DECREPIT RITUALS offers a refined and distilled dose of death metal. Making the executive decision to remain with one guitarist, Sam Alcock has twisted contemporary death metal with the older schooled sound of the yesteryear. Guitar riffs invert at a bile-evoking pace into fever pitched insanity. Exposure to DECREPIT RITUALS leaves one unsettled, broiled, and disparaged.

DECREPIT RITUALS recorded across latter 2011; DEFAMER has again invoked Ean Redman for recording and mixing duties, along with guitarist Sam Alcock. increasing his involvement in the process. DEFAMER ensured meticulous standards were in place to capture the abominating sonic orgies and secure with conviction. Mastering was finalised by Jason “PC” Fuller at Goatsounds, Melbourne to mark the final ritual in the process.

After completing a hiatus from extensive touring, DEFAMER will be taking to the road for an initial 11 day Australian/Japanese tour in support of ‘DECREPIT RITUALS’.

• Friday Feb 24th – MOON STEP. Tokyo, Japan.
• Saturday Feb 25th – MESCALIN DRIVE. Shizuoka, Japan
• Sunday Feb 26th – CLUB VIJON. Osaka, Japan
• Monday Feb 27th – IMAGE. Okayama, Japan
• Tuesday Feb 28th – KIETH FLACK. Fukuoka, Japan
• Thursday March 8th – Hotel Norville (ALL AGES). Toowoomba, Australia.
• Friday March 9th – The Jubilee Hotel (downstairs). Brisbane, Australia
• Saturday March 10th – The Bald Faced Stag. Sydney, Australia
• Sunday March 11th (Public Holiday eve) – The Bendigo Hotel. Melbourne, Australia.
• Monday March 12th – The Pot Belly Bar. Canberra, Australia.
• Friday March 16th – The Amplifier Bar. Perth, Australia.

ABOUT DEFAMER
DEFAMER’s inception began late 2006 with sole intention of creating uncompromising death metal. After locally circulating a self titled demo in 2007 and following up with the “In Winter It Began” demo in 2008, DEFAMER shot to national infamy playing interstate festivals, supporting the likes of VADER, CARCASS, and CANNIBAL CORPSE. January 2009 saw DEFAMER unleash the debut full length CHASM with reviews hailing it as a chaotic and relentless onslaught.  Recorded live in a desolate area in Brisbane’s far north, the band wanted to capture the intense energy that met the pinnacles of their live reputation. Upon release the band toured Australia incessantly and made the leap over the Tasman Sea to New Zealand with grinders HUMAN in support of The Great Rift / Anti 7″ split. After the departure of guitarist Mitchell Rogers, the remaining members of DEFAMER became focused on finalising material for a new record. Live shows boded well as a four piece and the writing took on a more condensed death metal sound to emerge with their sophomore album, DECREPIT RITUALS and an eleven date Japanese and Australian tour over February and March 2012.

DEFAMER is Sam Alcock – Guitar, James Geekie – Drums, Kris Sadler – Bass Guitar, Tim Smith – Vocals.

AVAILABLE NOW
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VERMIN documents the metamorphosis of THRALL from a sanguinary studio project to a formidable live entity that now includes Leigh Ritson (ex Disseminate) on bass and Ramez Bathish (ex Whitehorse / ABC Weapons) on second guitar. THRALL built their live reputation on punishing volume and an atmosphere of menace. THRALL recently performed at Melbourne’s High Voltage Festival 2011 at the Corner Hotel, Richmond featuring US thrash legends Forbidden.

VERMIN delivers a unique blend of old-school black metal and hypnotic void-worship. In seven songs it encompasses bile-soaked mid-paced anthems (“Vermin to the Earth / Oblivion”), sanguinary lurching dirges (“Plague of Man”), and hell-blasting suicidal elegies (“Vita Vacuus Voluntas”). The new album is more: cohesive, hefty, solemn and yet more spacious than THRALLʼs debut, Away from the Haunts of Men. Vermin is a requiem to a cursed species.

VERMIN was recorded across two hemispheres and continents. Drums were recorded in April 2010 by Ippei Suda (known for his work with Corrupted) at LM Studio, Osaka, Japan. Guitars, bass and vocals were recorded by Trent Griggs June – July 2010 at The Gate, Margate, Tasmania. The album was mixed by Trent Griggs August 2010 – June 2011 at The Gate, Margate, Tasmania. The album was mastered by Jack the Bear (Tony Mantz) on 1st July 2011 at Deluxe Mastering, Melbourne, Victoria.

THRALL – VERMIN TO THE EARTH available October 31st from Obsidian Records, Bandcamp and iTunes and available November 1st in JB Hifi stores across Australia and New Zealand.

For streaming preview, pre-orders and more media please visit http://bit.ly/pEZujc

For a recent in depth THRALL interview please visit Lurker’s Path http://bit.ly/psH6UM

Tracklist:
1. Vermin to the Earth
2. Oblivion
3. Disease’s Maiming Caress
4. Plague of Man
5. Mass Extinction
6. Ecstasy not of the Flesh
7. Vita Vacuus Voluntas

TOUR DATES
Friday 4th November @ The Wall, Sydney w/ Creeping (NZ) / Erebus Enthroned / Bleakwood
Saturday 5th November @ Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne w/ Creeping (NZ) / Whitehorse / Destruktor / Order of Orias
Friday 23rd December @ Brisbane Hotel w/ Ruins, Whitehorse + guests
more dates TBA

ABOUT THRALL
Tasmanian black metal band THRALL (formerly known as THY PLAGUES) came into being in 2005 as the 4-track drum-machine solo-project of TOM VOID. With the addition of EM STØY in 2006 the project became a duo. THRALL is comprised of a creative core (VOID and STØY), supplemented by live and recorded guests.

ABOUT OBSIDIAN RECORDS
Established circa 2005 for the manufacture, promotion and distribution of Australian extreme metal.

www.thrallofvoid.com
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Friday July 1st – Brisbane – Jubilee Hotel w/ The Dead, Ouroborus, Hate Disciple

Friday July 8th – Melbourne – Noise Bar w/ The Plague Black, Desecrator, Dawn of Retribution, Pretty Suicide

Saturday July 9th – Geelong – Barwon Club w/ Destruktor, Desecrator, The Plague Black

Friday July 15th – Sydney – Live at the Wall w/ Roadside Burial, Nobody Knew They Were Robots, Lomera

August 5th – The Patch, Wollongong NSW w/ Rampage, Hell Itself & Trouldhaugen

August 6th – The Basement, Canberra ACT w/ Tortured, Lower Back Problems, Empirical & Punishment

August 26th – Club Led, Newcastle NSW TBA

August 27th – The Valve Bar, Sydney NSW w/ Mytile Vey Lorth, Hell Itself & Autolysis

September 2nd – The Squatters Arms, Adelaide SA w/The Mung + More to be announced

September 3rd – Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne VIC w/The Mung + More to be announced

September 10th – The Sandringham Hotel, Sydney NSW (Bastardfest) w/Psycroptic, Blood Duster + many more bands

September 16th – The Jubilee Hotel, Brisbane QLD w/Excruciate, Eternal Desecration & Malakyte

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Exploding onto the Australian death metal scene in 2006, DAEMON FOETAL HARVEST quickly garnered a reputation for delivering a live assault akin to a knockout punch. This live debut setting was quickly followed by their EP ABDUCTED AND COMPACTED [2007] amidst their first foray into national touring, which served to feed a hungry anticipation for this monstrous debut album.

WHERE IT DWELLS is a three course meal of relentless early nineties Death Metal. Featuring punishing guitar and vocal assaults hearkening back to early Cannibal Corpse and maintaining a groove more consistent with the huge passages of Morbid Angel and Abramelin.

DAEMON FOETAL HARVEST – WHERE IT DWELLS available from July 19th in JB Hifi stores across Australia and New Zealand.

Track listing:
1. Intro
2. I Butchered Them All
3. Riddled With Parasites
4. Hogtied And Headless
5. Dead Before I Started
6. Dismembered, Buried, Forgotten
7. Buckeld Body Abortion.
8. Innocence To Incineration
9. I’m Always Watching You
10. Where It Dwells

DAEMON FOETAL HARVEST will embark on the following confirmed tour dates in support of WHERE IT DWELLS with plans of a Perth assault forming for the new year.
5/8/11 The Patch, Wollongong NSW
6/8/11 The Basement, Canberra A.C.T
26/8/11 Club Led, Newcastle NSW
27/8/11 The Valve Bar, Sydney NSW
2/9/11 The Squatters Arms, Adelaide SA
3/9/11 The Tote, Melbourne VIC
10/9/11 The Sandringham Hotel, Sydney NSW (Bastardfest)
16/9/11 The Jubilee Hotel, Brisbane QLD

ABOUT DAEMON FOETAL HARVEST
DAEMON FOETAL HARVEST [DFH] began in 2006 with the intent to bludgeon the metal scene with their brand of old and new school Death Metal. After releasing the debut EP ABDUCTED AND COMPACTED, DFH toured Australia’s east coast and shared the stage with many international acts including Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus and Napalm Death. After the success of the E.P. DFH re-entered the studio to record the blistering full-length follow up WHERE IT DWELLS.

ABOUT OBSIDIAN RECORDS
Established circa 2005 for the manufacture, promotion and distribution of Australian extreme metal.

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For the past six years the enigmatic ‘NEATH have been a mainstay in progressive metal across Australia. After TSS [2007] and TSU [2008] both quickly sold out, it was decided to re-release both albums in a deluxe 2CD package as a prelude to the forthcoming third ‘NEATH opus.

Since the initial release of TSS [2007] and TSU [2008], ‘NEATH have toured across Australia garnering critical acclaim from all shows. The re-release of the much-celebrated TSS & TSU ensures fans old and new will be able to reflect on a stunning piece of Australian metal once again.

‘neath – The Spiders Sleep & The Small Untruths available from June 15th in JB Hifi stores across Australia and New Zealand.

Disc 1
1. Where the Dead Birds Lie
2. The Spiders Sleep
3. The Silk-Laden Whore
4. Sordid Grim Lie
5. Blank Identity Crisis

Disc 2
1. Untruths
2. Shell
3. Down
4. Remember
5. Paintings
6. Worm

‘neath will be launching the re-release at The Globe Theatre Friday June 3rd with supports from The Veil [NSW] & The Nihilist.

ABOUT ‘neath
Forming in early 2003, ‘NEATH have established themselves as one of Australia’s premier ethereal metal bands. With their 2007 debut THE SPIDERS SLEEP and the 2008 follow-up THE SMALL UNTRUTHS receiving local acclaim and international attention. A selective touring schedule has seen ‘NEATH share the stage with the elite of Australia’s metal acts as well as the UK’s Cradle of Filth. An Australian tour in March 2012 will see ‘NEATH release their awaited third album to eager audiences and new fans.

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PROLONGING THE PAIN enforces that late 80s classic death metal is still as strong as it was in the yesteryear. Lacerating guitars from both Edgar and Perry re-enforced by tormenting vocals and bass from Reiff and devastating drums from Dwyer. PROLONGING THE PAIN is already a classic death metal release with brutality and groove the current era of death metal sorely lacks.

LACERATION MANTRA will launch their album this coming March.

25th March
Prolonging the Pain album launch w/ Desecrator, Lustration, Through Plagues
@ Rosies Live, Brisbane

ABOUT LACERATION MANTRA
LACERATION MANTRA formed in 2008 after Rob Rieff and Mick Perry collaborated with Scotty Edgar and Anthony Dwyer for Transfear sessions. Realising they were dealing with a different beast LACERATION MANTRA was founded.

PROLONGING THE PAIN track listing:
1. Thrown to the Wolves
2. Purveyors of Torment
3. The Innermost
4. Victims of Hate
5. Realisation
6. The Global Straightjacket
7. Surreal Reality
8. Prolonging the Pain
9. Barney
10. Blinders

OBSIDIAN RECORDS is proud to get behind one of our nation’s top acts as we re-release CLAGG – LORD OF THE DEEP after the initial pressing has since sold out. This addition comes with an added bonus in a cover of “Big Loader” by English sludge icon, Iron Monkey.

LORD OF THE DEEP is best described as a musical landslide, a thick tumultuous mass of earth steadily descending over the listener and engulfing them in a rocky sea of huge guitars, thundering drums and a truly monstrous voice. This is Australian Doom Metal at its finest.

Track Listing
1. Carrion
2. Lord of the Deep: Part 1 – They Dream Fire Part 2 – At the Rising of the Storm
3. Buried
4. The Harvest
5. Devour the Sun
6. Big Loader (Iron Monkey cover)

Touring Australia & New Zealand 2011

22nd April
Doomnation Festival w/ Pod People, Looking Glass, Fattura Della Morte + more
@ TBA, Melbourne

23rd April
Doomnation Festival w/ Pod People & Looking Glass
@TBA, Christchurch

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Available across stores in Australia and New Zealand Wide Now!

2 DARK NIGHTS OF EXTREME BLACK ART

SATURDAY FEB 5TH
The Factory Theatre

NAZXUL (NSW)
ASTRIAAL (QLD)
DROWNING THE LIGHT (NSW)
DESTRUKTOR (MELB)
WARDAEMONIC (PER)
EREBUS ENTHRONED (NSW)

FRIDAY FEB 4TH
The Bald Faced Stag Hotel

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE
PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS (NSW)
THRALL (VIC/TAS)
NAETU (PER)
BLEAKWOOD (NSW)

From the ashes of Black Mass festival Armageddon Festival rises like the phoenix to unite Australia’s black metal underground and as a testament to the rights of artists to freely express their full artistic views without censorship or opposition.
Australia’s black metal & extreme metal forces join once more in the ultimate union of musical black metal art over two huge nights in Sydney. They make no excuses for their ideologies nor the creation of extreme noise but only stand obstinate in the face of those who would challenge their musical freedom.

Friday night will begin the blackening of souls at The Bald Faced Stag Hotel. Pestilential Shadows burning with ire shall reunite for an exclusive live performance on the dawn of their fourth album soon to be unleashed! Another truly rare performance ensuing shall be that of Arkheth who have risen to new heights of Neo Classical, Symphonic Black Metal composition on their recent opus, ‘IX & I’. A true gem of the AUBM underground, Arkheth states that this shall be their last show for all eternity.
Naetu from Perth join the libations with their dark misanthropy alongside Sydney’s Bleakwood, who featuring members of Ironwood will be making their live debut which is not to be missed!
Friday Night celebrations will be closed by an exclusive & secret guest performance which shall only be revealed to those eyes who bear witness to what shall come.

Once your soul and liver has been suitably blackened by Friday night revelries prepare for the second night of artistic & nihilistic endeavor at The Factory Theatre for a huge night of sonic destruction.
This will be Nazxul’s only live Australian performance for 2011 before their disappearance into the shadows to record their new opus & follow up to 2009’s, ‘Iconoclast’ album.
They will be joined by Astriaal returning to Sydney after a seven year hiatus with their new album, ‘Anatomy of the Infinite’ in their only Sydney performance for 2011. Drowning The Light, one of Australia’s most enigmatic & intriguing Black Metal artists will also be performing their only Australian show for 2011.
Destruktor from Melbourne defiantly return to Sydney after a long absence to strike hard with their crushing displays of aural speed & brutality! The whirlwind of their destruction will not strike again soon as this is their only Sydney show for 2011.
The devastatingly heavy Wardaemonic will once again be bridging the great divide of distance and dragging you into their black void along side Sydney’s Erebus Enthroned to stand strong in the face of adversity.
Never before has there been such a gathering of Australian Black Metal, united they stand because Australian extreme music WILL NOT BE SILENCED by the voices of the few! We stand defiant and rally in the true spirit of metal brother & sisterhood against those who would dictate against our freedoms & love of extreme metal. Join us to support some of Australia’s finest metal acts as they converge upon Sydney to share their full artistic vision with the privileged few….

SATURDAY FEBURARY 5TH 2011
The Factory Theatre,
105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, Sydney.

$35 + Booking Fee
Doors – To be Announced
18+ Only

STALLS – GIVE AWAYS – DJS
Be not discouraged – only the darkest of sounds played from eve ‘til dawn.
Between musical appreciation peruse the wares available from the numerous stalls. Vinyl, Cds, Shirts & more.

The Factory Theatre is only a short bus or taxi ride from the heart of Newtown in Sydney.

Tickets available From – \
http://www.factorytheatre.com.au (Search Armageddon)
Factory Theatre Box Office – Phone (02) 9550 3666

Facebook Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=115826448482846

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4TH 2011
The Bald Faced Stag Hotel
345 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt

$12 at the gates of hell!
Doors – 7.30pm
18+ Only

Facebook Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186175198065443&ref=mf

BAND LINKS
NAZXUL – http://www.myspace.com/nazxul
ASTRIAAL – http://www.myspace.com/astriaal1
DROWNING THE LIGHT – http://www.myspace.com/drowningthelight
DESTRUKTOR – http://www.myspace.com/666destruktor
WARDAEMONIC – http://www.myspace.com/wardaemonic
EREBUS ENTHRONED – http://www.myspace.com/erebusenthroned
PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS – http://www.myspace.com/pestilentialshadows
THRALL – http://www.myspace.com/thrallofvoid
NAETU – http://www.myspace.com/naetudominion
BLEAKWOOD – http://www.myspace.com/bleakwood