This episode you'll hear new music from the upcoming releases from Traveler, Gatekeeper, Cold Colours, and Booze Control; all releasing February 22. Also hear Turkish black metal, obscure blackened death from Texas, filthy death doom, dreamy atmospheric doom, and some dungeon crawl heaviness!

The Sarcophagus - "Armoured Death" - Beyond This World's Illusion

http://tinyurl.com/y2np2fak

Wrought Of Obsidian - "The Phalanx" - At Long Last

https://wroughtofobsidian.bandcamp.com/album/at-long-last

Cavurn - "II" - Rehearsal

https://cavurn.bandcamp.com/album/rehearsal

Cold Colours - "Heathen" - Northernmost

https://coldcoloursmetal.bandcamp.com/album/northernmost

Varaha - "Cubicle" - Varaha EP

https://varaha.bandcamp.com/album/varaha-ep

Throne Of Iron - "A Call To Adventure" - 2018 Demo

https://throneofiron.bandcamp.com/album/2018-demo

Booze Control - "Attack Of The Axeman" - Forgotten Lands

https://boozecontrol.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-lands

Gatekeeper - "Moss" - Gray Maiden

https://gatekeeper.bandcamp.com/

Traveler - "Up To You" - Traveler

https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler

We start this episode off with my interview with Austin of Outer Heaven. Super cool dude and Realms of Eternal Decay is a killer release.

I miss-spoke, Superstition is not touring with Blood Incantation and Necrot, their just playing the Albuquerque show date (Feb. 14).

Bands in order of appearance.

Outer Heaven: "Multicellular Savagery" from Realms of Eternal Decay

https://outerheaven.bandcamp.com/album/realms-of-eternal-decay

Mourning Sign: "Who Will Crown the King" from Contra Mundum

https://mourningsign.bandcamp.com/album/contra-mundum

Mesarthim: "...--" from .- -​.​.​. .​.​. . -. -​.​-​. .

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/-

Gaoth: "Will of Mountains" from Dying Season's Glory

https://gaoth.bandcamp.com/album/dying-seasons-glory

Gilded Lily: "Weakling Sun" from Mongrel's Light

https://lionsjawbone.bandcamp.com/album/mongrels-light

LVTHN: "My Indignation" from Eradication of Nescience

https://lvthn.bandcamp.com/album/eradication-of-nescience

Carnal Ruin: "Pyres of Atonement" from Immortal Domain EP

https://carnalruintampa.bandcamp.com/album/immortal-domain

Superstition: "Outer Mutation" from Surging Throng of Evil's Might demo

https://superstitiondeath.bandcamp.com/album/surging-throng-of-evils-might

We have a great lineup for you this week. You'll hear death doom, traditional heavy metal, black crust, and even some gore death grind. Hear fresh new thrash from Critical Defiance and Laceration! Both of these great bands have albums releasing in early February!

Rotting Kingdom - Adrift in a Sea of Souls - Rotting Kingdom

https://rottingkingdom.bandcamp.com/releases

Sumerlands - Seventh Seal - Sumerlands

https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlands

Death Of Kings - Hell Comes to Life - Kneel Before None

https://deathofkings.bandcamp.com/album/kneel-before-none-2017

Critical Defiance - Onset - Misconception

https://unspeakableaxerecords.bandcamp.com/album/misconception

Laceration - Realms Of The Unconscious - Remnants

https://unspeakableaxerecords.bandcamp.com/album/remnants

Defecal of Gerbe - Abbath Loves Friskies; Diarrhée mousseuse - Mothershit

https://xenokorp.bandcamp.com/album/mothershit

Murder Inc. - Smrtihlav (Track 9) - Umlčen Navěky

https://murderinc.bandcamp.com/album/uml-en-nav-ky

Witchaven - Terrorstorm - Terrorstorm

https://witchaven.bandcamp.com/album/terrorstorm-2

Iskra - Predator Drone MQ-1 - Ruin

http://iskracrust.com/front.html (Donate/Download)

https://iskracrust.bandcamp.com/ (Listen)

This week we at Bitchin look back at 2018 and reflect on some of our favorite releases.

Support these bands!

In order of appearance.

Carnation

Album - Chapel of Abhorrence -

Song - Chapel of Abhorrence

https://carnation.bandcamp.com/album/chapel-of-abhorrence

Act of Impalement

Album - Perdition Cult

Song - Disembowelment Rituals of Moloch

https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/perdition-cult

Spectral Wound

Album - Infernal Decadence

Song - Slaughter of the Medusa

https://spectralwound.bandcamp.com/album/infernal-decadence

Vultures Vengeance

EP - LYRIDS: Warning From The Reign Of The Untold

Song - Empire of the Crimson Field

https://vulturesvengeance.bandcamp.com/album/lyrids-warning-from-the-reign-of-the-untold

Giant of the Mountain

Album - Natures Wrath

Song - Changing Land

https://giantofthemountain.bandcamp.com/album/natures-wrath

Horrendous

Album - Idol

Song - Devotion (Blood for Ink)

https://horrendous.bandcamp.com/album/idol

Acathexis

Album - Acathexis

Song - Veins Hollowed

https://acathexis.bandcamp.com/album/acathexis

Sulphur Aeon

Album - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos

Song - The Summoning of Nyarlathotep

https://sulphuraeon-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-scythe-of-cosmic-chaos

Convulsing

Album - Grievous

Song - Relent

https://convulsing.bandcamp.com/album/grievous

I'm a big humbug, so I thought what better way to celebrate the holiday season than to dedicate an episode to black metal.  Music with themes of  the occult, anti-theism, anti-Christianity, nature, satanism, and chaos are more my taste than the horrid cheeriness of Christmas carols.

Just because I'm a humbug doesn't mean I'm not going to take a holiday break.  Bitchin will be back next month with a "Best of 2018" episode! 

Follow the links below to support underground metal!

In order of appearance:

Malleus - Night Raids

https://malleusheavymetal.bandcamp.com/album/night-raids

Raven Throne - Vietru

https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/raven-throne-i-miortvym-snicca-zolak

Inconcessus Lux Lucis - At The Behest Of The Sinnister Impulse

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-crowning-quietus

Devouring Star - Sin Assimilation

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-arteries-of-heresy

Primal Cult - My Quest For Light

https://primalcult.bandcamp.com/album/perennial-fire

Firtan - Nacht Verweil

https://firtan.bandcamp.com/album/okeanos

Dumal - Abrahamic Contagion

https://dumal.bandcamp.com/album/the-lesser-god

RÛR

Physical: https://rur-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/album/r-r

Digital:  I,II,III https://rurdomain.bandcamp.com/album/r-r,

IV https://rurdomain.bandcamp.com/track/iv

Almyrkvi - Forlorn Astral Ruins

https://almyrkvi.bandcamp.com/album/umbra

This episode is filled to bursting with underground thrash.

In order of appearance:

Traitor - Predator (Skinned Alive)

https://violentcreekrecords.bandcamp.com/album/traitor-knee-deep-in-the-dead

Scythian - Hubris In Excelsis

https://scythiandeath.bandcamp.com/

Antiverse - Under the Regolith

https://antiverse.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-regolith

AntiPeeWee - Symphony of Doom

https://antipeewee.bandcamp.com/album/infected-by-evil

Eruption - Reborn Into Demise

https://eruptionthrash.bandcamp.com/

Mongrels Cross - From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells

https://mongrelscross666.bandcamp.com/album/psalter-of-the-royal-dragon-court

Craven Idol - Dashed to Death

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shackles-of-mammon

Perpetratör - Lethal Manhunt

https://perpetratorthrash.bandcamp.com/album/altered-beast

Vulture - Vendetta

CD: https://vulturekills.bigcartel.com/product/cds-the-guillotine

LP: https://vulturekills.bigcartel.com/product/lps-the-guillotine

Antichrist - Under the Cross

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Black Fast - Silhouette Usurper

https://blackfastband.bandcamp.com/album/spectre-of-ruin

Blackrat - Haunter of the Threshold

https://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dread-reverence

Depraver - Faustian Apex

https://depraver.bandcamp.com/album/suffering-in-the-coffin

In the years I lived in the Denver area I tried finding local bands that I would enjoy.  Metal wasn't in the scene at all.  Over the years bands have started popping up and now Colorado has, what I feel, to be a decent metal scene going on.  Most bands that I've found formed about 2006 or later, about a year after I moved away. Goes to figure.

Colorado boasts some relatively well known acts these days like Allegaeon, Khemmis, Havok, and Cephalic Carnage.  We'll look at a few of the lesser known bands making some great music.  This is by no means a complete list.  It's just a few bands I've found and enjoy.  Thank you to all the bands that let me play their music! You rock!

In order of appearance:

Green Druid

https://greendruid.bandcamp.com/album/ashen-blood-2

The Flight of Sleipnir

https://theflightofsleipnir.bandcamp.com/album/skadi

In The Company Of Serpents

https://inthecompanyofserpentsdoom.bandcamp.com/album/ain-soph-aur

Velnias

https://velnias.bandcamp.com/track/absolution

Axeslasher

https://axeslasher.bandcamp.com/track/night-of-the-shears

The Filth Chamber

http://hyperurl.co/TheFilthChamber

Inoculated Life

https://inoculatedlife.bandcamp.com/album/in-hope-of-eternal-life

Of Feather And Bone

https://offeatherandbone666.bandcamp.com/album/bestial-hymns-of-perversion

Glacial Tomb

https://glacialtomb.bandcamp.com/album/glacial-tomb

Excommunion

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thronosis

This episode was inspired by my interview with Eternal Champion.  I feel that a lot of focus is on metal bands with harsh vocals.  I wanted to focus on some great bands with clean singing like Eternal Champion.  You'll be hearing power, heavy, and doom metal along with bands that warship 70's rock.  A huge thanks to Eternal Champion for the interview!

As always support the metal underground!

In order of appearance:

Eternal Champion - The Last King of Pictdom

https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/album/the-armor-of-ire

Demon Bitch - Devil Love

https://demonbitch.bandcamp.com/album/hellfriends

Crypt Sermon - Into the Holy of Holies

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-garden

Bathsheba - The Sleepless Gods

https://bathshebakills.bandcamp.com/album/servus

Spiral Skies - Dark Side Of The Cross

https://artofpropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/blues-for-a-dying-planet

Hällas - Star Rider

https://thesignrecords.bandcamp.com/album/h-llas-excerpts-from-a-future-past

This week we start off with an interview with the creative force behind Belgium based atmospheric funeral doom band SLOW.  A huge "thank you" to Déhà and Lore for making killer music and chatting with me for a bit.

We'll also be hearing metal from Slovakia, Italy, Poland, and Finland so buckle up! 

As always, support the metal underground!

In order of appearance.

Slow - Aurore 

https://slowdooom.bandcamp.com/album/v-oceans

Malokarpatan - When a bugger kabold settles down in the farmer's household  

https://malokarpatan.bandcamp.com/album/nordkarpatenland

Vultures Vengeance - And The Wind Still Screams His Name

https://vulturesvengeance.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-time-dwelt-in

Martyrdoom - Betrayed Trust

https://martyrdoom.bandcamp.com/album/grievous-psychosis

Mörbid Vomit - Beaten From Faith

https://amzn.to/2SJsJK5

In celebration of Dark Descent's 9th anniversary this episode is focusing on the bands that played at the event that was held October 20th, 2018 at the Hi-Dive in Denver Colorado.  A thousand thanks to Matt Calvert and all the bands that where there.  This episode wouldn't have happened with out you. 

In order of appearance.

Adversarial - Old Ruins Slumber in a Crushing Hatred of Man  https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-endless-nothing-and-the-black-knife-of-nihilism

Sempiternal Dusk - Seclusion of the Bereaved 

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sempiternal-dusk

Krypts - The Withering Titan 

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-of-expansion

Cianide - The Luciferian Twilight         

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-descent-into-hell

 

Spectral Voice - Thresholds Beyond   

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eroded-corridors-of-unbeing

Blood Incantation - Chaoplasm 

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/starspawn

www.darkdescentrecords.com