Thursday, November 29, 2007

OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL COMPILATION

Dear all,

We're looking out for old school death metal bands to participate in a compilation CD of old school true death metal bands (similar to the old gods like Incantation, Immolation, Dismember, Grave, Seance, Deicide, Obituary, Asphyx, Bolt Thrower..).

So, if you or anyone can give us a heads-up as to such bands which we should seriously look out for, do drop us an email or post your comments in our blog...much appreciated!

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Stuff for Sale/Trade

We have quite a bunch of licensed tape versions of killer stuff released in the 90s from labels like Earache, Nuclear Blast, Century Media and others.

Titles include those from Asphyx, Napalm Death, Death, Carcass, Benediction, Impiety, Surrender of Divinity, Obituary, Cancer, Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra and many more.

Email us for available titles and offer. Cool stuff which are as rare as a black sheep.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Support the Death Metal Bands!

Check out Drawn & Quartered, the Seattle old school death metal band who have just released their Hail Infernal Darkness opus on Moribund Cult.

They also have an interview with Nathan Birk in a recent issue of Metal Maniacs.

Good stuff, it has all the elements you would come to expect (and more!) from a well-executed death metal record - the punishing riffs, depths of hell grunts, piercing solos (yes, they have it!) and thundering double bass punishment!

This band needs YOUR support to buy their albums and make it worthwhile for their label to continue supporting them, be it in the form of an extended contract or a tour throughout North America.


Also, on the same note, check out Godless Rising, the latest evil incarnation of Jeff Gruslin and P. Flynn (formerly Vital Remains on their classik Let Us Pray LP). Crushing war-mongering death metal of the highest order!

They also have an interview in a recent issue of Metal Maniacs!!

Support!

Upcoming Releases

January 1, 2008

HAPPY METAL NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

A little update.

The following would be released this year (barring unforeseen circumstances) :

Black Plague/Drawn & Quartered - demos and rare recordings compilation CD with extras
Godless Rising - Battle Lords tape release with extras
Impiety - Formidonis Nex Cultus tape release with extras
Asphyx - Brand new t-shirt design with extras
Interment - Brand new t-shirt design with extras
Hacavitz - TBA
Zushakorn - demo CD with extras

More news to come when all is ready...



Glad to announce an upcoming release on my label with an old-school death metal band..won;t let the cat out of the bag just yet but expect something brutal and evil for sure..

It'll be a tape release, limited edition with a t-shirt and embroidered patch thrown in... more news as i get the stuff in from the band themselves..

*NOTE* We're planning a compilation album or sorts, death metal mostly, so anyone interested please feel free to drop us a link or mp3s to our email address : summers.end.records@gmail.com

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Old School

We would like to welcome everyone to our blog cum website for our metal label, Summers End Records. This shall serve as the umbrella label for our activities, which shall remain simply to release music which we enjoy personally.

Ultimately, the releases shall reflect our personal tastes as well as others (who would be so kind as to give us a heads-up to any band deemed good). For a start, we shall concentrate on our personal favourite genre i.e. death metal, black metal and thrash metal (in no particular order).

However, we must state that old-school (as our title above suggests) is the name of the game here, or simply we like how things sounded when they first started back in the early 90s (we're too young to go way back before that..). As such, death metal the Florida and Stockholm way is warmly welcomed within our label home. As for black metal, it's kind of a glut nowadays so it will remain highly selective to us unless it's something that truly catches our ear at first listen (unlikely but nonetheless possible..). Thrash/heavy metal is always welcomed, preferably the old-school Germanic style or those not unlike the old Mercyful Fate/King Diamond phase.

I hope readers will get into our choice of music and enjoy what we release as much as we do ourselves.

So, sit back and enjoy the ride...