UK black metal antiheroes Sidious return with the cold majesty of new album Blackest Insurrection!

In the silence of early morning, the twilight hours, the in between times, when shadows hang like black pools in the grey light and the fire of day first flickers on the horizon, then they meet beneath the frost rimed branches. Dark shapes of claw, tooth and blade, adorned with the broken mockery of once great wings. They speak in sibilant whispers lest the earth itself betray them, with ruined voices that in times long past had brought tears to the sky with their beauty. They speak of vengeance, their smoking breath seething with hatred and malice. They plot destruction and grand endings in fire…and blackest insurrection.

Blackest Insurrection is the third album from formidable UK black metal force, Sidious and a wild, uncompromising paean to tragedy, rebellion and defiance unto death. This is the album with which Sidious realise all their promise and potential, defining their sound. A spear hurled with monstrous strength, direct and devastating, yet carrying cold ghosts of dark atmosphere and emotions darker still in its wake. Intimidating and enthralling in equal measure and forged in the flames that have burnt at the heart of black metal since its infernal birth. From the measured malevolence of ‘Hailing Shards Of Agony’ to the careering chaos of ‘Thousandfold Will’, the freezing nightmares of ‘Blood-Soaked Mist’ to the imperious domination of ‘To Know My Kingdom’, Blackest Insurrection is a magnificent, majestic outpouring of pure, unadulterated black metal that will place Sidious in the vanguard of Albion’s legions.

Since the release of their well-received second album, Temporal, Sidious have recruited drummer Valdr (Hecate Enthroned, Formicarius, Necronauticaletc), bringing increased firepower to their arsenal and for the recording of Blackest Insurrection they renewed their working relationship with producer Russ Russell(Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Amorphisetc), who brought a wicked miasma to the band’s debut album, Revealed In Profane Splendour. Sidious’ new label, the bastion of UK extreme metal that is Clobber Records (Argesk, Shadowflag, Wolfbastard etc) will unleash Blackest Insurrection on CD, cassette and digital formats on March 11^th – beware, the uprising has begun and the fallen will fly once more on the wings of war!

Line-up:
Isfeth – Vocals
Baalrath – Bass
Indomitus – Guitar
Valdr – Drums
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: 1349 | Marduk | Dark Funeral | Enthroned

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February 5, 2022 0

Wolfbastard ready to shatter skulls with new album Hammer The Bastards! Violent Black Metal/Punk on Clobber Records out Jan 14th!

Three years on from the senseless violence of their second album, Graveyard Sessions, Manchester’s anti-heroes Wolfbastard are back! Walking the margins of civilised society and not giving a damn for your love or hatred, the belligerent beasts have returned with another chaotic platter of D-beat infused black metal, stained with the influence of crust punk and blackened hardcore. Everything has been turned up one more notch – the aggression, the speed, the violence, the attitude – and the result is the thirteen track nail bomb of Hammer The Bastards!Since bursting onto the scene in 2012 in an explosion of blood, beer and hate, Wolfbastard have established themselves as prime purveyors of the ugliest, grittiest most unrelenting sonic violence imaginable. Proudly and defiantly unacceptable, this band hit hard enough to punch through brick walls and have no regard for any collateral damage that may occur on their riff-fuelled rampage. Hammer The Bastards is the ultimate expression of their nihilistic destruction, the perfect distillation of their heavier than hell, irresistible metallic onslaught. Starting and ending in the tomb, from ‘Can’t Escape The Grave’ to ‘Graveyard Slag’, ‘Pissing On The Sacred Ground’ along the way, this is a one way trip to oblivion.

New label, Clobber Records, will loose the leash on the slavering Wolfbastard pack onJanuary 14th and Hammer The Bastards will be set free. Louder, harder and faster than ever before and just as up for the fight, Wolfbastard are ready to tear down anything that gets in their way. You’ll either be wielding the hammer or under the hammer – the choice is yours.

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November 27, 2021 0

Poetic black metal masters Shadowflag unveil their fourth album, In Asylum Requiem. Out on Clobber Records June 19th

The vast kingdom of the solitary hunter lies within and without, a landscape of thick, soft darkness and mazes laid upon mazes, an ever-changing labyrinth. The shadows of this world lap like waves against the walls of our minds, slowly eroding our defences with timeless patience. For those with broken walls, trapped in cells, bound in restraints, their blood awash with poisons dressed as medicines, the tides of night soon flood in, like the sea over balustrades of sand. A blessing and a curse, the invasive dark brings freedom from confinement and the thorns of healing while stealing all hope of return to a world once loved. The broken are free to run for the hunter, dying a thousand times on the barbed points of his arrows, but always rising to run the maze once more, leaving their shell to the indignities of care and preservation…

Shadowflag have always stalked the hinterlands of black metal, striding with gritted teeth into the face of the storm. They bring rare imagination and a poetic spirit to their fearsome creations, walking hand in hand with accepted convention only when it happens to run parallel to their path. From the grand ambition of their self-titled debut to the cold terror of 2017s The Delusion Machine, Shadowflag have proven themselves to be a band without limitations, a band that stands alone. After three years of labour they are now ready to present their latest beast, carved from the essence of insanity, In Asylum Requiem. The fourth Shadowflag album is perhaps their most formidable and forbidding; each song resolute in purpose and relentless in delivery. Yet for all the freezing fury, the rush of blackness is punctuated with diamonds of unique cut, moments of that unmistakeable Shadowflag magic. Songs like ‘From Agony To Cold’ perfectly define everything that Shadowflag are. They have a sound and signature that is all their own and this has never been more apparent than when wandering the complex passageways of In Asylum Requiem.

On June 19^th Clobber Records will open the floodgates and release the cold, deep waters of In Asylum Requiem to drown the world in dreams of madness. Drink deep from the deluge and open your minds to the numberless possibilities of Shadowflag.

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April 28, 2020 0

And Now The Owls Are Smiling – The Comforting Grip Of Misery Atmospheric black metal on Clobber Records

AND NOW THE OWLS ARE SMILING – THE COMFORTING GRIP OF MISERY LABEL: CLOBBER RECORDS RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 1st 2019

The watcher stands alone in a memory of the primordial forests that once covered this land. He stands in perfect stillness as the hunter passes, dipping beneath the vault of branches, a natural cathedral reflecting the gentle beauty of the fractured architecture of sadness.

The hunter flies on through the still forest air on soft wings, the bringer of death; always alone, always in darkness, always in silence…a ghost upon the wing. And the watcher continues his vigil in the tender company of his heartbreak and his reflections upon sunlight remembered… Born under the vast skies of the Norfolk countryside, in the solitude of the secretive wetlands to the echoes of the curlew’s haunting cry, And Now The Owls Are Smiling explore the beauty of nature and the beauty in melancholy, the forests of the mist shrouded past and the dark forests of the human heart.

New album, The Comforting Grip Of Misery is sweeping and majestic, an autumn wind rushing across the fenlands and through the gnarled and mighty oaks, but also intensely intimate; sweetly summoning up the spectres of sadness and weaving them into bitter sweet vistas of memory, tapestries of treasured tears woven with the words that meant more to you than any others you have heard or spoken.

The trembling melodies of ‘The Comforting Grip Of Misery’ draw you through the valleys of the scars upon your heart, while the bewitching simplicity of ‘Winter’s Elegy’ draws you back into a past you have forgotten to remember. Following on from the haunting touch of 2018s Desolation, The Comforting Grip Of Misery casts even more potent spells, incantations that can unlock the essence of your being and bring the secret loves and losses of your soul out into the dappled sunlight beneath the ancient trees. These songs, these distillations of the essence of humanity can teach you to find the beauty in everything…even misery. Look for this precious tome of sound, rooted in the most expressive forms of depressive, atmospheric black metal as winter approaches.

On November 1st Clobber Records will unveil these songs from the smiling hunter on CD, Digital, Cassette and limited edition double cassette box set.

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