[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. [2023-01-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: ASPHYX - Asphyx CD ASPHYX - God Cries CD ASPHYX - Embrace the Death CD ASPHYX - On the Wings of Inferno CD ASTRAL TOMB - Soulgazer CD ATROCIA - Contamination CD (digipak) AUTOPHAGY - Bacteriophage CD BARBARIAN PROPHECIES - Horizon CD (digipak) BOCC - A la Forca MCD CENTINEX - Malleus Maleficarum CD (slipcase) CENTINEX - Reborn Through Flames CD CLAIRVOYANCE - Threshold of Nothingness MCD COFFIN ROT - A Monument to the Dead CD CRYPTIC BROOD - Outcome of Obnoxious Science CD CRYPTIC SHIFT - Visitations from Enceladus CD DARK OPERA - The Journey to the Both Paths of Life, Sins and Resurrection CD DEATH FROM ABOVE - Altered Dimension CD (digipak) DEPRAVITY - Reign of the Depraved MCD DISGORGE - Chronic Corpora Infest CD (digipak) DISMA - Towards the Megalith CD (slipcase) EXPULSION - Certain Corpses Never Decay CD GOREBRINGER - Terrified Beyond Measure CD (digipak) GRAVEYARD WINDS - Assault to the Coffin MCD GROG - Macabre Requiems CD GUTVOID - Durance of Lightless Horizons CD HEX - Behold the Unlighted MCD (digipak) HIBERNUS MORTIS - The Monoliths of Cursed Slumber CD IN SLUMBER - While We Sleep CD IRON FLESH - Limb after Limb CD (digipak) LIVIDITY - Rejoice in Morbidity MCD MORBIFIC - Ominous Seed of Putridity CD MUCUPURULENT - Sicko Baby and More Babes CD MUCUPURULENT - Bloodstained Blues CD MYCELIUM - Mycoticism: Disseminating the Propagules CD NECRO CHAOS - Spiral of Obscurity MCD NUNSLAUGHTER - Hells Unholy Fire 2CD NUNSLAUGHTER - Red Is the Color of Ripping Death CD (red disc) OBSCENE - ...from Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon CD OPEN CASKET - Annihilation Summoning CD PATHOGEN - Moribund Manifesto CD PNEUMA HAGION - Demiurge CD POST-MORTEM - Monumental Pandemonium CD (digipak) PURGATORY - Apotheosis of Anti Light CD SADISTIC DRIVE - Anthropophagy CD (digipak) SADISTIC DRIVE - Perpetual Torture CD SOULSLICER - Pandemic CD (digipak) SPIRAL WOUNDS - Shadows CD (digipak) STORMGREY - DNA of Chaos CD (digipak) SUBORBITAL - Planetary Disruption CD TEMPLE OF WORMS - Liber de Morbis CD (digipak) THE CHASM - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow CD UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED - Dimension of Deviant Clusters CD VASTUM - Patricidal Lust CD (slipcase) ARKONA - An Eternal Curse of the Pagan Godz CD HOLY DEATH - Abraxas 2CD HUORIPUKKI - Ikuinen Kamppailu CD INVULTATION - Wolfstrap CD MORDHELL - Satanic Wombs CD VENERATION - The Core of Revelation (Triumphant Resistance) CD VINTERLAND - Welcome My Last Chapter CD (slipcase) VONULFSREICH - Ragnarök Rising CD WAN - Antichristian Douchebags CD WATAIN - Rabid Death´s Curse CD (slipcase) WATAIN - Sworn to the Dark CD (digipak) WATAIN - Trident Wolf Eclipse CD DISEMBODY - Reigniting Hellfire CD MASTER - Unknown Soldier (Unreleased 1985 Album) CD MASTER - Faith Is in Season CD SCORN - Winds of Torment CD (digipak) SPEEDKILLER - Midnight Vampire MCD THRASHERA - Bastardos da Noite CD TYRANNO - March of Death CD VECTIS - No Mercy for the Weak MCD ACOLYTES OF MOROS - The Wellspring CD BALATE - El Quemadero CD BURIAL CHOIR - The Eucharist of Martyrs CD (digipak) BURIAL CHOIR - Descension of Firmament CD (digipak) CRUZEIRO - Cruzeiro CD (digipak) DRACONIAN - Arcane Rain Fell CD (slipcase) EVANGELIST - Ad Mortem Festinamus CD JOHN THE BAPTIST - John the Baptist CD LUCIFER´S FALL - Fuck You, We´re Lucifer´s Fall CD MAGEC - Ethereal Link MCD (digipak) MONASTERIUM - Church of Bones CD MONASTERIUM - Cold Are the Graves CD ORNAMENTOS DEL MIEDO - Yo, No Soy Yo CD ROSARY - Telestai MCD SERPENT WARNING - Pagan Fire CD SOLEMN CEREMONY - Demise CD [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) << Prev Next >>