Norwegian Black Metal veterans Vulture Lord are scheduled to release a new split album together with Polish Black Metal beasts Black Altar next month, with each band contributing four new tracks. The split is titled "Deathiah Manifesto", and will be released via Odium Records on the 15th of February.

While we wait, one of Vulture Lord's new songs, "Hark! The Hymns of War", has already been made available for listening. Check it out:



Black Altar already premiered one of their own tracks from the split album back in November, in the form of a music video for the track "Sacrilegious ...

Norwegian Black/Thrash veterans Vulture Lord will be releasing their second full-length album, titled "Desecration Rite", on the 20th of June through Odium Records. To give fans another taste of what they can expect, the band recently made a lyric video for the track "Stillborn Messiah", which has been uploaded to the BMP II YouTube channel:



"Desecration Rite" consists of nine new tracks, and features songwriting by the late Trondr Nefas of Urgehal fame, who passed away in 2012:


Perverting the Bible
Burning the Kingdom of God
Stillborn Messiah
Bestial Rape of Sacred Flesh
Prepare ...

Polish Black Metal band Crepusculum have just released their second full length album, titled "Illuminatus". The album was released through Polish label Odium Records, who also handled the release of Crepusculum's 2010 debut, "Visions of the Apocalypse".

The track list for "Illuminatus" is the following:


Nox Ritualum
The Realm of Condemnation
Via Sinistra
Where Nightmare Prevails
Illuminatus
Underneath the Storm-Drenched Land of the Arimoi
Xepera-Xeper-Xeperu
Katabasis
Become Their Tomb


Recently the label made the song "Via Sinistra" available for streaming online at ...

Italian Black Metal band Ars Macabra have just released their third full length album today. The new album is simply titled "III", following the band's 2007 album, "Hate Induced Trance".

The tracklist for "III" is as follows:


Cursed Paradigm
Fire of Seraphim
Cerum Luciferi
Illuminati
Ubique Daemon Ubique Deus
Panpsychic Khaos
Deneb (Alpha Cygni)
Thanatos Projection
Manifestation of the Curse
With Fires of Titan


"III" has been released through Polish label Odium Records, and the label has made two of the album's songs available for streaming online at their official ...