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[2023-03-01]
DISTRO UPDATE!!!
This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month:

APOPLEXY - Tears of the unborn / Dysmorphophobia CD
AUTHORIZE - The Source of Dominion + Bonus Tracks CD
BOCC - A la Forca MCD
BOCC - Dolça Mort en els Llims del Rec Comtal + Demo II CD
BONES - Sombre Opulence CD (digipak)
CENOTAPH - The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows + EP´s / Demo 2CD
CINERATOR - Centuries of Silence + Demos 2CD
COFFIN CREEP - Corpse Defiler CD
CRUCIFORM - Atavism / Paradox CD
CRYPT OF KERBEROS - Cyclone of Insanity / Visions Beyond Darkness + Demos CD
CRYPT OF KERBEROS - World of Myths CD (digipak)
DAETH DAEMON - Span of Æons 2CD (digipak)
DAMNATION - Majesty in Degradation MCD
DEAD CHASM - Dead Chasm MCD
DEAD CONGREGATION - Graves of the Archangels CD
DEAD CONGREGATION - Promulgation of the Fall CD
DEATHCULT - Of Soil Unearthed CD
DEHUMAN REIGN - Ascending from Below CD
DEHUMAN REIGN - Descending upon the Oblivious CD
DERACINATION - Times of Atrocity + Demos 2CD
DIRA MORTIS - Euphoric Convulsions CD
DIRA MORTIS - Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy CD
DORMANT ORDEAL - The Grand Scheme of Things CD (digipak)
DORMANT ORDEAL - We Had It Coming CD (digipak)
ENCABULOS - Exhumed Abominations CD
ENCRYPTMENT - Dödens Födsel CD
EPITAPH - The Fleshcrawl Tapes ´91/´92 + Dark Abbey - Blasphemy CD
EPITAPH - Sinner Waketh CD
ETERNAL ROT - Cadaverine CD
ETERNAL ROT / COFFINS - Split CD
EXOTO - And Then You Die / The Fifth Season CD
EXOTO - Beyond the Depths of Hate CD (digipak)
FLESHCUT - Gruesome and Vile CD
FLESHCUT - Rot in Pieces 2007-2012 CD
GOREMENT - The Ending Quest CD (digipak)
GRANULATED - Demo MCD
GRAVE INFESTATION - Persecution of the Living CD
GRENADIER - Trumpets Blare in Blazing Glory CD
HADI MORD - Smute​č​ní Slavnost CD
INFESTER - Darkness Unveiled CD
INFESTER - To the Depths, in Degradation 2CD
INVICTUS - The Catacombs of Fear CD
ISOLATED (Mexico) - Ungodly Abomination CD (digipak)
ISOLATED (Mexico) - Hell Denied CD (digipak)
LUCIFERICON - The Warlock of Da´ath CD
MACHETAZO - Ultratumba II CD (slipcase)
MALTHUSIAN / SUFFERING HOUR - Time´s Withering Shadow CD (digipak)
MISCREANCE - Convergence CD
MISERY - Revel in Blasphemy CD
MISERY - Curses CD
MISERY - On Demon Wings CD
MOLDER - Sonic Purulence CD
MOLESTED - Stormvold + Demos CD
MORTUARY (France) - Nothingless than Nothingness CD
NECROM - All Paths Are Left Here... CD (digipak)
NECRONY - Pathological Performances CD (slipcase)
OBSCURE INFINITY - Into the Vortex of Obscurity CD
PARASITARIO - Afterlife Truth MCD
PARASITARIO - Everything Belongs to Death CD
PHARMACIST - Forensic Pathology Jurisprudence [Extended Jurisdiction] CD
PHARMACIST - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition CD
PHARMACIST - Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds CD
PHRENELITH - Chimaera CD
QRIXKUOR - Zoetrope MCD (digipak)
REINCARNATED - Of Boötes Void Death Spell CD
ROTTEN TOMB - Visions of a Dismal Fate CD (digipak)
RUDE - Soul Recall CD
RUDE - Remnants... CD
SAVAGE DEITY - Decade of Savagery CD
SLAUGHTERDAY - Nightmare Vortex CD
SLAUGHTERDAY - Laws of the Occult CD
SLAUGHTERDAY - Ancient Death Triumph CD
SLAUGHTERDAY - Tyrants of Doom CD
SLUGATHOR - Unleashing the Slugathron CD
SLUGATHOR - Circle of Death CD
SLUGATHOR - Echoes from Beneath CD
SLUGATHOR - Crypt of the Ancient Fire CD
STRESS ANGEL - Bursting Church CD
SUFFERING SIGHTS - When Sanity Becomes Insanity CD
SULPHUR AEON - Swallowed by the Ocean´s Tide CD (digipak)
SULPHUR AEON - Gateway to the Antisphere CD (digipak)
SULPHUR AEON - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos CD (digipak)
SUMMERTIME DAISIES - The Clarity of Impurity + Demos CD
SUPPRESSION - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh CD
SWEVEN - The Eternal Resonance CD (digipak)
SWOLLEN - The Breathless Waiting / Promo ´98 CD
THULSA DOOM - A Fate Worse than Death CD
TRAUMA - Comedy Is Over CD (slipcase)
TRAUMA - Neurotic Mass CD (slipcase)
TRAUMA - Archetype of Chaos CD (digipak)
TRAUMA - Ominous Black CD (slipcase)
TRAUMA - Acrimony MCD
TRIUMVIR FOUL - Urine of Abomination CD
TRIUMVIR FOUL - Onslaught to Seraphim CD
VACANT COFFIN - Sewer Skullpture CD
VOMIT SPELL - Demo 2019 MCD
VOMIT SPELL - Vomit Spell CD
ZEALOTRY - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds CD
ABHORRENCY - Climax of Disgusting Impurities CD (digipak)
AEGRUS - Devotion for the Devil CD
ANGELCORPSE - Hammer of Gods CD
ANGELCORPSE - Exterminate CD
ANGELCORPSE - The Inexorable CD
ANTEDILUVIAN - Watchers´ Reign CD
ARMAGEDDA - Only True Believers CD
ATRAMENTUM - Through Fire, Everything Is Renewed CD (digipak)
BURIALKULT - Infernal Death Manifest CD
COSCRADH - Nahanagan Stadial CD (digipak)
DEFECRATOR - Unholy Hymns of Bestial Warfare CD
DODSFALL - När mörkret är på väg CD (digipak)
EMPTY - Omnia Amet Lorem CD (digipak)
ETERNAL MAJESTY - From War to Darkness CD (digipak)
FLESIA - Essenz I & II CD
GNOSIS - Omens from the Dead Realm CD
HADOPELAGYAL - Nereidean Seismic End CD (digipak)
HARVEST GULGALTHA - Ancient Woods CD (digipak)
MUTIILATION - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood CD
MUTIILATION - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul CD
MUTIILATION - Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) CD
NECROPOLISSEBEHT - TTCCCLXXX MCD (digipak)
OMEGAVORTEX / PIOUS LEVUS - Split CD
SADISTIK EXEKUTION - The Magus CD
SADISTIK EXEKUTION - We Are Death... Fukk You! CD
SADISTIK EXEKUTION - K.A.O.S. CD
STORMKEEP - Galdrum CD (digipak)
TRINITAS - Total Heresy CD (digipak)
TRIUMPH - Retaliation Warfare CD
ABIGAIL - Intercourse & Lust CD
ABIGAIL - Forever Street Metal Bitch CD
ABIGAIL - The Best of Black Metal Yakuza CD
ABSU - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. CD
ABSU - The Third Storm of Cythraul CD
AGONIZE - Fall / Promo Demo 1993 CD
ALGEBRA - Chiroptera CD
BESIEGED - Violence Beyond All Reason CD
CRITICAL DEFIANCE - No Life Forms CD
GAROTA - Czarne Wizje CD
HELLISH - Grimoire CD
HELLISH - The Spectre of Lonely Souls CD
HELLISH - The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents CD
HEXENALTAR - Bestial Damnation CD
RAMPAGE - Veil of Mourn CD
REAPER - Viridian Inferno CD
RIPPER - Experiment of Existence CD
TRASTORNED - Into the Void CD
MOURNFUL CONGREGATION - The Exuviae of Gods - Part I CD
OPHIS - The Dismal Circle CD
OPHIS - Spew Forth Odium CD

[2023-02-16]
ETERNAL ROT (U.K./Poland) 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: ETERNAL ROT, from U.K./Poland.

ETERNAL ROT crawled out of a musty dungeon in London in 2012, born out of a passion for Death Metal by Mayer and Grindak. Their "2013 promo tape" demo (released as "Grave Grooves" on 7" EP through Fallen Temple Productions a year after), featured two swampy and deadly tracks that attracted vigilant zombies who began to spread the word about a new sonic disease. A few years of disgusting excavations later, they joined forces with Godz Ov War Production and spewed out the debut album, "Cadaverine", which was adorned with the artwork of Mark Riddick, who would ultimately become the band´s artist of choice from then on. Shortly after, the duo were joined by Radek Pierściński (Meat Spreader, Neuropathia, The Dead Goats) on drums and the result was the band´s second album, "Putridarium", which featured an improved formula of their already trademark purulent and über-crushing Death Metal. The band´s latest chapter of filth up to date was the 2021 split with Death/Doom Metal powerhouse Coffins, on Behind the Mountain Records.

What we´re dealing with here is organ-crushing, mind-blowing and sickening Death Metal that´s stripped to the very bone and insanely catchy, showcasing gnarly and slightly distorted vocals, downtuned guitars, a gut-wrenching rhythm section and a horror-drenched atmosphere that´s utterly recommended to fans of Autopsy, Undergang, Hooded Menace, Rippikoulu, Anatomia, Disma, Coffins, Grave, Incantation, Funebrarum...

Memento Mori (CD) and Godz Ov War Productions (LP, tape and digital) will team up to unleash the band´s 3rd full-length on July 24th, 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:
"Promo Tape 2013" demo (2013)
"Fatal Offering" song on "Vestibule of Hell" compilation (2016)
"Cadaverine" album (2018)
"Putridarium" album (2020)
Split w/ Coffins (2021)

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/EternalRot
https://eternalrot.bandcamp.com

[2023-02-02]
SADISTIC DRIVE (Finland) 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: SADISTIC DRIVE, from Finland.

SADISTIC DRIVE is a murderous five-headed death fiend from Joensuu, excreting Death Metal with influences ranging from Cannibal Corpse hammering to Autopsy-ish slime gurgling. The band was formed in 2018 by Jusa Janhonen and Niklas Heiskanen as a deranged two-man cellar experiment, recording their first demo "Street Cannibal Gluttony", but grew to four members before the first demo was even out, when Matti Kolehmainen and Jesse Räsänen joined the patrol. In 2020 this lineup released their debut album, titled "Anthopophagy", which was bursting with twisted riffs and perverse song structures. The lineup mutated again in 2021 when Niklas left and two new members, namely Eelis Koivula and Voltti Laakkonen, joined the murder squad. In this current form, SADISTIC DRIVE released their second album, titled "Perpetual Torture", a sonic onslaught full to the brim with rabid hammer blast beats and riffs more contagious than ebola. SADISTIC DRIVE are now more depraved and bloodthirsty than ever and ready to deliver another O.D. of demented violence and total death.

Memento Mori (CD) and Rotted Life (LP, tape and digital) will team up to unleash the band´s 3rd full-length. 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).

Band live photo by Emerik Siimessalmi.

Discography:
"Street Cannibal Gluttony" demo (2018)
"Street Cannibal Gluttony / Rehearsal 05/2019" compilation (2019)
"Anthropophagy" album (2020)
"Black Market Mortician" single (2022)
"Suicide Self-Portrait" single (2022)
"Perpetual Torture" album (2022)

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/censoreddrive
https://sadisticdrive.bandcamp.com

[2023-02-01]
DISTRO UPDATE!!!
This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month:

ABOMINANT - Where Demos Dwell CD
APPARITION (U.S.A.) - Granular Transformation MCD
ASHEN TOMB - Ashen Tomb MCD (clear disc)
ASHES - In the Abyss of Darkness CD
ATHEIST - Jupiter CD
AZARATH - Demon Seed CD
AZARATH - Infernal Blasting CD
AZARATH - Diabolic Impious Evil CD
BIZARRE - Invocation Codex CD (digipak)
BLACKTHORN - Blackthorn / Final Dawn of Immortality CD (digipak)
BLACKTHORN - The Rotten Ways of Human Misery + Bonus CD
BLASPHEMATORY - Depths of the Obscurity CD
BLASPHEMATORY - The Lower Catacombs CD
CADAVEROUS QUARTET - The Complete Agenda 2CD
CIMMERIAN POSSESSION - Sadistic Storm MCD
CONJURETH - The Parasitic Chambers CD
DECONSECRATION - Demo MCD (digisleeve)
DECONSECRATION / RE-BURIED - Deconsecration / Re-Buried CD
DECONSECRATION - Crypt Lurker CD
DELIRIUM - Zzooouhh + Demos/Live 2CD
DEMONIC RAGE - Omen of Doom CD
DEMONIC RAGE / BARBARIKULT - Cadaver Christ´s Desecration / I Kill from Dark Legions CD
DESECRATE THE FAITH - III CD
DISINCARNATED - Disincarnated / Their Debris Mortals CD
DISINTER - Demolition CD
DISINTER - Breaker of Bones CD
DISINTER / DISINTER (Peru) - Alliance of Death CD
EKRON CULT - Queen of the Luxury / Ekron Cult CD
FLESHGRIND - Demo Days CD (digisleeve)
HATRED (The Netherlands) - Blasphemous Deliverance CD
HEKATOXEN - Utter Darkness MCD
HIDDEN PRIDE - Brutal Advice CD (digisleeve)
IMPERIAL EXECRATION - Commanding Satan´s Crusades CD
INNER DECAY - Enter the Void CD
MASS INFECTION - For I Am Genocide CD
MASS INFECTION - Shadows Became Flesh CD
MENTALLY MURDERED - Sick and Twisted CD (digisleeve)
MORBUS GRAVE - Lurking into Absurdity CD
MORGOTH - Pits of Utumno + Live Tilburg 1990 CD
MORTAL DECAY - A Gathering of Human Artifacts CD
MORTICIOUS - Morticious CD
MYSTIC CHARM - Hell Did Freeze Over CD
NECROVATION - Necrovation CD
NERVOCHAOS - To the Death CD
NERVOCHAOS - Ablaze CD (slipcase)
PALE KING - We Are but Memories CD
PHOBOS MONOLITH - When the Light Will Fade MCD
PLASMODULATED - Plasmodulated MCD (clear disc)
POSTHUMAN ABOMINATION - Mankind Recall CD
PRION - Uncertain Process CD + DVD
PRION - Aberrant Calamity CD
PUTRIDARIUM - An Exploration of Burial Perversion CD
PYPHOMGERTUM - Anacreon + Promo ´94 CD
RANCORUM - The Vermin Shrine CD
ROGGA JOHANSSON - Inside the Otherwhere CD
SARCOMA - At One with the Dead CD
SEPULCHRAL CURSE - Deathbed Sessions MCD
SIJJEEL - Salvation Within Insanity CD
SKINLESS - Gut Pumping Hits - The Demos CD (digisleeve)
STABBING - Extirpated Mortal Process CD
STENCH - In Putrescence CD
STENCH - Venture CD (digipak)
TORTURE RACK - Pit of Mutilation MCD
TYPHONIAN - Beneath the Streams of Life CD (digipak)
TYPHONIAN - The Cosmic Pendulum of Time CD (digipak)
UNGODLY REST - Delusions of an Indoctrinated Void CD (slipcase)
VACUOUS DEPTHS - Corporal Humiliation CD
VIOLENT DIRGE - Elapse CD
VOID COLUMN - The Chasmic Death / Quiescence MCD
WHARFLURCH - Shitslime MCD
WHARFLURCH - Psychedelic Realms ov Hell CD
WICKED INNOCENCE - Anthropological Infestation CD (digisleeve)
WICKED INNOCENCE - Omnipotence CD (digisleeve)
WICKED INNOCENCE - Opium Empire CD (digisleeve)
APPALLING - Sacrilege CD
IMPIETY - Formidonis Nex Cultus CD (slipcase)
IN AETERNUM - Dawn of a New Aeon CD
KAWIR - To Cavirs CD (digipak)
KAWIR - Epoptia CD (digipak)
KAWIR - Arai CD (digipak)
KAWIR - Ophiolatreia CD (digipak)
KAWIR - Isotheos CD (digipak)
MORMANT DE SNAGOV - Exquisite Aspects of Wrath CD
PREHISTORIC WAR CULT - Under the Sign of the Red Moon MCD
YOTH IRIA - As the Flame Withers CD
ANTHARES - No Limite da Forca + Bonus CD
DORSAL ATLANTICA - Antes do Fim + Bonus CD
DORSAL ATLANTICA - Dividir & Conquistar + Bonus CD
GUERRA TOTAL - CCX CD
HELLBLOOD - The Angel of Destruction CD
MX - Simoniacal CD
MX - Mental Slavery CD
SLAUGHTER - Strappado CD
SUCCUBUS - The Misantropic Manifesto CD
AEONIAN SORROW - Into the Eternity a Moment We Are CD (digipak)
AEONIAN SORROW - A Life Without CD (digipak)
APHONIC THRENODY - The All Consuming Void CD
CLOUDS - Doliu CD (digipak)
CLOUDS - Departe CD (digipak)
CLOUDS - Destin CD (digipak)
CLOUDS - Dor II CD (digipak)
CLOUDS - Despărțire CD (digipak)
EYE OF SOLITUDE - Cenotaph CD (digipak)
EYE OF SOLITUDE - Slaves to Solitude CD (digipak)
EYE OF SOLITUDE - The Ghost CD (digipak)
EYE OF SOLITUDE - Godless CD (digipak)
OCEAN OF GRIEF - Nightfall´s Lament CD
RIGOR SARDONICOUS - Ridenti Mortuus CD
RIGOR SARDONICOUS - Praeparet Bellum CD
SLOW - III - Gaïa CD
SLOW - IV - Mythologiæ CD
SLOW - V - Oceans CD (digipak)
SOLEMN ECHOES - Into the Depths of Sorrow CD
THE SOMBRE - Monuments of Grief CD
TRISTITIA - Lamentations from the Beginning CD
TRISTITIA - Burial of the Sad CD
TRISTITIA - Doomystic CD (digipak)

[2023-01-23]
OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!!
CONJURETH - The Parasitic Chambers CD [MEMENTO-CXXIII]
The highly anticipated 2nd full-length by this U.S. band. Although they formed in 2018, Conjureth went on a tear starting in 2020, unleashing two demos, "Foul Formations" and "The Levitation Manifest", which all culminated in their debut album for Memento Mori. Ominously titled "Majestic Dissolve", Conjureth´s first full-length achieved its goal: continuing the traditions forged by the originators of Death Metal, and then some. That they achieved that goal so swiftly and effortlessly was perhaps unsurprising -after all, this lineup of Conjureth do have or have done time in such bands as Encoffination, VoidCeremony and Ghoulgotha, among many others- but the power-trio slayed their way through late 80´s-inspired filth like a well-oiled/slimed machine. Now, Conjureth return with an album that arguably eclipses that all-too-considerable predecessor: "The Parasitic Chambers". Keenly understanding that Death Metal doesn´t need to change -or rather, the wheel doesn´t need reinvention- Conjureth turn that wheel with even more power and poise than before whilst keeping their core sound intact. Like that predecessor, "The Parasitic Chambers" locates that all-too-short time when Death Metal wasn´t primarily full of blastbeats, caveman riffs, ultra-low-tuned guitars and super-guttural vocals, slotting into that bygone age of 1986-to-1989-style Death Metal with a heaping portion of Thrash Metal riffing and a dash of the technical side of things that would be unearthed a few years later. If anything, Conjureth make their deathrashing musings even more manic and muscular here: while more ripping than ever, the riffing takes tons of wild and weird detours, often literally blowing the mind, as the rhythms take the "by the books" approach and bend the cover backwards; meanwhile, the trio´s multi-tentacled attack retains a full-bodied sense of heft that´s sharpened to an enviable degree by the clear-yet-crushing production. Or, simply imagine late 80´s Tampa receiving strange and unsettling transmissions from Finland a few years ahead. If "Majestic Dissolve" celebrated the past giving birth to the future, then "The Parasitic Chambers" is the sound of that future beginning to beautifully rot. Graced with yet another mesmerizing cover courtesy of Erskine Designs, "The Parasitic Chambers" continues Conjureth´s ascent as one of the most time-warping bands around!

RIGOR SARDONICOUS - Praeparet Bellum CD [MEMENTO-CXXIV]
The long-awaited 7th full-length by this U.S. band. True purveyors of aural torment, Rigor Sardonicous are one of the cultest bands of the American extreme Metal underground. Formed in 1988, the long-standing duo of bassist Glenn Hampton and vocalist/guitarist Joseph Fogarazzo remain one of the darkest and creepiest bands calling "Death Metal" home. Aided by their ever-trustworthy drum machine, Rigor Sardonicous are utterly lifeless and excruciatingly slow, almost daring the listener to find any "fun" in their all-devouring void of inertia. You could almost qualify their music(k) as Doom/Death Metal, but not in the traditional sense; existing for as long as (and even longer) than aesthetic forebears like Unholy and Evoken, Rigor Sardonicous´ slo-mo sizzle equally bears a future-primitive texture not unlike earliest Godflesh or especially the cult Skin Chamber. And so it goes with "Praeparet Bellum", the band´s first full-length recording in over a decade. Immediately and ruinously recognizable as Rigor Sardonicous, "Praeparet Bellum" thankfully features all the duo´s signature elements: crushing heaviness, beyond-guttural vocals and the very slowest of songwriting movement, but devolves them to a frightening degree. Perhaps because of their eerie absence since 2012´s Memento Mori-released "Ego Diligio Vos", Rigor Sardonicous sound more unique than ever on "Praeparet Bellum": the sub-genres of Doom/Death Metal and Funeral Doom are definitely in full swing, but there´s little to nothing around as unremittingly empty and hopeless as this. You don´t "listen" to this album, and you most definitely don´t "endure" it, for its ominous corpulence is only experienced. Bleak? That´s simply too fun. Here stands the End of all Ends. Be warned: you will not return from "Praeparet Bellum"!

DELIRIUM - Zzooouhh + Demos/Live 2CD [MEMENTO-XLVII]
Repress of one of the OOP and most sought-after Memento Mori reissues: none other than DELIRIUM´s "Zzooouhh". Aptly titled "Zzooouhh + Demos/Live", this 2CD set features the "Zzooouhh" album (1990), the "Delirium" demo (1988), the "Amputation" demo (1989) and a full live show recorded straight from the soundboard @ Network (Aalst, Belgium) back in March 31st, 1991. Over 130 minutes of rancid, primitive and odorous Death/Doom Metal like some sort of Celtic Frost / Dream Death meets early Asphyx, Obituary, early Death and Necro Schizma, with one of the most putrid voices ever. All songs were subtly remastered by Ted Tringo at The Ancient Way Mastering (U.S.A.). Expanded / upgraded layout by Ted Tringo as well, including liner notes by Mark Honout (Delirium´s guitar/vox), Ricard García (Morbid Visions ´zine), Wannes Gubbels (Pentacle, Asphyx), Costa Stoios (Tales Of The Macabre Mag, Iron Pegasus Records), Stephan Gebédi (Hail Of Bullets, Thanatos) and Olivier "Zoltar" Badin (Terrorizer Mag), as well as rare old pics and flyers.

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