CRAVING Featured in Danish TV Commercial

German melodic death/black metal band CRAVING are being featured in a TV commercial for Samsung Galaxy S5 on Danish television. The spot is scheduled to run for the next three weeks and features the band's cover of "Only Teardrops" by Emmelie de Forest. 

Watch the ad at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qty-ruVmt8

Since 2006, CRAVING has masterfully blended black and death metal with soaring melodies and folk influences. In October of last year, Apostasy Records released the band's sophomore album, At Dawn. With lyrics written in German, Russian and English and a noticeable progression from their 2012 debut, At Dawn stands as one of the most intriguing and varied records in recent memory. Guest appearances on At Dawn include Helge Stang (Ex-Equilibrium),Chris Caffery (Ex-Savatage),  Niels Löffler (Ordan Ogan) and Agalaz (Obscurity). The official music video for CRAVING's cover of "Only Teardrops" can be seen at this location.

For information on purchasing At Dawn visit:

www.apostasyrecords.com

www.cravingmetal.de

BURIAL VAULT Releases Official Video for "Awareness"

Northern German Melodic Death Metal band BURIAL VAULT has just released the official video for the song "Awareness." The song is taken from their most recent offering,  Incendium, a Ray Bradbury-inspired concept album which was released last year on Apostasy Records. The video combines a live-performance by the band with scenes that directly refer to the lyrics.

Check out the video at this location. 

The follow up to the critically-acclaimed Ekpyrosis (Periodic Destruction), Incendium is a conceptual piece inspired by Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." With this album, the band developed a concept that embodies a metamorphosis of a human in an inconvenient future both on musical as on textual level. 

This dynamic and diverse album reaches from acoustic passages to eruptions of Black Metal blast-beats and slow Death Metal attacks. Inendium was recorded at Soundlodge Studios by Jorg Uken (God Dethroned, Dew-Scented, Defeated Sanity) and features artwork from Ben Borucki, (Agathodaimon, Suicide Silence). 

Incendium is available now worldwide. Visit www.apostasyrecords.com to order. 

Burial Vault was founded in 2006. The musical direction can be described as Melodic Death Metal spiced with Black Metal, Thrash Metal and some progressive influences.The band refers to many different atmospheres and topics within their music. Abysses of humanity and history are the lyrical background of their tunes which have a great balance between brutal, melodic and atmospheric parts. Burial Vault has made appearances at "Legacyfest 2009" and "Metalfest Germany 2010" and has shared stages with the likes of Drone, Jack Slater, Lay Down Rotten, Cripper, Torture Squad and Sinister (o.a.). After two EPs: - There Is No Resort and Come To Grief - Burial Vault released their full-length debut, Ekpyrosis (Periodic Destruction), on Apostasy Records in 2012. A year later the band returns with Incendium.  www.facebook.com/burialvaultband  www.apostasyrecords.com

LAY DOWN ROTTEN Posts Title Track from "Deathspell Cathrasis"

German death machine LAY DOWN ROTTEN has debuted the title track for their upcoming Apostasy Records release, Deathspell Catharsis. 

The follow up to 2012's Mask of Malice, Deathspell Catharsis sees the death metal veterans firing on all cylinders. Metal-Temple.com rated the album 10/10, calling it a "must hear" for DM fans. Get a taste of this masterpiece for yourself now with the debut of the title track at www.soundcloud.com/apostasy-records/lay-down-rotten-deathspell.

This bulldozer of an album will be released on January 24th 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, January 27th 2014 in the UK and the rest of Europe and on February 11th 2014 in North America. It will take no prisoners.

For nearly 15 years,  LAY DOWN ROTTEN has stood for energetic top-notch Death Metal. Their haunting live-shows at festivals like With Full Force, Rock Harz, Extremefest, Death Feast and Summer Breeze, and shows alongside the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Bolt Thrower and Aborted have always grabbed the audience by the balls.

Albums like Breeding Insanity (Remission Records), Gospel Of The Wretched (Metal Blade Records) and last year's Mask Of Malice (Metal Blade Records) have been well-received within the whole scene and the press. Now, it is time for the first sign of life from the band via their new label-home Apostasy Records!

Deathspell Catharsis is the name of the new output which was once again produced by the band's confidant Thilo Krieger in his Desert Inn Studio. The new album will definitely prove their status and the great artwork by Toshihiro Egewa (Cryptopsy, Defeated Sanity, Krisiun and many more) totally accompanies that impression.

www.laydownrotten.com

www.facebook.com/laydownrotten

DEADBORN Release Video for "Insane Motor Cortex"

German death metal unit DEADBORN, who feature in their ranks former members of NECROPHAGIST, have uploaded a new video for the track "Insane Motor Cortex," which comes off the band's sophomore album, Mayhem Maniac Machine. 

Released in April of last year on Apostasy Records features intelligent arrangements that alternate between blast attacks and driving rhythms, combined with brilliant melodies and groovy elements. The album was engineered, mixed and mastered with producer Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios (Necrophagist, Dead Eyed Sleeper, etc). The songwriting and production match the best tech-death of the 90s with the modern sounds of today.

Watch the video for "Insane Motor Cortex" at this location.

"A varied and sometimes even catchy, yet highly technical and brutal album, Mayhem Maniac Machine is probably the strongest death metal album of the year so far." 

-  EMP, Germany

"In thirty-five minutes, the beast bursts from the depths, feeds, shits, and burrows again toward its uneasy slumber. Until you push play again." - Chronicles of Chaos

www.deadborn.de

DEADBORN on Facebook

www.myspace.com/deadborn666

www.apostasyrecords.com

OVERTORTURE Announce German Tour

Swedish death metal brutes OVERTORTURE will invade Germany next week for a series of shows dubbed the "At the End the Dead Await Tour 2013." The action kicks off on September 7th in Mannheim with FLESHCRAWL, REVEL IN FLESH and RAW. 

OVERTORTURE - At the End the Dead Await Tour 2013: 

9/07 @ 7er Club - Mannheim, Ger. w/ Fleshcrawl, Revel In Flesh & RAW

9/08 @ Steinbruch Theater - Darmstadt, Ger. w/ Nile, Ex-Deo & Svart Crown 

9/09 @ Bastard Club - Osnabrück, Ger. w/ Embedded & Burial Vault

9/10 @ TBA - SHOW WANTED!  

9/11 @ Alte Zuckerfabrik - Rostock, Ger. w/ Armagenda & Dystopia

9/12 @ Cocktailbar im KUZ OHZ - Osterholz Scharmbeck, Ger. 

9/13 @ Morbide Festspiele 15 - Bischofswerda, Ger. w/ Defeated Sanity & Disinter

9/14 @ Schlachtfest XII, Aurich, Ger. w/ Nailed To Obscurity, Krow & Epitome 

OVERTORTURE released their debut, At the End the Dead Await, to critical acclaim in January of this year via Apostasy Records. Selections from the record and ordering information can be found at www.apostasyrecords.com. 

Featuring veteran players from GRAVE, COLDWORKER, DEMONICAL, and INSISION, it will come as no surprise that with At the End the Dead Await OVERTORTURE has created a work of overwhelming brutality, tempered only by a penchant for melody. Self-produced by the band and mixed/mastered by Ola Englund (SIX FEET UNDER), the album is made complete with the artwork of Gustav Germann (Guger Art) who has also worked with HAIL OF BULLETS and VOMITORY. Recommended for fans of BLOODBATH, GRAVE, VOMITORY, and BOLT THROWER

"Overtorture displays a lot more than most death metal bands coming out these days."

 - Wicked Channel

"These dudes kill the mid-tempo death metal style, but also tear it up with some well dropped blasts.  This record combines a nice mix of old school Swedish death with some new school slamming and some proper slow doom parts.  The end result is a grooving piece of death metal for modern metalheads and old schoolers alike to rip to pieces." 

- November 24th Spawned A Monster

"...At the End the Dead Await is worth hearing if you're a fanatic for old bands like Grave and Seance, or more recent devotees like Feral, Mr. Death, Entrails, Corpsessed, etc."

- From the Dust Returned 

www.overtorture.se 

www.facebook.com/Overtorture

www.apostasyrecords.com

German Death Metallers SPHERON Reveal Cover Art and Release Date for Debut Album

On July 5, 2013 the long-awaited debut album Ecstasy of God from Ludwigshafen, Germany-based technical death metallers SPHERON will be out on Apostasy Records. 

This challenging and absorbing album was produced together with Christoph Brandes at the Iguana Studios (e.g. Necrophagist, Deadborn, Imperium Dekadenz, etc.). The breathtaking cover artwork was painted by no other than the famous artist Eliran Kantor who has already worked with bands like Testament, Hatebreed, Sodom and Atheist. 

Album track "Saturnian Satellites" is streaming at this location.

01. A Means To an End

02. The Beheaded Coachman

03. Prestige of the Mortals

04. Saturnian Satellites

05. Clasp the Thorns

06. Prelude to the Misery

07. Five Degrees

08. Pulse of Instinct

09. Tragedy of the Clerics

10. Choking on Incense

11. Anthropogenic

12. From Glint to Crackling

www.facebook.com/spheronmusic

www.apostasyrecords.com

BURIAL VAULT - GunShyAssassin.com Host Premier of "The Nightly Horror"

German Melodic Death Metal band BURIAL VAULT and Apostasy Records have hooked up with GunShyAssassin.com for the exclusive premier of "The Nightly Horror," off of the band's forthcoming album, Incendium.

To stream "The Nightly Horror" ahead of the album's May 24th release via Apostasy Records, visit this location. 

The album is designed as a closed concept which is heavily inspired by parts of the classic dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. Here, the quintet uses both the music as well as the texts as a medium to tell the transformation of a man in a near future from a blind follower to a critical opponent in four action-packed chapters.

Recorded at the Soundlodge Studio with producer Joerg Uken (Dew-Scented, Nightfall, God Dethroned a.o.) the listeners get melodic Death Metal with appropriate technical and progressive influences and also subtle Black Metal-esque and acoustic moments.

A lyric video for the song "Catharsis" is now playing at this location. 

Chapter I:

01. The Stench Of Burning Thoughts

02. A Blind Follower And A Watchful Hound 

Chapter II:

03. Soil & Green

04. Peculiar

05. The Nightly Horror

06. Prelude To Peripety

07. Fatal Accident 

Chapter III:

08. Struggling Doubt

09. Moment Of Truth

10. Awareness 

Chapter IV:

11. Surveillance Web

12. Catharsis

13. Black Into White

Burial Vault was founded in 2006. The musical direction can be described as Melodic Death Metal spiced with Black Metal, Thrash Metal and some progressive influences.The band refers to many different atmospheres and topics within their music. Abysses of humanity and history are the lyrical background of their tunes which have a great balance between brutal, melodic and atmospheric parts. Burial Vault has made appearances at "Legacyfest 2009" and "Metalfest Germany 2010" and has shared stages with the likes of Drone, Jack Slater, Lay Down Rotten, Cripper, Torture Squad and Sinister (o.a.). After two EPs: - There Is No Resort and Come To Grief - Burial Vault released their full-length debut, Ekpyrosis (Periodic Destruction), on Apostasy Records in 2012. A year later the band returns with Incendium.  www.facebook.com/burialvaultband  www.apostasyrecords.com