AN NCS DEMO PREMIERE: VEIA — “TUCHULCHA / IL RITORNO DI TUCHULCHA”

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May 132025
 

(written by Islander)

Frequent visitors to our site (and other people equally intelligent and tasteful) will know the names Thecodontion and Clactonian. If you don’t know those names, you can find out why I think you should know them by plowing through the volumes of words we’ve spilled about their music (collected here and here, respectively). Both bands are the brainchildren of Italian musician G.E.F., joined with other very talented friends in each group.

Now we have another name you need to know, another brainchild of G.E.F. This one is Veia. Under the banner of Veia G.E.F. is the vocalist and lyricist, joined here by bassist extraordinaire G.D. (also from Thecodontion) and exceptionally talented people from Svart Vinter and Veil of Conspiracy on drums and guitars.

Unlike Thecodontion and Clactonian, Veia is predominantly a vehicle for black metal. The band’s members have been at work on a debut album to be entitled Vacal, and they expect the recording sessions to be completed later this year. But to help introduce Veia to listeners, G.E.F. decided to release two “raw excerpts” from the album this month through his new-ish label Prehistoric Sounds, and we have premiere streams of both songs for you today. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: DEFIANT — “LORD OF THE OPENING”

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May 122025
 

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This year the Croatian black/death metal band Defiant will commemorate their 20th year of existence with the release of their fifth album Mammon Mantra. It’s set for discharge by Satanath Records (Georgia) and InsArt Records (UK) on May 17th, and to help pave the way we’re premiering a blaspheming lyric video for the album track “Lord of the Opening“.

Mammon Mantra follows the band’s last album Insurrection Icon by about seven years, though the band helped fill that long gap with the Ways ov Damnation split with DVVAD in late 2020 and the Vanguards of Misrule EP in 2022.

The new album is described as “the closest thing that the band ever came to a concept album; it explores man’s darkest desires and corruption ever since this creature stood on its two feet, from the dawn of time to the current events.”

The song you’re about to discover is definitely a dark and devastating creation, well-suited to our current age of damnation, but it’s also a multi-faceted head-spinner of a high order. And, it features guest vocals by Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan from Venom Inc./Atomkraft. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DISEMBODIMENT — “STYGIAN OVERTURE”

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May 122025
 

(written by Islander)

WARNING: You are about to be stomped and gouged, bounced off the walls and lacerated, dragged into foul and choking cesspools and made witness to violent charnel-house abominations. Your pulse will pound, your head will move, your guts will churn. And you will smile broadly at every abuse to which you will be subjected!

These are our predictions for how addicts of foul and ferocious death metal will receive the song we’re now presenting from Spiral Crypts, the hotly anticipated debut album of Disembodiment from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, which will see release in July via Everlasting Spew Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: TURIAN — “BLOOD QUANTUM BLUES”

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May 072025
 

(written by Islander)

As you may know, No Clean Singing is a lead sponsor of Northwest Terror Fest, and its 2025 edition kicks off tomorrow in Seattle for a three-day run. It’s a stacked lineup, but one of the bands I’m most eager to see is the Seattle outfit Turian. And the timing is perfect, because they’re just a few weeks away from the release of their new album Blood Quantum Blues on Wise Blood Records.

Anyone who has followed the upward trajectory of Turian knows that they’ve never felt hemmed in by genre boundaries. Each release has seen them mixing influences together in often mind-boggling ways, and rarely in the same way. “Expect the unexpected” is good advice for going into what they’ve done so far, and an even better piece of advice in the case of Blood Quantum Blues.

But don’t take our word for it. Take the word of some of Turian‘s members: Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: GVORN — “NECROMANTIC DREAM”

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May 062025
 

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Roughly three years on from their debut album Keeper of Grief, the Russian band Gvorn will have a new EP named Lovecromancy released on May 13th by Satanath Records. It reflects a change in the band’s stylistic creativity as compared to that first full-length, a change heralded by the EP’s ghastly cover art.

While the debut of this group from Yekaterinburg included ingredients of funeral doom, they have mostly put those aside in favor of traditions of old school death/doom. But in case you assume they are merely plodding along in well-worn ruts, you will learn differently when you hear “Necromantic Dream“, the song we’re premiering today from the new EP. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: ESCHATON — “HELLFIRE’S WOE”

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May 062025
 


cover artwork by Dave Melvin

(written by Islander)

Here we have a lineup that looks mighty impressive on paper and screens. To quote from Transcending Obscurity Records:

Technical death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis, and for the bass, they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence, while Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of Flesh and Arsis continues to hold down the fort on drums.

Yes indeed, very impressive. That description might remind people (of a certain age) of a line from the movie The Dirty Dozen, in which Donald Sutherland’s pretend-general reviews ranks of well-dressed troops and comments to their commanding officer, “Very pretty, Colonel, very pretty, but can they fight?” We shall see…. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: SERPENT CORPSE — “METEOR SUMMON”

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May 052025
 

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“The Montreal band Serpent Corpse named themselves for a dead thing, and their brand of death metal does channel the stench of rot and ruin. But the great serpent brandished in their name still lives, a monstrous presence that will not be subdued, but finds an ally in death.”

That’s how we began introducing our last song premiere for Serpent Corpse two years ago, which helped pave the way for their debut album Blood Sabbath. And now we have the fiendish pleasure of premiering another Serpent Corpse song, this one from their new EP Retaliate, which will see release on June 27th via Transcending Obscurity Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: AFFLICTION VECTOR — “NERO GORGO”

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May 052025
 

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Today we have for you the second song released so far from Contra Hominem, the debut album from the Italian duo Affliction Vector that’s now set for release by Iron Bonehead Productions on June 6th.

But before we get to today’s song premiere, let’s consider the first song from the album that has already exploded into the surface world — “Ephemeral Lifeless“. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: PUTRESCENT — “SPECTRAL SANCTUM”

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May 022025
 

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The name chosen by Los Angeles based Putrescent is like a code word for aficionados of underground death metal. It sends morbid signals of ugly death and stinking decay, a foul vision of the rot that lies beyond life, and it leads us to expect music that manifests that malodorous decomposition.

But though the music of Putrescent is certainly capable of fulfilling all those expectations, it turns out to embrace darkness in savagely explosive ways as well, as you’re about to discover through our premiere of a song from their debut album — Darkness Embraced — in advance of its release on June 6th by Rotted Life Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: HIBERNUM — “BELIAL (THE LORD OF THE EARTH)”

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May 022025
 

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Hibernum arises again from the darkest depths of Croatia with its debut album Djavo set to see the shadowed light of day on May 15th in a co-release by Satanath Records (Georgia) and InsArt Records (UK).

The solo work of one Insanus, Hibernum first emerged in the early 2000s with a debut EP (Cold and Worse) divulged in 2003. Decades passed, and Hibernum surfaced again with a 2020 single that featured Knjaz (Zvijer, Sahrana) on vocals.

Now comes the Djavo album, and to help introduce it we’re premiering its second advance song, “Belial (The Lord Of The Earth)“. Continue reading »

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