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Handful of Hate - Soulless Abominations

Black Metal from Italy

Once again, HANDFUL OF HATE is back with another trip to the darkest hell. After almost seven years from the previous, great “Adversus”, the tuscanian legion brings forth another fast, brutal and technical black metal record in the best tradition of the second wave of black metal. The ingredients are the same: high-velocity blast beats and a relentless wall of sound, complex guitar riffs, sharp production, and their celebrated range of lyrical themes: misanthropy, sexual deviance and hatred for christianity. HANDFUL OF HATE formed in 1993 in Lucca, Tuscany. After all these years, they are widely respected in the underground scene for their uncompromising sound and aesthetic: records such as “Qliphotic Supremacy”, “Vicecrown” or “Adversus” are neither gone nor forgotten. Now it’s timme for “Soulless Abominations”!

1. Libera Me 04:55 2. Worlds Below 04:07 3. Gall Feeder 04:04 4. Winter March 05:58 5. Age of Infamy (Grown in Starvation) 04:33 6. Different - Distant - Apart 05:20 7. Skinless Salvation 05:56 8. Where Sanctity Rots 04:16

Release date: January 23rd, 2026 via @dusktone

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After one EP and a full-length record (and the orchestral versions of both, released in between), Italian occult extreme metallers OBSCURA QALMA are back with a new opus.

OBSCURA QALMA is going to unleash a sonic storm with their new EP 'Veils Of Transcendence', blending the relentlessness of death metal with the grandeur of an increasingly barbed orchestra. The band delves once again into the realms of esoteric mysticism, conveying Aleister Crowley's opera. Your OST to the end of the world.

If you are into acts such as Septic Flesh, Hypocrisy and Dimmu Borgir and you are fascinated by the impact of modern death metal and the power of orchestrations, you should really take a listen to “Veils Of Transcendence”.

After two records out in 2021 and 2022, SadoMaster of Morcolac is back with a vengeance with the new maxi-EP (30 minutes of music) “Drawbridge To Citadel Of No More Dawn”, prelude to a forth-coming and bombastic third new record.

Morcolac draws inspiration from the late 90’s Nordic black metal, in particular from the symphonic side and - geographically - the finnish scene, a tradition continuing today with names such a Satanic Warmaster, Vargrav, Warmoon Lord. Listeners can feel a balance in Morcolac music: on one side the gloom of symphonic black metal while on the other the aggression and the malignancy of old-school black metal.

If you are into black metal and you want to experience dark forests, evil creatures and the grim side of fantasy worlds through their lyrics, Morcolac is for you!

Dusktone Press Release: HANDFUL OF HATE : Reissues On The Way

Press Release Dusktone is very proud to announce the imminent reissue of the first two albums of one of the oldest and most important Italian Black Metal bands to date : Handful of Hate. Qliphothic Supremacy has been released in 1997 and  is now, universally recognized,  as a pure milestone of the so-called first wave Italian Black Metal movement , the worthy successor was Hierarchy 1999,…