 2015, returning briefly in 2017 to release a single titled "The Godhand", and then again in 2020 to release another single, titled "Sleeper". After releasing those two songs, the band remained dormant until 2023, when they announced their comeback and started working for the second full-length album.

Memento Mori will unleash the CD version of their sophomore full-length on October 23rd, 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:
"Ecocide" demo (2012)
"Eye of Wicked Sight" album (2013)
"When the Stars Align" single (2015)
"The Godhand" single (2017)
"Sleeper" single (2020)

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/EcocideMetal
https://ecocide-osdm.bandcamp.com

[2023-06-01]
DISTRO UPDATE!!!
This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month:

ABOLISH - ...From the Depths CD
ABRADED - Unadulterated Perversity CD
ALTARS - Paramnesia CD
ALTARS - Ascetic Reflection CD
APHOTIC - Abyssgazer CD (digipak)
APOTEMNOPHOBIA - Putrid Passages from Cadaveric Tales CD
ASSUMPTION - Hadean Tides CD
ASTRIFEROUS - Pulsations from the Black Orb CD
ATAVISMA / VOID ROT - Split CD
AUTHORIZE - The Source of Dominion + Bonus Tracks CD
BASTARD GRAVE - Vortex of Disgust CD
BLAZING TOMB - Blazing Tomb MCD
BURIAL - Inner Gateways to the Slumbering Equilibrium at the Center of Cosmos CD
CENOTAPH - The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows + EPīs / Demo 2CD
CEREBRAL ROT - Odious Descent into Decay CD
CEREBRAL ROT - Excretion of Mortality CD
COHORT - Drawn and Quartered / Near Death Experience CD
CORRUPTER - Descent into Madness CD
CRUCIFORM - Atavism / Paradox CD
CRYPT OF KERBEROS - Cyclone of Insanity / Visions Beyond Darkness + Demos CD
CRYPT OF KERBEROS - World of Myths CD (digipak)
CRYPTIC BROOD - Outcome of Obnoxious Science CD
CRYPTWORM - Spewing Mephitic Putridity CD (digipak)
DARK - Sex īnī Death + Zlá Krev 2CD
DEAD CHASM - Sublimis Ignotum Omni CD
DETERIORATE - Rotting in Hell + Demos 2CD
ENCABULOS - Exhumed Abominations CD
EPITAPH - Seeming Salvation (Original 1992 Sound Version) CD
ETERNAL ROT - Cadaverine CD
ETERNAL ROT - Putridarium CD
ETERNAL ROT / COFFINS - Split CD
EXCRUCIATE - Mutilation of the Past + Bonus Tracks CD
EXTERMINATION ORDER - The Siege of Ascalon MCD
FESTERDECAY - Reality Rotten to the Core CD
FETID - Steeping Corporeal Mess CD
GALVANIZER - Prying Sight of Imperception CD
GOSUDAR - Morbid Despotic Ritual CD
GOSUDAR / MALIGNANT ALTAR - Split CD
GROTESQUERIES - Haunted Mausoleum MCD
IMMORTALIS - Indicium de Mortuis + Demos 2CD
INFESTER - Darkness Unveiled CD
JADE - The Pacification of Death CD
KAAL AKUMA - In the Mouth of Madness CD
KAAL AKUMA - Turiya MCD
LACERATION - Demise CD
MAZE OF SOTHOTH - Extirpated Light CD
MOLESTED - Stormvold + Demos CD
MORBIFIC - Ominous Seed of Putridity CD
MORGUED - Terrorformed MCD
MORTIFERUM - Preserved in Torment CD (slipcase)
MVLTIFISSION - Decomposition in the Painful Metamorphosis CD
NOTHINGNESS - Supraliminal CD
OCCULSED - Crepitation of Phlegethon CD
OCCULSED - Parturition of Adulteration CD
PIGīS BLOOD - Pigīs Blood CD
PIGīS BLOOD - Command More Blood MCD
PISSROT - Piss.Vile.Gunk MCD
PSYCHIC PAWN - Eulogy: The Complete Anthology 2CD
PUTRID YELL - Consuming Aberration CD
REVEL IN FLESH - Relics of the Deathkult CD (slipcase)
REVEL IN FLESH - The Hour of the Avenger CD
ROTPIT - Let There Be Rot CD
ROTTING KINGDOM - A Deeper Shade of Sorrow CD
SACRATUS - Where the Sounds Were Corrupted CD
SNET - Mokvání v Okovech CD
SONIC POISON - Eruption CD
SPEGLAS - Time, Futility & Death MCD
TOMB MOLD - The Bottomless Perdition + The Moulting CD
TOMB MOLD - Manor of Infinite Forms CD (slipcase)
VOID ROT - Descending Pillars CD
VOID ROT - Telluric Dismemberment MCD
VOMITROT - Rotten Vomit CD
VRENTH - Baptism Death CD
VRENTH - Succumb to Chaos CD
WORM - Foreverglade CD
WRITHING - Of Earth & Flesh CD
BARBARIC HORDE - Barbaric Hammer Fist CD
BARBARIC HORDE - Perpetrators of Impurity CD
DEATHSIEGE - Throne of Heresy CD
MYTHOS - Moulded in Clay MCD
ABSU - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. CD
ABSU - The Third Storm of Cythraul CD
DAMNABILITY - Liability to Damnation: Demos ī88-ī90 CD
FATAL SIN - Episodes: The Complete Recordings CD + DVD
INSEMINATOR - Septennium Blasphemiae (2002-2009) CD
JUDGEMENT - The Final Decree: 1989-1992 CD
LURCH KILLZ - Requiem: The Demo Anthology CD
RECKLESS ABANDON - The Complete Recordings: ī90-ī92 CD
TORR - Armageddon + 2 CD
TORR - Institut Klinické Smrti CD
FOR CENTURIES - Before the Eyes of Doom (Per Sæcula Sæculorum) CD

[2023-05-01]
DISTRO UPDATE!!!
This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month:

ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE - Dead Erotica CD
ADRAMELECH - Recoveries of the Fallen CD
ADRAMELECH - Psychostasia CD
ALTAR / CARTILAGE - Split CD
ASPHYX - Asphyx CD
ASPHYX - On the Wings of Inferno CD
AUROCH - Mute Books CD
AVERNAL - Avernal CD
BAPHOMET - Baphomet / Boiled in Blood MCD (digipak)
BLEMISH - The Forsaken Hope... CD
BLOODFIEND - Under the Evil Command + Bonus CD
BLOODFIEND - Creature of the Catacombs CD
BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID - Expelled into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable CD
CADAVERIC CREMATORIUM - Zombology CD (digipak)
CANCERBERO - Reconquering the Throne of Death CD
CANCERBERO / ALTAR OF BLOOD - Unholy Congregation of Horrors MCD
CATACOMB - When the Stars Are Right CD
CAVERNUM - Born in a Cave CD
CENOTAPH / DAMNED CROSS - Reek from the Grave (Dark Hymns from the Past) CD
CENTINEX - Malleus Maleficarum CD (slipcase)
CENTINEX - Reborn Through Flames CD
COFFINBORN - Cadaveric Retribution CD
CREMATORY - The Exordium MCD (digipak)
CRYPTOPSY - Ungentle Exhumation MCD (digipak)
DEADLY DARK - Rotting in Grave CD
DEMIGOD - Slumber of Sullen Eyes CD
DEMILICH - Nespithe CD
DEMOTED - Away from the Living CD
DEMOTED - Bounded to a Mortal Life MCD
DETERIOROT - Manifested Apparitions of Unholy Spirits MCD (digipak)
DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Compilation of Ancient Campaigns of Death MCD
DIABOLICAL MESSIAH - Satanic Alpha-Omega CD
DISFIGUREMENT - Black Beyond Impurity CD
DISSECT - Presage to the Eternity MCD (digipak)
DYING FETUS - Killing on Adrenaline CD
ETERNAL DARKNESS - Ceremony of Doom MCD (digipak)
ETERNAL REST - Prophetic CD
ETERNAL REST - The Picture of Hatred CD
FLESHCRAWL - Festering Flesh MCD (digipak)
FUNERAL VOMIT - Necrophoric Infestation MCD
FUNERAL VOMIT - Funeral Vomit CD (digipak)
FUNERAL VOMIT / HERETIC RITUAL - Chants of Morbid Excruciation CD
GODDEFIED - Inhumation of Shreds (Complete Recordings 1991-2009) CD
GRISLY - Salting the Earth CD
GRISLY - Tomb King CD
IMPETIGO - Giallo MCD (digipak)
IMPETIGO - Ultimo mondo cannibale CD
INSECT INSIDE - The First Shining of New Genus CD
INTO COFFIN / CENOTAFIO - Astral Sacrifice CD
JUDECCA - Awakened by an Eternal Death and Beyond CD
KRAANIUM - No Respect for the Dead CD
LAVATORY - Morbid Terror CD (super jewel)
LAVATORY / REPUTDEATH - Reanimation of Embalmed Necrohorrors CD
MACABRE END - Consumed by Darkness MCD (digipak)
MALEVOLENT CREATION - The Demos 2CD
MASACRE - Sacro CD
MORBICUS - Forsaken in Sadistic Torment from Hell CD
MORTE - Lento Descenso a la Putrefacción + Bonus CD
MORTE - Miasma CD
MORTEM - Demon Tales CD
MORTEM - The Devil Speaks in Tongues CD
MORTEM - Demonolatry - Iter Tenebricosum ad Priscam Mortem 2CD
MORTICIAN - Demo #1 ī90 MCD (digipak)
MORTUARY - Blackened Images / Where Death Takes Your Soul CD
MUSMAHHU - Reign of the Odious CD
NECROPHILIAC - Chaopula - Citadel of Mirrors CD
NECROTUM - Condemned to Burn CD
OBTRUNCATION - Sanctum Disruption, Sphere of the Rotting CD
OBTRUNCATION - The Callous Concept CD
OPPRESSOR - Solstice of Oppression CD
PAROXYSMAL BUTCHERING - Supreme Revulsion CD
PHANTASMAGORE / FLESHROT - Twisted Visions of Abominations MCD
POLLUTED INHERITANCE - Ecocide CD
POLLUTED INHERITANCE - Betrayed CD
PURTENANCE - Member of Immortal Damnation CD
PUSTILENCE - Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers CD
PUTRED / ERUPTIVE - Scabrously Excarnated MCD (clear disc)
PUTRED / CERTAIN DEMISE - Eastern Malignant Morbidity CD
RīLYEH - Back to the Cult CD
RīLYEH - Ritual of Darkness CD
REPTILIAN - Perennial Void Traverse CD
REVOLTING - Dreadful Pleasures CD
REVOLTING - Born to Be Dead CD
ROTTREVORE - Iniquitous CD
SARKASM - Inner Flame + Incubated Mind CD
SARKASM - As Empires Decay CD
SEPSISM - Purulent Decomposition CD
SINISTER - Perpetual Damnation MCD (digipak)
THE CHASM - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow CD
TORN THE FUCK APART - A Genetic Predisposition to Violence CD (digipak)
TRAUMATOMY - Extirpation Paradigms CD
TRIBE OF PAZUZU - Blasphemous Prophecies CD
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN - Teufelsbücher CD (digipak)
UTUMNO - Across the Horizon CD
VALGRIND - Millennium of Night Bliss CD
VIBRION - Diseased / Instinct CD
VIBRION - Closed Frontiers / Erradicated Life CD
VOMIT - Invoker of the Past CD
VOMIT - Desecrated Souls CD
AUTUMNFALL - Ghosts of Light CD (digipak)
AUTUMNFALL - Bleak CD (digipak)
BESTIA ARCANA - To Anabainon ek tes Abyssu CD (digipak)
CALIGULA - Decade of Lust, Heresy and Blasphemy CD
CULT OF EIBON / CEREMONIAL TORTURE - Necronomical Mirror Divination CD
FALL OF THE LEAFE - Evanescent, Everfading CD (digipak)
SADOMORTUARY - Consecrated in Rot & Blasphemy CD
SPERMOGOAT / ORDER OF DOOM / NEKRONUCLEAR COMMAND - War Communion of Perversion CD
TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE - Pillars of Damnation CD
THOU ART LORD - Orgia Daemonicum CD (digipak)
VARATHRON - Walpurgisnacht CD
VARATHRON - The Lament of Gods CD
VARATHRON - Crowsreign CD (digipak)
VARATHRON - Genesis of the Unaltered Evil CD
VARATHRON - Patriarchs of Evil CD (digipak)
A.R.G. - Entrance CD
A.R.G. - One World Without the End CD
ANIALATOR - Mission of Death CD
CHAINSAW SLAUGHTER - The Monks of the Black Circle CD
COMBAT SHOCK - Everything Goes Wrong CD
CREMATION PYRE - Cremation Pyre MCD (slipcase)
DESPAIR - Decay of Humanity CD
DROID - Terrestrial Mutations CD
EXTINCTION - Cryogenesis CD (digipak)
KRYPTONOMICON - Nekromantikos CD (digipak)
KRYPTONOMICON - Infernalia CD (digipak)
STONE - Stone CD
STONE - No Anesthesia! CD
TORMENTOR (Mexico) - Beholding the Endless Pestilence CD
UNHOLY FORCE - Embrace the Unholy Death CD
ZOETROPE - A Life of Crime CD
ALBEZ DUZ - Enigmatic Rites CD (slipcase)
ARS ONIRICA - II: Lost CD (digipak)
BLACK OATH - Behold the Abyss CD (slipcase)
COUNTING HOURS - The Will CD (digipak)
IMMERSED - Descending CD (digipak)
MOURNUMENT - Smouldering into Dust CD (digipak)
SATURNALIA TEMPLE - Gravity CD
STRUCTURE - Structure CD (digipak)

[2023-04-24]
OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!!
PUSTILENCE - Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers CD [MEMENTO-CXXV]
The stunning debut full-length by this Australian band. Hailing from Brisbane, Pustilence formed in late 2018 and soon became a three-headed vermin that proudly brought forward mind-warping Death Metal madness of a most mid-90īs vintage. The bandīs first public recording, 2020īs "The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End" EP, was a short and sweet 15-minute vortex of melted leads, impossible tempo changes and truly putrid vocals. The EP suitably received various pressings by various labels, and showed Pustilence as worthy successors to the cult likes of Oppressor, Morta Skuld, Gutted and Psychic Pawn. Still, the best was yet to come, and now it arrives with their long-awaited full-length: "Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers". With their lineup now expanded to a quartet, Pustilence proceed to obliterate past, present and future. While bearing the same sturdy template as the preceding EP, Pustilenceīs debut album explodes and expands in every direction: leads are even more melted and madness-inducing, the tempo changes are crazier and more slamming, the vocals gurgle with supernatural clarity, and their songwriting on the whole bristles with an excitement and electricity thatīs rare these days. Granted, itīs staunchly and unapologetically Death Metal -and those very same cult names are still invoked- but Pustilence put just the right amount of uniqueness to their dread creations that makes the whole 11-song/46-minute work plausible and reverential. Furthermore, the band fully flesh out their fantastical and obscured lyrical themes, bringing form and content together with alchemical ease. Which is to say nothing of the absolutely amazing production here: crushing yet clear, each instrument rendered in 3D tones but never sacrificing the inherent rawness of true human performance. No typewriter or popcorn bullshit here: just classic, effortlessly old school Death Metal that adds to the glorious tradition rather than lazily picks at its bones. From caveman breakdowns to rude angularity, haunting half-melodies to blunt force trauma, Pustilence prepare to take the Death Metal underground by literal storm with "Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers".

VALGRIND - Millennium of Night Bliss CD [MEMENTO-CXXVI]
The highly anticipated 5th full-length by this Italian band. By now, those who follow our dark deeds should be well familiar with Valgrind. Despite forming all the way back in 1996 and releasing three demos and an EP before going on hiatus in 2002, it was the 2012 debut album, "Morning Will Come No More" where Valgrind kicked off their activities... and thereīs been no looking back. With steadfast dependability and ever-so-slight "progression" each time, these Italians have quietly become stalwarts of classics-minded Death Metal that isnīt completely blinkered by the past. Yes, their influences largely remain the same -foundational Morbid Angel, Pestilence, Death, Nocturnus, Possessed, Monstrosity and Immolation- but Valgrind have increasingly sought their own muse, becoming more personal in lyrical approach whilst keeping their attack trend-free Death Metal. But if 2020īs Memento Mori-released "Condemnation" signaled a sea-change for Valgrind -an undeniably "something", a never-belabored uniqueness, despite mostly still sounding like the same band- then they certainly continue this sterling development with "Millennium of Night Bliss". Indeed, thereīs an eerie aura and a more supernatural lyrical bent that fuel Valgrindīs fifth album, and the power-trio duly whip forth a vortex of dark and dazzling technicality and jaw-dropping chops. Everywhere you turn across the nine-song/38-minute work, thereīs some slipstreaming portal opening up into another into another ad infinitum; one could say "Millennium of Night Bliss" isnīt so much a "complex" record (although it is) as itīs one of rippling darkness and dementia. Truly, Valgrind sound mental here, as the blazing angularity and "tunefully atonal" intensity hearken to such once-slept-on classics as Immolationīs "Here in After" and Morbid Angelīs "Formulas Fatal to the Flesh". However, the Italians still continue to exert their own identity, adding just the right amount of melody and making the remarkably crisp and clean production work entirely for them. Could "Millennium of Night Bliss" be Valgrindīs best record yet? Put in the work and lose thyself in its labyrinths, and surely will you see the night-blissful truth!

GODDEFIED - Inhumation of Shreds (Complete Recordings 1991-2009) CD [MEMENTO-XXXV]
Repress of this OOP and sought-after Memento Mori compilation CD, originally released in 2014. Sunlight Studio. Tomas Skogsberg. Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal. You just canīt go wrong with those premises when it comes to old school Swedish Death Metal. And thatīs exactly what youīll get from Goddefied, an obscure yet legendary act hailing from the small city of Karlskoga, in the province of Värmland, about 200 Km away from Stockholm. Formed back in 1990 under the monicker Enshrined, Goddefied, along with God Macabre, Wombbath, Nirvana 2002, Abhoth and Toxaemia (amongst many others) belonged in a 2nd wave of Swedish bands that drew their influences from the seminal recordings of Nihilist/Entombed, Dismember and Carnage, and helped establish and perpetuate what would become one of the strongest scenes in the history of Death Metal, as well as one of its most recognizable and particular sub-genres soundwise. This compilation of all the material that Goddefied ever recorded is indeed a small yet worthy piece of Death Metal history itself. From the raw-sounding "Assembly of the Damned" demo recorded in an amateur-ish local studio in 1991 (only 100 copies pressed) under the bandīs early inception as Enshrined, to the 2009īs "Remnants of the Art" EP, and through the cult and highly sought-after 1993īs "Abysmal Grief" EP (actually recorded at Sunlight Studio and produced by Mr. Skogsberg), Goddefied take you on a nostalgia trip back to a time when the "buzzsaw" guitar tone reigned supreme and thousands of worldwide fans gave in to Swedish Death Metal. Featuring no remastering at all (only a slight volume retouch has been executed for an even more pleasurable listening experience), and also including liner notes by the band, some previously unreleased songs and alternative takes on some of the bandīs classic tunes, and a fantastic artwork and layout by Cesar Valladares, "Inhumation of Shreds (Complete Recordings 1991-2009)" is definitely a must for all fans of über-classic Swedeath to eagerly enjoy: the shreds have been inhumated for thee!

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