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

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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 »

AN NCS PREMIERE: CHAMBER OF MIRRORS — “SOUL OF SORROW”

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May 012025
 

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For this premiere it’s probably best to cut to the chase and then come back and fill in necessary details.

What you’re about to hear is a non-stop storm of wholly engulfing sound, so typhonic in its power and intensity, and so fiery and furious, that it’s guaranteed to get listeners’ blood racing and lungs pumping hard.

Though it flies fast in its combination of gale-force and incendiary intensity, it is also more elaborate than you might be expecting from that preceding paragraph, and so it’s a head-spinner as well as a breath-taker — and it proves to be spellbinding too. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DÉTRESSE — “DIE RUHE TRÄGT”

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May 012025
 

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The names of the people in Détresse should draw attention among ardent listeners of black metal whose appreciation for the art goes much deeper than merely skimming the big names at the surface:

Guitars + vocals: S.P. (Lebenssucht, Einst)
Bass: C.S. (Gevurah – live)
Drums: L.S. (Anomalie)

Well, initials rather than names, but with a bit of searching you can learn who they are. What these three have done together from their locations in Austria and Québec is manifested in a debut Détresse album named Pessimismes that will be released by Vendetta Records on May 17th. The words offered in preview on behalf of the label are worth sharing: Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: PROPHETIC SUFFERING — “FOUL”

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Apr 302025
 

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Here’s part of how the Sentient Ruin label attempts to prepare its victims listeners for Rivalry of Thy Self, the debut album of Prophetic Suffering:

We’re extremely proud to announce the sanguinary return of Edmonton-based bestial death metal sadists Prophetic Suffering. In under a half hour the Canadian horde bring forth a violent and dark monstrosity forged by an abysmal convergence between Blasphemy’s war-torn black metal terror with the gruesome and gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like The Bleeding and Tomb of the Mutilated.

But wait, there’s more: Continue reading »

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