Finland’s bestial black-death metal trio HOC EST BELLUM have signed with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut full-length album. Conceived as an act of ruthless sonic terrorism, the record stands as a militant manifestation of black-death metal, unleashing its assault like a formation of dive bombers tearing through the sky and leaving devastation in their wake.
The album embraces a warm, organic sound that evokes tangible and hostile landscapes, rejecting the sterile and harmless production approaches that characterize much of today’s metal. Instead, it embodies a spirit of pure extremism and uncompromising violence, channeling raw intensity into a work that feels immediate, physical and destructive.
Further details about the album and its first single will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Burning with Luciferian hunger and baptized in nuclear horror, HOC EST BELLUM rose from the ashes in 2022. Based between Helsinki and Turku, the power trio unleashes a savage blend of grinding and bestial black/death chaos, channeling a sound that is both primitive and devastatingly direct. Their music thrives on raw aggression and ritualistic intensity, forged in an atmosphere of apocalyptic dread, satanic hostility and visions of mankind’s imminent extinction.
The band’s first release, the aptly titled “Demo 2023”, introduced this extermination squad to the underground with a display of feral brutality and uncompromising violence. The recording quickly established HOC EST BELLUM as a force devoted to the most extreme and unrelenting expressions of black/death metal, delivering warlike hymns steeped in filth, blasphemy and destructive fervor.
The band’s debut full-length will be released by Time To Kill Records in 2026. The album continues on the path of the bestial onslaught paved on the aforementioned demo, while adding to the relentless attack elements of dark atmospheric passages seeping with malevolent and poisonous aura.
Antichrist elitists rise. This is black metal terror.
Line-up:
Devouring Doommouth of Lunar Extinction and Nuclear Propaganda – Black vomit prophecies of homo sapiennihilation & aural low frequency desecration
Rituäl Vömitist – Bonegrinding hellsaw sodomy
R. Charon – Morningstars of putrefaction & doom ritual chants
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