Unpurified and set ablaze - a photo gallery of Unpure live in Dublin

Back in January 2025, black/thrash madmen Unpure played in Dublin as part of Invictus Productions' event series "Death From Below": undoubtedly a great chance for Irish maniacs to see them in an intimate club, where the raw energy of their crushing set hits you hard straight in the face!

Photographer and videographer Ray Keenaghan of RAY K MEDIA was at the show and filmed a visual account of their live appearance:

Alongside this killer footage, he also took some excellent shots of Unpure in action, and he kindly allowed us to publish them: the attentive eye behind the lens has looked  for those striking details which convey all the furious, relentless and raging madness going on at the show!
So here's a photo gallery of Unpure setting ablaze Dublin!

(Click on each image to enlarge in a new window)

Listen to The Other Sun's debut "Daimon, Devil, Dawn" in its entirety

"Daimon, Devil, Dawn" cover artwork by David S. Herrerías

The debut full-length of Swedish dark rockers The Other Sun, titled "Daimon, Devil, Dawn", is out today, July 23rd, 2024  and it can now be streamed in all its captivating entirety!

The album can be purchased digitally on Bandcamp and physical copies on vinyl and CD can be found on Invictus Productions and The Ajna Offensive.

Listening to this album, feels a bit like walking into a dimly lit, smokey bar with wooden furniture cracking and faces in the dark that you can't really see, but you know they are staring at you. A fortune teller awaits across the room, and by the time you're getting close to see what cards have been drawn to see your destiny, you wake up and it was just a dream...or was it?

Unpure to play in Dublin in January 2025

Unpure in 2024 Photographed by Extremmetal.se

Invictus Productions has announced that none other than the Unpure horde will play a show in Dublin on January 25th, 2025 as part of the label's series "Death From Below"!

Here's the official announcement on the event page:

"Swedish Black Metal legends will perform a special set for DEATH FROM BELOW for the January edition of the series! Coming in the blackest and darkest of winter to spread their unholy gospel! Joining them will be special guest DJ P. Čachtice from Austrian strigoi Transilvania!
Tickets will be slightly more expensive than the usual price for this event due to the band flying in. Places will be extremely limited so we will sell tickets for this online ahead of the show!"

Surely a great chance to see Unpure playing live which shouldn't be missed!

The show will take place at The Thomas House in Dublin.
We will post further updates about tickets pre-sale as they become available in the Partake section of the website.
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Official links to follow
Unpure: Facebook - Instagram
Invictus Productions: Website - Facebook - Instagram

The Other Sun premiere lyric video for the song "Black As Gold"

Swedish evokators of dark rock The Other Sun have premiered today on Deaf Forever a lyric video for the song "Black As Gold", taken from their upcoming album "Daimon, Devil, Dawn", out on on July 23rd, 2024 via Invictus Productions and The Ajna offensive.

"When you read 'dark', don't think of this as an angry, angsty darkness, but rather an exploration of the Inner Self infused with the psychedelic, a Western twang, the profound demeanor of deep-rooted occultism that conjures both the sunrise and the sunset and all that such implies when studied through the individual. Dreams start from darkness and turn into that invisible light which compels the Promethean spirit in Man", explains Invictus Productions in the video description.

Indeed, like travelling back into a shadowy dream in the 70s, the atmosphere is evocative and captivating, rich in passages of absorbing ambience, smoothly blended with psychedelic inspirations.

The Other Sun: debut album "Daimon, Devil, Dawn" out on July 23rd, 2024

"Daimon, Devil, Dawn" cover artwork by David S. Herrerías

The Ajna offensive and Invictus Productions have announced today that the debut album by Swedish dark rock band The Other Sun, titled "Daimon, Devil, Dawn" will be released on July 23rd, 2024!

As you might remember, back in 2019 The Other Sun released a truly intriguing cassette EP on Lapis Niger Production, "Horizon Between The Eyes" (see our archive post about it), at the time the band started as a collaboration between writer and musician Frederik Eytzinger (on guitar and vocals) and Tommie Eriksson (drums and guitar).

Now as of 2024, the line-up consists of Fredrik Eytzinger (lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass), Árni Bergur Zoëga (vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards), and Tommie Eriksson (session solo guitars) and their debut album, once again with an impressive cover artwork by artist David S. Herrerías, will be out in Europe through Invictus Productions and in the U.S. through The Ajna Offensive.

Stream Ensnared's new album "Inimicus Generis Humani" in its entirety

Ensnared's new album "Inimicus Generis Humani" is out today on Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records: the album is thus available now to be streamed entirety on Bandcamp, after being premiered the other day on No Clean Singing.
Remarkably, as killer as their previous effort "Dysangelium" sounded, this new opus pushes things even further, or shall we say, deeper: indeed, it certainly won't disappoint the appreciators of the band's multilayered take on death metal, which manages to add a more profound and metaphysical touch to the typical savagery of the genre, without ever diminishing its viciousness, but instead letting it strike at different levels, musical, and mental.

Throughout the entire "Inimicus Generis Humani" one can definitely hear the effort, the struggle and the dedication put in the songwriting, in the execution, in the arrangements, and the result is indeed a striking, intricate experience of musical journey through the desolated, menacing and challenging lands of human everlasting will to push beyond the limitations of flesh and bones.
For in the compelling death metal delivered by Ensnared, one can find very well transposed into music, the tribulations and the accomplishments of an adept who incessantly seeks to refine his methods and perceptions.
And after all, isn't in fact humans' inherent weakness the true enemy of the human genre?

Below you can find the full stream of this excellent album, and you can acquire physical copies on Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records.

Ensnared premiere viciously powerful track from "Inimicus Generis Humani"

Ensnared premiered today on Decibel Magazine a new track from their upcoming full-length "Inimicus Generis Humani", out on Invictus Productions and on Dark Descent Records on February 14th.
The song is titled “The Throne of Transformation”, and right from the beginning it strikes deeply, deploying a powerful, almost doom-driven intro and then shows its vicious twists and turns in a stellar maelstrom of black-infused, piercing death metal swirl.
Like a sinful abomination, Ensnared's sound has undeniably grown in complexity and it builds an oppressive, heavy atmosphere without ever losing its massive death metal grip.
Guitarist and vocalist H.K's comment about the track on Decibel Magazine also faces us with this ominous and interesting question: "To fall victim to the one on the Throne of Transformation, the enemy of humankind, is a most dire malediction, yet how does it come that humans in different remote parts of the world worship its incarnations in misshapen form?”

Differently from what stated on Decibel magazine, "Inimicus Generis Humani" has been recorded by the Ensnared's duo H.K and J.K only, with the addition of leads by C.S. (of Graveyard, Sheidim).

You can stream the new track "The Throne of Transformation" here below; Ensnared's upcoming album "Inimicus Generis Humani" can be pre-ordered on Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records: see all the available versions on this previous post.

Ensnared's "Inimicus Generis Humani" pre-orders and tracklist available

Ensnared's second full-length, "Inimicus Generis Humani", will be released on February 14th, 2020 on Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records, who both have opened earlier today the pre-orders for the following versions of the album:

- Limited white vinyl  Invictus Productions - Dark Descent Records
- Regular black vinyl Invictus Productions - Dark Descent Records
- Jewelcase CD Invictus Productions - Dark Descent Records.

The tracklist for the upcoming opus has also been unveiled and appears as ominously promising as as follows:

1. Interlude I
2. Spiritual Necrosis
3. The Throne of Transformation
4. Interlude II
5. Disciples of the Whip
6. Interlude III
7. Katharsis Through Terror
8. Black Hole Acolytes

Digital pre-orders are also available on Invictus Productions' Bandcamp page.

Additionally, for an even more lethal dose of death metal, the band's venomous debut album "Dysangelium" will also be repressed on regular black vinyl, limited blue vinyl and CD.

Source: Invictus Productions official website.

New Ensnared album "Inimicus Generis Humani" to be out on February 14th

Back in March, after Ensnared offered a ferocious track titled "Disciples of the Whip" as a foretaste of their upcoming death metal attack, many of us have been looking forward to it, eager for more savagery. Now, some details are beginning to be revealed: the new album, that will be titled "Inimicus Generis Humani", will be released on February 14th, 2020 on Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records, and it is described as "a dark, dense, uncomfortable and intense listen over its 40 minute duration."
Its cover artwork can be seen below:

Ensnared share new track from upcoming album

"They have chosen weakness - let them weaken!
They have chosen offence - let them be offended!"

Appreciators of savage and chaotic Death metal have a more than valid reason to be excited today: Ensnared have shared a new track and announced it is taken from an upcoming album, whose title will be revealed at a later time, in conspiration with Invictus Productions, Dark Descent Records and Black Path Studios.
The song is called "Disciples of the Whip" and as a foretaste of what's to come, promises nothing but caustic and vicious Death metal excellence. Meanwhile, we can feast our ears into "Disciples of the Whip" below and keep an eye on Ensnared official facebook page for further updates on their new album.

"Dysangelium" by Ensnared to be out on May 12th

News for all the Death metal enthusiasts out there: on May 12th Ensnared (J.K. of Invidious on drums as most of you probably remember) are releasing their debut full-length titled “Dysangelium” on Invictus Productions / Dark Descent Records.
Two merciless-sounding preview tracks as preamble of what is to be unleashed are available on the label’s Bandcamp:





Pre-orders available on Invictus Productions for the CD version.