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2019 news from Imperative PR

  • Gorevent

    Gorevent prepare to release Fate

    December 16, 2019

    Gorevent are the kings of Japanese brutal slam death, ruling over their scene with a succession of battering releases since they seized power with their crushing debut Abnormal Exaggeration in 2008. Teeth Of The Divine hailed that debut offering of relentless, rancid riffing as exemplifying the art of brutality; proclaiming that...
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  • Inverted Matter

    Inverted Matter prepare to release Detach

    November 06, 2019

    Exploding from the darkness of the underground come Inverted Matter, a potent new force in death metal with a debut album of shocking intensity and monstrous power. Detach features nine finely crafted songs that bind together furious brutality, crushing heaviness, absorbing atmosphere...
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  • The Medea Project

    The Medea Project join Imperative Management

    October 09, 2019

    We’re very pleased to welcome to our management roster the The Medea Project – a truly unique musical entity, whose sound is carved from the darkness and draped in the essence of heartache and nightmares. Originally formed on the east coast of South Africa, the concept of The Medea Project...
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  • Plague Pit

    Plague Pit release Labyrinthine

    October 03, 2019

    Less than a year after the release of their full length debut album, Topheth Ablaze, the faceless fiends of Plague Pit have returned. This time they bring with them a four track EP of unspeakable horrors, a collection of songs that hunger for your soul, whose malice and bitter hatred radiates from every note...
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  • Purulent Necrosis

    Purulent Necrosis prepare to release Cadaverized Humanity

    September 10, 2019

    Rebranded to reflect the increasingly disturbing and disgustingly heavy nature of their music, Cranial Bleeding have now morphed into the twisted Purulent Necrosis – and Purulent Necrosis are ready to unveil their terrifying debut album...
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  • And Now The Owls Are Smiling

    And Now The Owls Are Smiling prepare to release The Comforting Grip Of Misery

    September 02, 2019

    Since the earliest days of And Now The Owls Are Smiling, this unique musical entity has captured the essence of the Norfolk countryside and explored the chambers of a heart awash with melancholy; the two elements bound together in a curious beauty...
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  • Arx Atrata

    Arx Atrata prepare to release The Path Untravelled

    August 27, 2019

    Three years on from Spiritus In Terra, an album of intoxicating sounds and colours that Terrorizer magazine branded “an absolute delight”, Arx Atrata have returned. The window onto wonder has been flung open once more and we are invited to gaze again upon the ancient cliff tops, the endless sea, the woods at sunset and the shadowed tor...
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  • Sathamel

    Sathamel join Imperative Management

    August 19, 2019

    Imperative PR are proud to announce that the lords of northern darkness, Sathamel, are now part of our management roster. The band bring with them an intimidating aura of blood, fire and darkness and the sound of warfare and black incantations – an undeniable, inherent power...
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  • The Colony

    The Colony prepare to release Smoke And Mirrors

    August 15, 2019

    With so many bands constantly clamouring for your attention, with barely time to take a breath between the arrival of each ‘next big thing’, it’s a wonderful feeling to discover a band whose songs seem to be speaking only to you. Since they first began, more than a decade ago, The Colony have been working to make things personal again...
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  • NecroticGoreBeast

    NecroticGoreBeast prepare to release NecroticGoreBeast

    August 14, 2019

    Born in the ever fertile Quebec underground music scene, the bastard offspring of members of Bookake, Soiled By Blood and The Outborn, NecroticGoreBeast are possibly the heaviest entity to ever emerge from the Canadian city. The sheer brutality...
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  • Grevia

    Grevia prepare to release Misophonic

    August 05, 2019

    Misophonia, the disorder sometimes known as ‘sound rage’, produces a flood of negative thoughts and emotions, sometimes even extreme, violent reactions in sufferers when they are exposed to certain sounds. In our modern world silence is so, so hard to come by; the stream of vacuous nonsense, poisonous greed...
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  • Horrific Demise

    Horrific Demise prepare to release Excruciating Extermination

    July 25, 2019

    Horrific Demise began as the germ of an idea, floating in the darkness of Matt Bishop’s twisted imagination, back in 2005. It gestated in the shadows, growing throughout Matt’s ten years in the ranks of legendary overlords of the obscene and extreme, Lividity. It waited, feeding on a steady diet of sick riffs and sicker thoughts...
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  • Formicarius

    Formicarius prepare to release Rending The Veil Of Flesh

    July 19, 2019

    They stepped from the shadows in 2014, confident in their abilities from the start. Formicarius immediately began burning their path towards the black metal throne, unhindered by false modesty they refused to ‘know their place’. Their first single, Lake of The Dead, sent shockwaves through the scene...
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  • Solitary

    Solitary prepare to release XXV

    July 16, 2019

    Twenty five years of staring down the barrel with gritted teeth and refusing to compromise. Twenty five years of die hard defiance and unbroken dedication to the cause. Twenty five years of thrash metal, all crystallised on one neck-breaking EP. This is Solitary. This is XXV... Since they first sold their souls to the gods of thrash in the summer of ’94 Solitary have remained resolute and relentless...
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  • Strappado

    Strappado prepare to release Exigit Sincerae Devotionis Affectus

    July 06, 2019

    From the stygian gloom of the darkest recesses of the underground to the forefront of your nightmares – Strappado have arrived with an album overflowing with complex cruelties and twisted terrors. Exigit Sincerae Devotionis Affectus is an outpouring of Strappado’s unending obsession with the sordid ground where mankind’s ingenuity and perversity meet...
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  • Consecration

    Consecration prepare to release Fragilium

    June 12, 2019

    Following in the wake of their monolithic career retrospective collection, Remembrance, Consecration have returned once more from the cold silence. They bring with them an album of towering, decaying grandeur and soul-rending sorrow that will transport you to dark and empty places; desolate places, that lie in shadow...
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  • Stench Of Profit

    Stench Of Profit release Human Discount

    June 05, 2019

    Formed in 2014, Stench Of Profit was born from rage against the corporate machine, a desire to scream back at the faceless entities that are accelerating our race into oblivion; that and an overwhelming, irresistible need to grind. Taking their name from a classic track on Brutal Truth’s genre defining Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses...
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  • Putrified J

    Putrified J prepare to release The Deep End Of Horror

    May 29, 2019

    After a decade of sickness and savagery Putrified J have become even more relentless in their pursuit of the ultimate in utter brutality. They are about to celebrate their 10th Anniversary with the release of a brand new EP that dreams of the absolute regression of the human species to its base need to kill and destroy...
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  • The Meads Of Asphodel

    The Meads Of Asphodel prepare to release Running Out Of Time Doing Nothing

    May 20, 2019

    It has been six years since The Meads Of Asphodel released a full length album, in the grim form of the chilling Sonderkommando. While a flurry of EPs, split releases and compilations have kept the fans’ hunger sated, it is only now that the brightly garbed, harlequin jesters in the court of the black metal kings have set loose their creative spirits...
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  • Tyrmfar

    Tyrmfar prepare to release Renewal Through Purification

    May 13, 2019

    Once more Tyrmfar are descending from their mountain stronghold, bringing with them the apocalyptic thunder of new album Renewal Through Purification. Like dark gods dispensing justice on a failing world they will unleash their staggering death metal onslaught, shrouded in a cloak of the blackest atmosphere...
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  • Solitary Bloodstock

    Solitary celebrate their 25th Anniversary with Bloodstock appearance

    April 23, 2019

    2019 marks the 25th Anniversary of the day that Solitary pledged their undying loyalty to the thrash metal cause. It’s been a journey of exhilarating highs and crushing lows and what better way to celebrate their ironclad resilience than with a first appearance at the UK’s greatest all-metal festival – BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR! Solitary will be appearing on Sunday August 11th on the SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE...
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  • Pythia

    Pythia prepare to release The Solace Of Ancient Earth

    April 15, 2019

    The world we have created for ourselves can be a cold and empty place; its endless shades of grey bleaching the colour from our dreams and its grinding monotony imprisoning our souls. We have never needed those who can break our chains and show us the way to other worlds more, torchbearers whose imaginations burn brightly in the darkness. Pythia are storytellers, dreamweavers and cage breakers ...
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  • Depraved Murder

    Depraved Murder prepare to release Manifestation

    April 09, 2019

    Rising once more from the rancid morass of the Indonesian brutal death metal scene, Depraved Murder have returned with nine new perverse psalms in praise of the black angels of annihilation. While some live in fear of death and others face it with quiet acceptance, Depraved Murder revel in the possibilities it brings for cruelty...
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  • Final Coil

    Final Coil prepare to release The World We Left Behind For Others

    March 15, 2019

    It’s now nearly two years since the release of Final Coil’s remarkable debut album, Persistence Of Memory and the time approaches to open the next chapter in the band’s story. This spring, through label WormHoleDeath, Final Coil will release their second album; a breathtaking concept album...
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  • Body Harvest

    Body Harvest prepare to release Parasitic Slavery

    March 14, 2019

    Finally, the new album from violent death metal machine Body Harvest is ready to be unleashed! Hellish visions of alternate realities, where humanity is enslaved and slaughtered, consumed by ravenous beasts, the endless screams echoing through the dark tunnels of the harvesting chambers; Parasitic Slavery brings this nightmare scenario to bloody, brutal life...
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  • Embludgeonment

    Embludgeonment prepare to release Barn Burner

    February 20, 2019

    Some bands are meant to lead not follow, some bands set their own rules and follow their own path, creating the music that they want to hear, regardless of the whims and trends of the scene; New Jersey’s Embludgeonment are one such band. Brutal beyond belief and death metal without question...
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  • Perversor

    Perversor prepare to release Umbravorous

    February 08, 2019

    Perversor are unflinchingly dedicated to the true sound of underground metal. Since they began back in 2007 they have remained steadfast and resolute in their pursuit of the dark magic that infused the great records that ushered in a new age of darkness in the early ‘80s; the likes of I.N.R.I., The Return Of Darkness And Evil, In The Sign Of Evil and Apocalyptic Raids...
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  • Foul Body Autopsy

    Foul Body Autopsy prepare to release The Unquiet Dead

    February 04, 2019

    Join us as we travel back to the post apocalyptic world of Foul Body Autopsy! Last year Tom Reynolds, the man behind the Foul Body Autopsy name, took us on a violent adventure through a zombie infested world with the George A. Romero inspired concept album, This Machine Kills Zombies. Now, the man described by Angry Metal Guy as, ‘a fucking riff machine’ invites us to return to the kingdom of the undead...
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  • fetal Bleeding

    Fetal Bleeding release The Quest Of Immortality

    January 24, 2019

    More than five years since the release of their debut EP, Basa, Basi, Busuk, Indonesia’s Fetal Bleeding have returned with their first full length album; a collection of songs steeped in darkness and drenched in direst cruelty. The Quest Of Immortality summons up images of secret cults, rituals of blood...
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  • ORO

    ORO prepare to release Djupets Kall

    January 21, 2019

    From the Swedish city of Örebro, surrounded by forests, in the shadows of the Kilsbergen mountains come ORO; armed with a debut album that will sweep you down into the depths of darkness and lay your heart bare to the cold anguish of memory. Constructed from vast riffs and aching intimacy, the songs that make up Djupets Kall offer a staggering listening experience...
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  • The Colony

    Osmed release Territory Of Warfare

    January 18, 2019

    Followers of the Indonesian brutal death metal scene have been waiting impatiently for the debut full length album from Jakarta’s Osmed. Their first EP, Ultimate Realms Of Ruination, hit like a nuclear warhead when it landed in 2015 – blasting its way straight into No Clean Singing’s top 15 EP releases of the year. The band teased fans with a two track promo CD in 2017 that hinted at even more unbridled savagery...
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  • The Colony

    The Colony join Imperative Management

    January 18, 2019

    Today we are proud to welcome to the Imperative PR ranks The Colony, a band who possess all the attributes required to take the metal world by storm. Their masterful blending of technical brilliance, emotional depth, bruising heaviness and sublime melody makes for some of the most engaging, infectious metal you’ll hear anywhere...
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  • Death Tribe

    Death Tribe prepare to release Beyond Pain And Pleasure: A Desert Experiment

    January 15, 2019

    Forged in a cauldron of conflict, born of a fiercely independent spirit that refused to be broken and constrained by oppressive regimes and religious and political dogma, Beyond Pain And Pleasure: A Desert Experiment is the story of one man’s unending defiance. Death Tribe is a raised fist in the face of corruption and domination...
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  • Forged In Black

    Forged in Black sign to Fighter Records

    January 10, 2019

    Today we are delighted to be able to announce that heavy metal heroes Forged In Black have signed with Spanish label Fighter Records. A division of Xtreem Music, Fighter Records was created specifically to champion the very best in classic heavy metal and hard rock, making it the perfect home for Forged In Black...
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  • Prion

    Prion prepare to release Aberrant Calamity

    January 07, 2019

    Erupting from the warped heart of chaos they come; a roaring, screaming, slithering mass of nightmares. They explode through the walls of sleep to ravage your defenceless mind with visions twisted beyond comprehension...please welcome to the Imperative PR roster, Prion – an Argentinean trio of insurmountable power. ...
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  • Gorevent
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  • The Medea Project
  • Plague Pit
  • Purulent Necrosis
  • And Now The Owls Are Smiling
  • Arx Atrata
  • Sathamel
  • The Colony
  • NecroticGoreBeast
  • Grevia
  • Horrific Demise
  • Formicarius
  • Solitary
  • Strappado
  • Consecration
  • Stench Of Profit
  • Putrified J
  • The Meads Of Asphodel
  • Tyrmfar
  • Solitary Bloodstock
  • Pythia
  • Depraved Murder
  • Final Coil
  • Body Harvest
  • embludgeonment
  • perversor
  • Foul Body Autopsy
  • Fetal Bleeding
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  • Osmed
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