AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BONE EATER — “PARASITES OF DEAD EARTH”

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Sep 152026
 

(written by Islander)

Bone Eater is a New Brunswick-based death/doom/sludge unit, led as a solo outing by the multi-instrumentalist Scott Miller. Formed in 2021, it takes its name from a worm that bores into the bones of rotting whale carcasses to feed off of them.

Bone Eater released its debut EP MMXXII in 2022. And now, on September 18th, Bone Eater will release its second EP, MMXXVI. This one will be compiled with the debut release and put out via Ancient Temple Recordings and Phage Tapes on vinyl and CD, and through Doomshire Tapes and Crypt Death Mortuary on tape.

The new EP is a two-song offering, but it’s a substantial one, with each song reaching beyond the 10-minute mark. The EP is also a devastating, take-no-prisoners destroyer, as you’ll begin to discover through our video premiere of its first song, “Parasites of Dead Earth“. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: ORBITA — “NÈKYIA”

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Sep 152026
 

(written by Islander)

The porous “rule” in our site’s title is about to have another hole punched in it, a very big hole that will leave it bleeding. Which is to say that the vocals in the song we’re about to premiere include naught but singing — though the singing soars to shattering heights of anguish and agony, much as the song as a whole does.

The name of the song is “Nèkyia“, and it’s from the debut album of the Italian band Orbita, which is set for international release on October 9th by Aural Music. The album’s title could easily stand in for the moods of the song — Farewell to All We’ve Lost. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: URISK — “THE HAULED AND THE WAIF”

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Sep 142026
 

(written by Islander)

Urisk are a black metal duo from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2023 by Benedikt Brixius and Marleen Bügener. They have very specific and heart-felt inspirations, which we’ll get to momentarily, and they’ve wasted no time in musically expressing them: Following a debut demo released in the fall of 2024, they released a debut album named Shrivelling Lights in 2025, and a second demo at the end of that same year.

Those were independent releases, but Urisk have now partnered with Vendetta Records for the release of their second album on October 2nd. Its name is CALL, and today we’re premiering a lyric video for its first and only single in advance of the album drop. The name of this song is “The Hauled and the Waif“. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: CRYPTORIUM — “REVOLTING OBSESSION”

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Sep 142026
 

(written by Islander)

It’s so nice to begin a new week at NCS by installing a piece of hellishly eye-catching cover art at the top of the page. We have an intricate layout of skull-headed abominations that seem to be feeding on their own intestines, plus spikes, tendrils, and a ghastly glowing light that signifies worse things might lie ahead. We bow in the direction of the artist Slimeweaver for creating such a ghoulish delight.

Even better, the album that the artwork adorns is itself a ghoulish delight, one that will hold special appeal for fans of deathless Swedish death metal, the cemetery spawn of such bands as Dismember, Entombed, Carnage, and Grave. That album will lead listeners Through The Bowels Of Ceaseless Dissonance, and our fiendish guides are the Swedish band Cryptorium.

What we have for you today is the premiere of a song called “Revolting Obsession” in advance of the October 30 album release by Transcending Obscurity Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: NIGHT HAG — “DROWNED IN DEATH”

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Sep 112026
 

(written by Islander)

Over the last five years we’ve paid close attention to the horrid ambitions of the Virginia-based death-doom band Night Hag, beginning with a feature about music from their then-forthcoming 2022 debut album Phantasmal Scourge, following that with an interview after the album’s release, continuing with a premiere of their full-length 2023 split with Italy’s Burial, and now forging ahead with yet another premiere.

The subject of today’s musical revelation is a song named “Drowned In Death“, which is off Night Hag’s fearfully anticipated second album Great Dismal Darkness, which will be released on October 16th by the Rotted Life label.

As some might say, this isn’t a song for the faint of heart, but you’re not faint-hearted or you wouldn’t be here! Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: IN OBSCURITY REVEALED — “CONSECRATED BY ROT”

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Sep 112026
 

(written by Islander)

Musically, the Mexico City death metal band In Obscurity Revealed know themselves very well. They know what inspires them, they know what they do best, and they clearly will not be diverted from their maniacally barbarous mission by trends within “modern metal” that pull this way or that. They named their new album Caustic Maelstrom, and that’s no lie.

Even a decade ago when they released their debut EP Grim Fumes of Revelation, they opened our bleery eyes wide. We wrote then:

The massive grinding riffs hit with merciless force, the turbocharged drumming puts a jolt of adrenaline into the bloodstream, and the needling guitar leads are pure poison. Add in some convincingly ghastly vocals and you have a riveting explosion of sulfurous death metal that’s heavy as hell and highly addictive.

And of course In Obscurity Revealed were just getting started. Their debut album Glorious Impurity followed in 2018 along with a couple of shorter releases, and now, at last, their accurately-titled second full-length will be released by the band’s new label Personal Records on October 9th. To help pave the way, today we’re premiering its second single. As you’ll discover, it’s well-named too: “Consecrated By Rot“. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): HKSPK — “HEIMKEHR”

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Sep 102026
 

(written by Islander)

Because some people seem to value our daily premieres, they offer many opportunities for this listener/writer to both re-connect with bands we’ve learned to admire and to connect for the first time with others whose music is a new discovery.

Today we make one of those first connections by premiering a new album named Heimkehr by the German band HKSPK. This isn’t HKSPK’s first release — it was preceded by their 2024 Holy Scum debut album and their 2025 EP The Human Butcher — but it’s the first exposure we’ve had to their music.

That exposure has made an eye-opening impression, and we are glad for the chance to now share the whole album with you in advance of its release tomorrow (September 11th). Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SHRINEBURNER — “HYMNS OF DESPAIR”

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Sep 092026
 

(written by Islander)

Hymns of Despair is the entirely fitting name of the debut album from Chicago-based Shrineburner. Press materials we’ve received describe the music as “earthquake-inducing”, and as “a sonic glacier of abyssal doom/sludge metal infused with fringes of psychedelic, cosmic, blackened elements”. As you will soon discover through our full streaming premiere of these six hymns in advance of Friday’s release date, those descriptions are also entirely fitting.

But of course we have slab of our own descriptions to drop on you. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): BOCC — “DEMOLARIUM”

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Sep 082026
 

(written by Islander)

Earlier today we published Comrade Aleks’ interview of guitarist/vocalist Emilio from the Barcelona metal band Bocc, the spur for that being the imminent release by Night Terrors Records of Bocc’s second full-length, Demolarium. And now, following quickly on the heels of that interview, we’re premiering a full stream of the album.

The interview provides informative background for what you’re about to hear. Among other things, it explains the meaning of the band’s name, describes the influences and intentions for their music, identifies a change in their composition process for the next album based on a change in the lineup, delves into their largely live recording of the album as a band, and discusses the themes explored by the Catalan lyrics of their songs.

We’ll interweave some of that dialogue into our introduction to the album stream, but of course our main focus now is the experience of the music itself. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): EPITAPHE — “III”

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Sep 072026
 

(written by Islander)

The French progressive death metal band Epitaphe have chosen simple Roman numerals as the sole titles for their albums, an interesting choice because their music is far from simple. One of our writers summed up their debut I as “an eclectic, avant-garde combination of quite intellectual death metal with doom-death shades”, and we wrote that in an immense song from their second album II “their richly layered maneuvers are intricate and crafted with care, but all contribute to an overarching impact, guiding the listener with a sure hand through changing moods of fear and despair, longing and grief, turbulence and collapse, and ultimately ushering us into a haunting dream”.

And now Epitaphe are returning with their third album, III, which will be released on September 11th by Aesthetic Death and Gurgling Gore and which we’re premiering in full today. The labels’ press materials preview it in these words: Continue reading »

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