[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. [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 << Prev Next >>