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Bay Area melodic death metal act DARKNESS EVERYWHERE have released a new stand-alone digital single “The Glow Of Haunted Existence,” streaming everywhere now! Check it out HERE.
DARKNESS EVERYWHERE unites vocalist/guitarist Ben Murray (Light This City, Creator-Destructor Records), guitarist Cameron Stucky (Crepuscle), and renowned producer engineer Zack Ohren on bass. “The Glow Of Haunted Existence” follows the February 2022 release of their debut EP, The Seventh Circle. The new track was recorded by the band’s own Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, in January of 2023, with artwork by Samuel Nelson.
The glory years of early In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity are what largely inform the sound and aesthetic of DARKNESS EVERYWHERE. The core of the band is built on the feel of those legendary records, while offering a refreshing take on the no frills melodic death metal sound akin to the output of modern outfits The Black Dahlia Murder, Darkest Hour, and The Haunted. The band wastes no time in getting to the point of melodic death metal riffing and driving, thrashing tempos.
SPINEBREAKER have announced their upcoming EP
“Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition”, now set for a May 5th release! Listen to the first single “Spectral Forge” HERE.
SPINEBREAKER’s released their crushing debut LP, Ice Grave, in 2016, and in 2019 released a promo tape featuring the single “The Cost Of Innocent Life” as well as a cover of Agnostic Front’s “Power.” The band now returns in 2023 with the monstrous “Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition”, which sees the band leaning heavily into their death metal influences. The record delivers six tracks of absolute violent riffs, pummeling blastbeats, and apocalyptic overtones, recorded, mixed, and mastered by the Evil Wizard Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California (Vastum, Mortuous, Necrot), and completed with logo by Alex Herrera, artwork by Brad Moore, and layout by Rachel Deering
Creator-Destructor Records will issue “Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition” May 5th on LP, CD, Cassette, and digital formats, the first pressing of vinyl limited to 500 copies featuring two color vinyl variants and an embossed cover. Find preorders for all versions HERE
A Wilhelm Scream kicked off a few months of touring last night. The more shows in Canada, followed by two Northeast shows in NJ and their hometown of New Bedford, MA. The band then heads to Australia and New Zealand for a few weeks of dates down under.
The “Lose Your Delusion” world tour rolls on after that with a few weeks of Midwest US dates alongside Anti-Flag and the Bouncing Souls. Plenty more exciting announcements will be unveiled soon, so stay tuned!
A Wilhelm Scream continue to support their incredible 2022 full-length release, hot off the heels of a successful year of touring. While the first pressing of vinyl has been sold out for a while, the 2nd pressing is available now, so get grab yourself a copy by heading to our online store. Three different color variants, 1000pcs each made.
A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Richmond, Virginia’s BLAZING TOMB have joined Creator-Destructor Records! Their absolutely crushing debut self-titled EP is now available on 12” ‘Evergreen w/ Black Splatter” vinyl, with a screen-printed B-side. Head over to our online store to grab one now! This first pressing is limited to 250pcs, with a digital download included.
Fans of Bolt Thrower & Merauder will surely enjoy the massively heavy six tracks that comprise the band’s debut offering. BLAZING TOMB started in 2020, inspired by their favorite 90’s old school death metal bands, the band quickly finalized their lineup as a five-piece in 2021 and recorded their self-titled EP. BLAZING TOMB is currently working on a full-length release, and has plans to tour the country in 2023. If you’re in the Richmond area, catch the band on December 16th @ The Warehouse w/ Killing Pace & Downfall. They’ll have records in hand!
Stream BLAZING TOMB’s Self-Titled EP on Bandcamp HERE.
We’re thrilled to announce the “Depictions Of Chaos” EP, the upcoming release from Oakland’s DOOMSDAY, confirmed for a 11/18 release date!
DOOMSDAY is a crossover/thrash band that draws influence from the likes of Sepultura, Slayer, Iron Age, Metallica, and Power Trip, boasting a triple-guitar threat within their lineup. Formed in 2018, DOOMSDAY has previously released several singles which have been re-recorded for Depictions Of Chaos, as well as the 2022 promo tape Riff City (Slam Records) which featured an Iron Age cover.
The drums and guitars for “Depictions Of Chaos” were tracked and edited by Charles Toshio at The Panda Studios with additional vocals, guitars, and bass tracked at Nu Tone Studios by Marc Etabillo. All tracks were mastered by Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios and the EP’s cover art was created by Selena Rodriguez.
Stream the first single “Mask of Sanity” HERE!
Preorders for the Vinyl, CDs, and Merch are now live in our webstore by clicking HERE!
San Francisco-based gore metal outfit CARTILAGE has announced a Fall tour across the Western US, supporting Gruesome with additional support provided by Immortal Bird. The tour begins September 29th in Portland and ends October 15th in Sacramento. Tickets are on sale now!
Whether you call them deathgrind, goregrind, or gore metal, some things are certain: the Bay Area’s CARTILAGE bleeds in blastbeats, rips out gut-twisting riffs, and spews idiomatic viscera with delight. Spawned from original members featuring sibling duo, guitarist/vocalist Ria and vocalist Mark Wallace along with guitarist Michael Flory (Logistic Slaughter) and drummer Adam Houmam (Terrorizer LA), came one that delighted in the flesh-searing death metal that the likes of Impaled and General Surgery claim as their own.
“CARTILAGE also discharge songs that slash like serial killers, convulse in seizures, sear like an acetylene torch, maul like bulldozers, and lurch like zombies (the slow ones, not the fast ones), and as crazed and kaleidoscopic as the songs usually are, they’re cleverly embedded with hook-y melodies. and head-moving grooves.” – No Clean Singing“…the group festers this admiration into punctual death grind. They adore gore-drenched theatrics, which is obvious with song titles like “Mallet Wielding Maniac” and ‘Cellar Full Of Stiffs.’” – Heavy Music Headquarters
“…this is an album that is happy to bask in its own bile. And for added festering fun and freakish frolic of gore, then get yourself on the list for the splatter vinyl release for extra kaleidoscopic horror.” – Metal Forces
If you haven’t yet, you can order “The Deader the Better” LPs/Cassettes/Merch RIGHT HERE.
A Wilhelm Scream aren’t slowing down anytime soon on their “Lose Your Delusion” touring cycle, with the next stop being a European summer tour featuring a handful of festival appearances, some headline club shows, as well as select dates with Descendents, The Bouncing Souls, and The Flatliners! This is sure to be a banger of a tour, so don’t miss the band in your city if you live in Europe – You can get your tickets right HERE.
A Wilhelm Scream continue to support their incredible new full-length release, hot off the heels of a successful month long North American Tour. While the first pressing of vinyl has been sold out for a while, the 2nd pressing is just about ready to ship in a few weeks, so make sure to secure your copy NOW by heading to our online store HERE. Three different color variants, 1000pcs each made. Don’t miss out!
“A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Stream “Lose Your Delusion” HERE.
Preorders have been going strong for OUTTA POCKET’s crushing debut vinyl release, “Purest Pain / D.E.M.O.” on 7″ vinyl, featuring all six tracks that the band have recorded to date. We made 400 copies of the “Blood Red w/ Black Splatter” version of the 7″ available in North America through our online store, but don’t sleep! These are going very fast, and we’re already under 100 copies from being sold out. Get your copy HERE.
If you’re in Europe or the UK, our friends over at Nuclear Family Records have you covered! 100 copies on “Piss Yellow w/ Black Splatter” vinyl are available through their webstore by clickingHERE!
The Bay Area’s own OUTTA POCKET have been making waves spreading their special brand of beatdown hardcore along the west coast, including an appearance at the Creator-Destructor “2 Nights of Terror” last month. The band have two shows this weekend with labelmates in SUNAMI – Los Angeles at The Midnight Hour on 5/28, and Cupertino at the X Bar on 5/29. If you’re in California, don’t miss out on these. More OUTTA POCKET news soon!
Decibel Magazine is hosting the premiere of “I Skin You,” the latest single from San Francisco gore-grind warriors CARTILAGE and their impending second LP, The Deader The Better – Produced under the watchful eyes of Exhumed’s Matt Harvey, The Deader The Better was recorded by Alejandro Corredor (Pounder, ex-Nausea) in January 2020 at Darker Corners Studio in San Luis Obispo. The album all at once features friends, peers, and gore metal grandmasters Ross Sewage (Impaled, Exhumed), Leon del Muerte (Murder Construct, Terrorizer LA), and Tom Draper (Pounder, ex-Carcass) who all make guest appearances, sharpening CARTILAGE’s hemorrhaging stabs of grind for the masses. The Deader The Better is completed with cover art by Matt Slime, and includes a cover of Impetigo’s “Boneyard.”
With the new premiere of the LP’s “I Skin You,” the CARTILAGE faction collectively offers, “Grit your teeth and hold onto your flesh. ‘I Skin You’ is exactly what the title suggests. You can’t spell ‘degloving’ without ‘loving!’” Decibel writes in part, “‘I Skin You’ delivers all it promises — 2:45 of blast beats, sideways riffs, and horrific descriptions of human depravity.” Listen to the single HERE!
Creator-Destructor will release The Deader The Better on LP – 200 on Doublemint/Purple Swirl, 200 on Bone w/ Blood Red Splatter, and 100 on Mustard w/ Magenta Splatter – as well as cassette and digital formats on May 13th. Preorders HERE!
THE TIME HAS ARRIVED. A Wilhelm Scream’s new album “Lose Your Delusion” is OUT NOW and streaming on all platforms! So incredibly excited for you all to hear this masterpiece.
Listen to “Lose Your Delusion” HERE!
For those who missed out on the sold out first pressing of vinyl, the 2nd pressing is available now for preorder in our online store HERE.
A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Additionally, A Wilhelm Scream have recently announced a number of European/UK, and North American tour dates. Tickets are on sale now and a full listing of dates can be found HERE!
We’re thrilled to present the music video for A Wilhelm Scream’s “GIMMETHESHAKES,” the latest single from the Thursday, April 14 release of the band’s first full-length offering in nine years, Lose Your Delusion (pre-order). Another anthemic, fists-up ripper from the band’s forthcoming album.
Guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly had the following to share about the video: “Every once in a while, a rock video comes along like a subtle flowing violent whisper, that tests the limits of what is possible in this life, that stretches desperately at the very fabric strands of what it really means to be human … and what is … life? The frailty, the perseverance, the triumph and folly of existence. That makes us weep in reverence at greatness. This is not one of those videos.”
The Seventh Circle, the debut from Oakland, California melodic death metal trio, DARKNESS EVERYWHERE is officially out now! Stream the record + order LPs/CDs/Merch via Bandcamp HERE:
DARKNESS EVERYWHERE unites vocalist/guitarist/drummer Ben Murray (Light This City, Wilderness Dream), guitarist Cameron Stucky (Crepuscle), and renowned producer engineer Zack Ohren on bass.
The Seventh Circle was recorded in late 2020 at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, engineered and produced by Zack Ohren, and completed with cover artwork by Samuel Nelson. Additionally, The Seventh Circle features guest vocals from Laura Nichol (Light This City) on “Survival Of The Sun,” by Xavier (Upon Stone) on “The Seventh Circle” and by John Henry (Darkest Hour) on the “The Grand Impact.”
With the record about to be issued into the public, Stucky reveals, “The Seventh Circle is the kind of album that Ben and I have been wanting to hear for the last twenty or more years. We both are very fond of the 1990s and early-2000’s Scandinavian melo-death scene, and before we ever sat down to write songs there was a clear vision to recreate the magic of that era as best as we could. Riffs, harmonies, and straight-to-the-point song structures are the hallmarks of this record, and I can only hope that fans of the genre will be satisfied.”
A Wilhelm Scream are excited to present “Figure Eights In My Head” and “Apocalypse Porn,” two brand new songs from the Thursday, April 14 release of the band’s first full-length offering in nine years, Lose Your Delusion, following the album’s first single “Be One To No One”. The two new singles can be found on all streaming services by clicking HERE!
PREORDERS for “Lose Your Delusion” have launched in our brand new webstore, so check out all the Vinyl, CDs, Cassettes, and Merch we have to offer for the new album by clicking HERE! *Please Note: All preorders will ship on release day!*
A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Additionally, A Wilhelm Scream have recently announced a number of North American appearances beginning in March and extending into May, June, July and September. Tickets are on sale now and a full listing of dates can be found HERE!
We’re thrilled to announce a Creator-Destructor Records weekend at the X Bar in Cupertino, CA! Two nights of California’s sickest bands on April 1st and 2nd. Both shows are going to be an awesome time, so don’t miss out!
You can get your tickets now by clicking HERE! Special thanks to R’N’RG shows for helping us put this on!
Night 1 features the return of the almighty Crepuscle after two long years, and the Oakland gore-grind warriors in Cartilage’s first time at the X Bar. The first show also features Darkness Everywhere, who’s debut album will be released on February 25th, and this is their first show ever! If you haven’t heard their two singles yet, check them out HERE! Upon Stone makes their return to the X bar on the first night as well, after their crushing performance with Kruelty a few weeks back. Doomsday will surely destroy, and our friends in Mutually Assured Destruction are setting the night off right!
Night 2 marks the san jose legends Spinebreaker’s return to the X bar as well after they leveled the place late last year. Scalp continue to support their debut album “Domestic Extremity”, while Slowbleed are hot off the release of their new album “The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn”. Extinguish and Outta Pocket will bring the heaviness right off the bat. More news on OUTTA POCKET 7″ preorders soon! See you all there.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of A Wilhelm Scream’s upcoming album, “Lose Your Delusion”, out April 14th, 2022! The band’s first full-length offering in nine years – A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion finds the accomplished rock quintet at its most daring, experimental and cohesive.
“‘Lose Your Delusion’ is our most unapologetically earnest album to date,” said guitarist/songwriter Trevor Reilly. “It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
In case you missed it, “Be One To No One,” the longstanding quintet’s first song in nine years, has been unveiled via Streaming Service / YouTube! Recorded at the band’s Anchor End Studio in New Bedford, MA and produced by guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly and James Whitten, “Be One To No One” is a raucous and experimental shot of punk that squarely takes aim at anxiety, pain and self doubt. Check out the lyric video HERE!