Today, in cooperation with Blood Harvest Records we are proudly present the new single 'Suffer Minutiae' of the Australia's CONTAMINATED upcoming second full-length album Celebratory Beheading, out on February 9th 2024.

Back in 2017, CONTAMINATED announced their arrival - loudly, sickly - onto the international death metal map with their debut album, Final Man, via Blood Harvest. Graced with disturbingly detailed cover art, the Australians approximated the vivid visuals with ichor-dripping death metal of a most diseased & disgusting hue. At every angle and across every moment, Final Man spewed filth; song titles like 'Mired in Shit,' 'Boneless Mass,' and 'Co-Opted Into Worthless Sludge' soundly proved that content met form. A couple years later, a split 7" with comrades Kutabare followed, after which CONTAMINATED were quiet on the recording front. But alas, earlier this spring, a split 7" with long-running sludge-lords Fistula arrived.

Still, two songs in the past six years is criminal, but CONTAMINATED make up for that quietude with their long-awaited second album, Celebratory Beheading. Upping the disgusting stakes yet again with its cover art, Celebratory Beheading literally explodes into being, blasting its filth fast and free before bringing in stomping-yet-angular breakdowns and a whole host of gut-churning intensity. In many ways, Celebratory Beheading's clearly-framed cover mirrors CONTAMINATED's sonic shift; whereas Final Man roamed within a malodorous murk, the Aussies' second full-length sharpens their attack with frightening efficiency. Nevertheless, the latent sensations from that rancid debut remain - rippling disgust, bottomless decay, slipstreaming vomit - only that, now, they're rendered in impossibly powerful tones. Rarely has a deathgrinding record sounded this plausibly professional whilst retaining an authentically underground vibe.

CONTAMINATED is:

Lachlan McPherson - guitars
Matthew Johnson - guitars
Mark Boulton - vocals
Christoph Winkler - drums
Nick Warren - bass

MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS:

https://www.facebook.com/pestilentialdecay
https://pestilentialdecay.bandcamp.com/
https://www.bloodharvest.se/
https://www.facebook.com/BloodHarvestRecords
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/

Hailing from Adelaide, Australia's CHARNEL ALTAR formed in late 2018 and after band's self-titled debut demo and split EP with fellow Aussies Carcinoid, CHARNEL ALTAR make their full-length debut with the slimy 'n' stultifying Abatement Of The Sun. Horrific and harrowing, churning and gestating with utter dread and doom, CHARNEL ALTAR's death metal is like a slo-mo melting of mind and matter. One could arguably qualify it as death-doom, but the band's version of such evades easy categorization and aims more for hovering tension and paradoxically spacious density - indeed, like old(er)-school death metal dragged through tar but trudging forward like a tank.

Today, together with Blood Harvest Records, we are proud to premiere a new track, 'Malefic Blessings' from CHARNEL ALTAR's highly anticipated debut album, Abatement Of The Sun, that will come out on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. The CD and tape versions will be released on December 17th while the vinyl version will follow next year.

CHARNEL ALTAR is:

DB - Guitars
VO - Drums, Vocals
DM – Bass, Vocals

MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS:

https://www.facebook.com/charnelaltar
https://charnelaltar.bandcamp.com/
https://www.bloodharvest.se/
https://www.facebook.com/BloodHarvestRecords/
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/