Turkey

Turkish death maelstrom Engulfed return with a mini-album the size of crashing heaven. Hear Vengeance of the Fallen in its entirety before it’s out next week.

Menacing Turkish black metal trio Zifir invite us to the “Empire of Worms,” from their new album, Demoniac Ethics.

Hear a new song from multi-national black metal duo Imha Tarikat.

Chaos reigns as Turkish black metal veterans The Sarcophagus travel Beyond This World’s Illusion on their new LP.

Every week, Decibel will premiere new material by bands of a heavy nature.  There’s no boundaries here, either.  Death, black, doom, sludge, progressive, stoner, retro, whatever!  It’s all fair game.  What’s this section called?  DEMO:LISTEN, naturally.  This week we take a look at El Topo, an instrumental oddity hailing from Istanbul, Turkey.

If you are a regular Deciblog reader you’re probably wondering why we didn’t call out the new Decimation track name in the headline. Well, let’s just say it’s a bit of a tongue twister: “Devilish Domain Vortex in the Gloom of Wicked Ziggura.” Wait, what? That’s a verbal flourish that would make Willy Wonka proud….