Terminal Nation - Echoes Of The Devil's Den (2024)

Terminal Nation — Echoes Of The Devil's Den (Track 1)

Information

Artist – Terminal Nation

Album – Echoes Of The Devil's Den

Label – 20 Buck Spin

Released – May 3rd, 2024

Type – Full-length

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Notes

Echoes of the Devil's Den is the second full-length by Terminal Nation, released on 3 May 2024 through 20 Buck Spin. The lineup consists of Stan Liszewski (vocals), Tommy Robinson (guitar), Dalton Rail (guitar), Chase Turner (bass, vocals), and Chase Davis (drums). Recording, production, engineering, and mixing were handled by Ryan Bram at Homewrecker Recording Studio in Tucson, Arizona, while mastering was completed by Brad Boatright at Audioseige. Cover artwork was created by Adam Burke.

The album expands the band's established fusion of metallic hardcore and death metal through dense, mid-tempo riff construction, HM-2-influenced guitar tones, downtuned grooves, and frequent breakdown-driven transitions while retaining death metal tremolo passages and blast-beat accents. Production emphasizes a thick, compressed low end with sharply defined percussion and layered guitar textures. Guest vocal appearances include Todd Jones (Nails), Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage), Zak Vargas (Elysia), K. Kennedy (Sex Prisoner), and Dwid Hellion (Integrity), adding stylistic variation without altering the record's consistently abrasive approach. The result is a technically tight blend of hardcore rhythmic impact and modern death metal weight with occasional melodic passages such as the instrumental "Embers of Humanity."

Videos

TERMINAL NATION - Written by the Victor (feat. Todd Jones of Nails) Official Video

Recording

Produced, engineered and mixed at Homewrecker Recording Studio in Tucson, Arizona.
Mastered at Audioseige.

Tracklist

1. Echoes of the Devil's Den – 04:11

2. Written by the Victor – 03:04

3. The Spikes Under the Bridge – 03:01

4. No Reform (New Age Slave Patrol) – 03:10

5. Empire in Decay – 03:54

6. Embers of Humanity – 02:56

7. Merchants of Bloodshed – 04:53

8. Bullet for a Stone – 02:57

9. Dying Alive – 03:01

10. Cemetery of Imposters – 02:19

11. Immolation (Of Mother Earth) – 02:38

12. Release the Serpents – 04:11

Total length: 40:15

Lineup

Band Members

    Chase Turner – Bass, Vocals

    Chase Davis – Drums

    Dalton Rail – Guitars

    Tommy Robinson – Guitars

    Stan Liszewski – Vocals

Guest / Session

    K. Kennedy – Vocals (additional) (track 10)

    Todd Jones – Vocals (additional) (track 2)

    Juan Cebreros – Drums (tracks 2, 9)

    Jesse Leach – Vocals (additional) (track 7)

    Zak Vargas – Vocals (additional) (track 3)

    Dwid Hellion – Vocals (additional) (track 12)

Miscellaneous Staff

    Jacob Murry – Photography

    Ryan Bram – Producer, Engineering, Mixing

    Brad Boatright – Mastering

    Adam Burke – Artwork

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Iniquity - Serenadium (1996)

Iniquity — Prophecy of the Dying Watcher (Track 2)

Information

Artist – Iniquity

Album – Serenadium

Label – Diehard Music

Released – June 13th, 1996

Type – Full-length

Additional

Notes

Iniquity's Serenadium was released on 13 June 1996 through Diehard Music as the Danish band's debut full-length. The core lineup consisted of Brian Petrowsky (vocals, rhythm guitar), Lars Friis (lead guitar, backing vocals), Thomas "Gnist" Christensen (bass), and Jacob Olsen (drums), with guest contributions from Cathrine Jensen (keyboards) and Ankie Toet (cello). The album was engineered, mixed and produced by Jan Borsing, while the band co-produced the sessions. Jacob Olsen completed the recording before leaving the band, with Jesper Frost joining prior to the album's release.

Recording and mixing took place at Borsing Recording in Denmark over a twelve-day period between July 1995 and January 1996. Digital editing and mastering were completed at Backstage Studio, Denmark. The production emphasizes a dense, low-tuned guitar tone with highly articulated riffing, rapid rhythmic changes, frequent tempo shifts, and layered melodic textures provided by keyboards and cello without reducing the album's aggressive character. Although rooted in mid-1990s technical death metal, the record incorporates doom-influenced pacing, dissonant harmonies, and intricate arrangements that distinguish it from more straightforward brutal death metal releases of the era. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

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Additional

Jacob Olsen did the drums on the recording, and then quit the band. Jesper Frost joined just before it was released and thats why his picture is in the booklet.
At least one song (Son of Cosmos) was written by Mads Haarløv who had already been part of the band during the demo era, before rejoining in 1998.

Recording

Recorded and mixed at Borsing Recording, Denmark in 12 days between July 1995 and January 1996.
Co-Produced by Iniquity.
Digital editing & mastering at Backstage Studio, Denmark.

Identifiers

Barcode: 5709830950039
Matrix / Runout: Sonopress R-0775/ RRS953 A
ASIN: B000024B4A
Label Code: LC 3384
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L030
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0702

Tracklist

1. Tranquil Seizure – 06:20 >

Celestial Journey, Intercession of spheres Interstellar release The cosmic reappears Drift among stars, Flow vainly into black Tranquil body seizures But mentally relaxed Shedding of worries Mind quest no fear With gravity behind me In rapture I sear Reaching out gently to touch and contrast But deceived by this contour of images so vast With gravity behind me And destiny in hand With gravity behind me And destiny in hand My body slithers paralyzed Into emptiness

2. Prophecy of the Dying Watcher – 04:26

3. Serenadium – 04:42 >

Lethal injection in the skull Tranquil fluid enters the brain Incision made with surgical precision Plastic tube inserted in the vain Incurable chronic disorder Total paralysation lurking ahead Stiffening of limbs, blood runs cold Psychic molestation Serenade of the death-less You will slowly transpire Serenadium of the death-less Painful submission to cancer Your only perception is the pain Of your body that slowly corrodes The only thing left that is real to you Is the menacing torment that is devouring you

4. Spectral Scent – 06:25 >

Injecting the drug Awaiting it's effect Sending back the mind Into the abyss of ages Not knowing of the peril Await there souls beyond There's a hideous price to pay For knowing the beginning Blush protoplasmic icon Shows the presence of them Called upon by curious mortals Seeking knowledge of the ancient past Standing on the shores Beyond time and space Escaping through the aeons Seeking back to presence Scented through timeless ages Approaching through geometrical gates Infiltrating healthy dimension To feast on the life therein

5. (Intro) Mockery Retained to Obturate – 04:28

6. Encysted and Dormant – 05:48 >

Entering the blood flow Convention invisible Causing a rapid terminal infection Atrocities deformation of the bodily system Alien spores flowing unbound Beneath the smoldering flesh Growing immensely inside Converting the living tissue Into rubbery decomposium matter Spreading the slender filaments Through the circulary system The transformation immediate Limbs turn to fungus flesh Once encysted and dormant The spores survive for centuries Cataclysmic hallucinations Marks the beginning Encysted and dormant

7. Son of Cosmos – 03:38 >

In the center of the universe In the midst of oblivion Is where the seat of power is found Soaked by unspeakable madness Deity beyond description Abhorrence absolute Intense madness it is Of what I dare not speak Older than the void Son of the cosmos He will still remain Aeons after our time A torturous seed implanted in me Embedded in my strain of thoughts Enlightened by my killing tendency Violence, a dominating supremacy

8. Retorn – 05:35 >

I am one of the flock Like them, I lie dreaming Clenching my rose of blackness. Dwelling in sunken valoorni Help me out of this war that keeps haunting me Laugh at me, mock me, Confine your banished mind Tempt his way nadve web of frustrations in you It was the darkness of my youth When I came upon the man who warp my mind astray He taught me ways of seeing Into other spheres of reality Where no mind saves the insane Can fathom what it beholds The man in black Teachers of the master's art Messenger from the outer limits Of indefinable time and space

Total length: 41:22

Lineup

Band Members

    Thomas "Gnist" Christensen – Bass

    Jacob Olsen – Drums, Lyrics

    Lars Friis – Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing)

    Brian Petrowsky (R.I.P. 2011) – Vocals, Guitars

Guest / Session

    Ankie Toet – Cello

    Cathrine Jensen – Keyboards

Miscellaneous Staff

    Terkel Christensen – Artwork

    Jan Borsing – Engineering, Mixing, Producer

    Brian Petrowsky (R.I.P. 2011) – Mixing, Lyrics

    Mads Haarløv – Lyrics

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Intestine Baalism - Banquet in the Darkness (2003)

Intestine Baalism — Banquet in the Darkness (Track 2)

Information

Artist – Intestine Baalism

Album – Banquet in the Darkness

Label – Blackend

Released – April 7th, 2003

Type – Full-length

Additional

Notes

Intestine Baalism's Banquet in the Darkness was released on 7 April 2003 through Blackend (catalog BLACK049CD). The lineup consisted of Seiji Kakuzaki (vocals, guitars), Jiro Itō (guitars), Katsumasa Yoshida (bass), and Hisao Hashimoto (drums), with Kenji Minagawa contributing bass and Hideyuki Yamada drums on "The Planet." Kakuzaki also handled the album's engineering and mixing, while the cover artwork was created by Adrian Wear. The record followed the band's 1997 debut and expanded its approach without altering its core compositional style.

Recorded and produced with a clear, dry guitar mix that emphasizes layered rhythm work over studio effects, Banquet in the Darkness combines Swedish-inspired melodic lead guitar with old-school death metal riff construction, rapid tremolo picking, frequent tempo changes, and tightly locked double-bass drumming. Rather than relying on keyboards or atmospheric production, the album derives its melodic character from harmonized guitar lines interwoven with dense, palm-muted riffing and low growled vocals. The result is a technically precise blend of melodic death metal and traditional death metal that balances intricate guitar arrangements with an aggressive, organic production.

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Additional

The album's recording process from beginning to end was mired with lineup changes, time constraints, and various pitfalls and setbacks beyond the band's control, hence the differences in the mix and lineups within the album.

Recording

Recorded at Influence Recordings between 1998 & 2001 in Chiba, Japan.

Identifiers

Barcode: 8 03341 12652 7
Matrix / Runout: BLACK049CD
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LR61 2/25/03

Tracklist

1. Flesh for the Twelfth Omnipotent – 03:16 >

Only by destruction my lust will be satisfied Established glorious his kingdom will soon go to ruin Eternity is a lie by their hateful god Time spoils the prosperity decorated by your feces Ugly beggar, eat your own entrails To survive, until the day of liberation Only by butchery your deadly sins will be cleansed Banshee cried to tell me the beginning of the last Supper Your beating heart for the new genuine king Your bone for the massacred race by your lie Your flesh for the land devastated with despair Your boiling blood for the dried up ocean My number is twelve, the number of omnipotence When the skies are dyed red, I will sublimate

2. Banquet in the Darkness – 03:56 >

At the moment a huge infortune star was placed there The gate to another world opened The unknown world was widespread out there A holy light of hope is eroded The black sun is materializing an evil shadow Our guardian angel The advent of the dark satan glows Oh, lord, give devastating pains and fears To the satans!! Give despair to blind lambs wander for the God and looking for grace Holy moments of us, the creatures who live In the darkness embracing pains Lead by the golden rule of the grand evil space The massacre is gonna happen by the disciples Avalanching from the gate Although the insane shout of the saints is bursting The god never helps them The earth is dyed black with the blood of the dead It emits resentment Death tide billows, it engulfs souls This grand moment leads us to the evil era of darkness To our dynasty of lust where evil exceeds saints

3. A Curse of Baal – 03:25 >

In the darkness of the night drifting mysteriously Being an omen and the voice of curse The gravity slides and overlaps the axis Of the other world What doesn't exist in the real world Will come into existence Materialistic notion will be resurrected It doesn't exist but makes itself exist The mentally weak who rely on god Can't maintain even their existence The reality that couldn't happen in the Human world pushes people's soul into the darkness The fools who were called saints cry out Forgetting prayers for the god Those who have ancient wisdom become the kings They and the materialized baal spread curses The cross hanging from the neck is the token It brings curses together The more you pray the god The more the negative gravity increases Plague is spread The earth is covered with bodies Sticky resentment floats in the air The idol gently opens his eyes Then gives a freezing smile In the never-ending night The dark red sun is drifting mysteriously

4. The Genuine Tone – 04:46 >

An aria echoes like a wolf's howl Growing rising it leads itself to ecstatic madness The genuine tone of the name with a great power Strong words backed by our will Reverse of the creating process Everything constructed shall be destroyed Space destruction It'll be done An extraordinary psychic excitement rises up The self-hypnosis effect is increasing Occult intelligence wakes up The name of genuine devil Vibration, it affects everything it touches Free the force that controls anything in the universe Inside the magic square various names vibrate The force called up is ejected into the universe

5. Principle of Causality – 04:10 >

[Verse 1] Beget the deviation of causality Alter the form of process It is a law that depends only on mutation And evolves itself rapidly The density of material and life increases And the current of time flows faster The big current that is not supposed to exist In the universe starts to move [Chorus] I am the omnipotent who knows the essence of time Nobody can rebel against the supreme intention Everything is necessity that I assembled The relation between cause and effect: The principle of causality [Verse 2] Hiding in blood for thousand years For generations, I've bided my time It was made by transcendental intelligence Made by intention that nobody can understand You won't know the meanings of causality for a long time [Chorus] I am the omnipotent who knows the essence of time Nobody can rebel against the supreme intention Everything is necessity that I assembled The relation between cause and effect: The principle of causality [Verse 3] Intrusion into the genealogy of life gives birth to The unusual principle of causality Then it flows on with a little distortion My sons were born from the distortion of causality Life is evil, killing is beauty, this is the truth For gather on that land, you will see everything there Your lives have been spun into a yarn for this day [Verse 4] The aspect of this obnoxious planet starts to warn Something is gonna be born on the road to the obvious extinction It is an existence that transcends even the principle of the universe He governs all the currents of time [Chorus] I am the omnipotent who knows the essence of time Nobody can rebel against the supreme intention Everything is necessity that I assembled The relation between cause and effect: The principle of causality I am the omnipotent who knows the essence of time Nobody can rebel against the supreme intention

6. Memory – 04:29 >

The place only for existence, the spiritual world In this static space, the memories were abruptly freed The reality becomes vibration and it spreads in front of you The scene crossing your mind shows the answer to the truth In this iris, the shape of past is seen Living in a big and invisible stream Threatened by big and invisible pressure You will wander in the big forest without a trail The prayer invites the light and deletes the sun The blood streaming in the body loses the place to go The bound earth sinks in the red sea Men are slaves of the fatally vindictive light The light filled with greed, the brainwashed justice What do you pray for? What do you swear? Oh darkness, free your great power To complete the liberation of the earth The memory being inherited in the endless time Awakens the earth of darkness without any slight glimmer

7. A Keen – 01:57

8. The Avenger Full of Vengeance on God – 04:08 >

Drifting on the ocean of darkness The heart is freezing The negative resentment flows in Many deaths pass through Accepted every pain The thought goes in, it never stops I have the only mission Exceeding every phenomenon New ego is being made up I sleep covered with black wings Until the time to fly comes Black flame of vengeance Swinging gently Falling into the deep darkness Something comes into my view Sewn eyelids with the eyeballs taken out Feel the fear of losing light A stick penetrates into the peeled and exposed muscle The ultimate pain destroys the brain A flatiron is put on the skin and it smolders Smell the skin burning The joints are broken off and the bones are crashed The deep crash seduces you to a nightmare God, you betrayed me! A forceless hypocrite Pray and cry, but you don't come down Just look down from the high place On fainting away, I saw him sneering at me You are not qualified to mention the salvage A bystander It is a guardian angel that came down responding to my cry A great emissary of the king I am going to fly with a sword in my hand Swearing vengeance on you for the next thousand years

9. A Knight Appears from the Lake of Blood – 04:19 >

A neigh of a horse echoes under the moon Evil spirits of forest start rustling The horse is waiting for the owner Looks anticipating tonight's hunting A ripple slowly runs from the center of the lake Lit up by the moonlight Then, at the moment the ripple is reaching the waterside The lake suddenly turns into bloody red The rusty odour The disgusting evil The freezing air The silence and the black moon reflected on the lake The knight of blood, the hunter of darkness Those who don't accept the sacred Those who act in the night The black helmet, the black armour The angel of darkness and death As evil spirits of forest start dancing The knight appears out of the lake Standing at the waterside and soaked with blood He is dimly lit by the moonlight The horse is drinking the blood from the lake The knight walks to him to mount Getting a sword out and glancing at the moon He runs the horse, looking for prey and blood There are tombs for those hunted, but no bodies beneath them Stabbed by the knight, the preys are taken away as they are The bodies are thrwon into the lake They turn into the new blood of the lake Which satisfies the knight The glorious neigh and the sword craft attract those who see them A the very moment, the sword gives a sweet pain The one who brings the pain to the earth from the hell The momentary death from the knight becomes the eternal pain in the hell

10. The Planet – 04:58 >

[Verse 1] On the planet filled with creatures People lament over death They don't recognize all the creatures on the earth are evil No one can live without eating others [Chorus] The planet itself is abnormal Abandon the stupid lesson To kill creatures is to contribute to the planet The number of lives should be reduced [Verse 2] Fools say life is important or god blesses us Having eaten so many lives by themselves Fools won't hesitate to kill and eat animals that plead for their lives They do so just for their survival [Chorus] The planet itself is abnormal Abandon the stupid lesson To kill creatures is to contribute to the planet The number of lives should be reduced [Verse 3] The euphoria of killing creatures It is the joy of contributing to the planet Provide death and feel the joy That will tell you the true form of life [Chorus] The planet itself is abnormal Abandon the stupid lesson To kill creatures is to contribute to the planet The number of lives should be reduced

11. Born but Buried, I Can See the Light – 03:51 >

[I.] Mistress lilith, the master of fear Let me die, a release from the original sin In the lowest place i am buried... dark and cold But the time has come... shall we all be damned? [II.] I saw the most inhuman rite Obsessed fanatics, entranched by voodoo spells Raptured feast, supper Ritual of descent, sodomize the sanctities [III.] I feel the need of the dream I whispered to imagine the warmth I drowned in the whirlpools of deadly conflicts [IV.] In the lowest place i am buried... dark and cold Isolated, i can't see the light... born but buried The moon of sorrow, she has it's darkland... banshee of doom cry Bonded by hate, raped by greed, with misery and pain [V.] I drain my blood for all sins... darkness, he has seen my end I she'd my body for all beggars... decayed in the ground ...feel no mercy, i prostrate Marching shadows, awakening of the void... may god have mercy on us In the eden of the damned i saw an illusion... or was it a truth? There is nothing but butchery in my vision [VI.] The time has come... death only knows The gate of hell awaits beyond the realm of humanity Fate has decreed that blasphemy should be done All of us will be butchered by the hands of glory Restless torment, no return Echoed in the voices of insanity Isolated, a can't see the light Made extinct by the void of obscurity [VII.] They collapse in helplessness I know i am the messiah so i must subject them all with tortures Restless torment, no return Echoed in the voices of insanity Born but buried, i can't see the light A am made immortal by the obscurity

Total length: 43:15

Lineup

Band Members

    Seiji Kakuzaki – Vocals, Guitars (electric, acoustic), Lyrics (tracks 2-5, 7-10), Songwriting

    Jiro Ito – Guitars

    Katsumasa Yoshida – Bass, Lyrics (track 6)

    Hisao Hashimoto – Drums

    Kenji Minagawa – Bass (track 10)

    Hideyuki Yamada – Drums (track 10)

Miscellaneous Staff

    Takeshi Ohkouchi – Lyrics (tracks 1, 11)

    Adrian Wear – Cover art, Layout

    Seiji Kakuzaki – Producer, Engineering, Mixing

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Zealot Cult - Spiritual Sickness (2018)

Zealot Cult — Sea of Suffering (Track 2)

Information

Artist – Zealot Cult

Album – Spiritual Sickness

Label – Blood Harvest

Released – October 26th, 2018

Type – Full-length

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Notes

Zealot Cult released Spiritual Sickness as their debut full-length in late October 2018, with physical editions issued through Blood Harvest Records in collaboration with Helter Skelter Productions. The Irish quartet's lineup consisted of Jay Quigley (vocals, guitars), Mick Carey (guitars), Alan Lee (bass), and Declan Malone (drums).

The album was engineered, recorded and mixed by Ciaran Culhane, mastered by Richard Dowling, and features cover artwork by Paolo Girardi. Musically, Spiritual Sickness combines old-school death metal rooted in the late-1980s and early-1990s Florida scene with tightly structured riffing, frequent tempo changes, melodic lead guitar passages, and occasional doom-inflected sections. The production is clear but dense, emphasizing layered guitar interplay and articulate drumming while retaining the weight and aggression associated with classic death metal recordings.

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Zealot Cult – Spiritual Sickness (Full Album Stream)
Zealot Cult – Sea of Suffering (Album Track)

Additional

Co-release with Helter Skelter Productions

Tracklist

1. Spiritual Sickness – 05:07

2. Sea of Suffering – 05:44

3. Repent in Flames – 04:00

4. Left to Rot – 04:21

5. Blades of Jihad – 05:34

6. Servi ad Deum – 04:33

7. Thy Will Be Done – 04:06

8. In the Shadow of the Beast – 07:42

Total length: 41:07

Lineup

Band Members

    Alan Lee – Bass

    Declan Malone – Drums

    Mick Carey – Guitars

    Jay Quigely – Guitars, Vocals

Miscellaneous Staff

    Paolo Girardi – Cover art

    Antichrist Kramer – Artwork

    Ciaran Culhane – Engineering, Mixing

    Richard Dowling – Mastering

    Ken Coleman – Layout, Design

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