Brooklyn doom crew Batillus have stepped up their game on their latest effort, the Beard Destroyer Tour CDR-EP. This release is limited to 75 copies, featuring handcrafted packaging by Northern Owl, and contains three songs that clock in at a total running time of 24:10. The EP was recorded at Sterling Audio in Brooklyn, NY, by Brendan Tobin (Red Sparowes, Made Out of Babies) and mastered by Josh Bonati.

The EP kicks off with “The Division,” which features the debut of new vocalist / synth-monger Fade Kainer (Inswarm, Jarboe). Kainer adds some deep, crispy flavor to the band’s mid-tempo riffage and snaking, psych-doom lines. So if you like doom–and we know you do–get some below:

Click here to download “The Division.”

You can also download the band’s early Batillus EP HERE

Batillus also features guitarist Greg Peterson, bassist Willi Stabenau and drummer Geoff Summers.

Paris, France-based black metal group Glorior Belli are about to release their third full-length (and first on Candlelight Records), Meet Us At The Southern Sign on June 2, 2009. Additionally, Glorior Belli will begin their first U.S. tour alongside labelmates Absu and Sothis this June.

Meet Us At The Southern Sign Track List:
1. In A Blood Red Moon
2. The Forbidden Words
3. Swamp That Shame
4. There Is But One Light
5. True Essence
6. In Every Grief-Stricken Blues
7. Nox Illuminatio Mea
8. The Blazing Darkness
9. Fivefold Thought
10. Fires Of The Sitra Ahra
11. Meet Us At The Southern Sign

To celebrate this wicked-sounding release, we are pleased to offer the exclusive preview of “In Every Grief-Stricken Blues.” Check it out below!

Glorior Belli tour dates:
Jun 6 2009 8:00P Jumping Turtle San Marcos, California
Jun 7 2009 8:00P House of Blues W. Hollywood, California
Jun 8 2009 8:00P Thee Parkside S Francisco, California
Jun 9 2009 8:00P Hawthorne Theatre Portland, Oregon
Jun 10 2009 8:00P El Corazon Seattle, Washington
Jun 12 2009 8:00P The Underground Calgary, Alberta
Jun 13 2009 8:00P The Exchange Regina, Saskatchewan
Jun 14 2009 8:00P Royal Albert Arms Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jun 15 2009 8:00P Station 4 St Paul, Minnesota
Jun 16 2009 8:00P The Pearl Room Mokena, Illinois
Jun 17 2009 8:00P Peabody’s Cleveland, Ohio
Jun 18 2009 8:00P Wreck Room Toronto, Ontario
Jun 19 2009 8:00P Petit Campus Montreal, Quebec
Jun 20 2009 8:00P Penny Arcade Rochester, New York
Jun 21 2009 8:00P BB Kings Blues Club New York, New York
Jun 22 2009 8:00P Jaxx W. Springfield, Virginia
Jun 23 2009 8:00P Volume 11 Raleigh, North Carolina
Jun 24 2009 8:00P The Muse Nashville, Tennessee
Jun 25 2009 8:00P The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 26 2009 8:00P The Garage St. Petersburg, Florida
Jun 27 2009 8:00P Culture Room Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Jun 29 2009 8:00P Firewater Dallas, Texas

Sweden’s rock pack WOLF are back with their fifth full-length, Ravenous (Century Media). Produced by Roy Z (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Helloween, Halford), Ravenous is the first album on which new bassist Anders Modd and drummer Richard Holmgren join Niklas Stalvind (guitar/vocals) and Johannes Losback (guitar).

While you’ll have to wait until March 24 to pick up your own copy, we here at MetalKult are pleased to offer an exclusive preview of Ravenous streaming in its entirety. Check out the tracks below!

Track-listing:
1. Speed On (3:46)
2. Curse You Salem (3:52)
3. Voodoo (4:17)
4. Hail Caesar (3:48)
5. Ravenous (3:57)
6. Mr Twisted (3:53)
7. Love At First Bite (3:48)
8. Secrets We Keep (4:50)
9. Whisky Psycho Hellions (4:41)
10. Hiding In Shadows (4:18)
11. Blood Angel (6:25)

Photo by NikDesign.

MetalKult is proud to present an exclusive preview of Brazilian death metal act Krisiun’s latest full-length, Southern Storm, which will be released by Century Media on August 5.

For more than 15 years, the three-piece—Alex Camargo (vocals/bass), Moyses Kolesne (guitar) and Max Kolesne (drums)—has been creating pure, unrelenting extreme metal. With their seventh studio album, Southern Storm, Krisiun prove once again that they are as dark and violent as ever.

For Southern Storm, Krisiun tapped producer Andy Classen, who has previously worked with the band on 1999’s Conquerors Of Armageddon and 2006’s AssassiNation. Recording commenced at Stage One Studio in Germany and the result was nothing less than organic, brutal metal, as evidenced by opener, “Slaying Steel,” “Combustion Infernal” or the band’s cover of Sepultura’s “Refuse/Resist.”

You’ll have to wait a week to snag your own copy, but in the meantime, enjoy the following streaming preview!

Photo by Axel Jusseit.