By the time this publishes, it will be still be more than an hour until puck drop. Losing sleep to mediocre hockey: a tradition unlike any other.

• Napalm Records announced a new signing in Swedish heavy metallers Ambush. Formed in 2013, it appears as though we can expect new material from them, and perhaps their fourth full-length, sometime next year.
• Out of Catalonia, doom-death metal entity Onirophagus set January 17 as the release date for their third full-length, Revelations From the Void. That will be released through Personal Records with “Landsickness” available for streaming here.
• Out of Purity Through Fire, the third album from Nefarious Dusk will be released on December 25th. Check out the title-track from Death Beneath a Starless Sky right now.
• UK black metal collective The Infernal Sea released a deluxe and reimagined version of Hellfenlic through Candlelight. For a taste, check out the new video for “Black Witchery (Curse of The Coven Remix by Nekravol)”.
• To close out we have the latest from Lovecraft-themed post-black metal outfit The Great Old Ones. A video for “In The Mouth of Madness” can be seen below, the latest sample from Kadath. That one is out on January 24th through Season of Mist.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb