15 OCTOBER 2008

Asphyxiate Recordings releases will soon be widely available across the United States with an exclusive distribution deal signed with Relapse Records. All forthcoming and current releases will see wide distribution to all corners of the States.


With this news comes the availability of our releases into major Australian music stores via Modern Invasion Distribution.

01 OCTOBER 2008
New stock from Norma Evangelium Diaboli will arrive next week. Some titles include all Watain albums re-issued on PIC 12" LP, Deathspell Omega vinyls and more.

Mailorder updated with new titles including vinyl from Blood Harvest, Hell's Headbangers and numerous other titles from Desater, Immolation, Nunslaughter, Profanatica, Bestial Mockery and Cutthroat! check it out in the SHOP.

ANAL BLASPHEMY album goes to press this week. Released via subsiduary label Burial Ground Records and distributed by Asphyxiate Rec.

25 SEPTEMBER 2008
ANAL BLASPHEMY album will be in pressing this week. First 50 copies will come with bonus embroided logo patch.

19 SEPTEMBER 2008
The webshop is now operational again however only Australian customers will be able to proceed through checkout for the time being. Airmail is still be configured. Foreign customers should make their selections and email them to distro@NOSPAMasphyxiaterecordings.com.

I have uploaded a PDF from Decibel Magazine with an indepth feature in the Mexican underground scene! Features interviews with Oscar (Denial, Cenotaph, Shub Niggurath), Marko and Ivan (Denial). A great read for any real metal head.

The ANAL BLASPHEMY album goes to pressing this week. Some plans are in the works for some additional pieces to accompany the first XXX number of copies. Co-released with Burial Ground Records.

11 AUGUST 2008
Today we release AR017 vinyl edition and AR018.

AR017 DIOCLETIAN "Decimator" 12" MLP
Long awaited and highly acclaimed material from New Zealand's bestial goat's DICOLETIAN is now available on vinyl! In today's over populated underground with mediocre bands labelling themselves as "bestial", out of the smallest scenes in the world comes DIOCLETIAN raising a fist of defiance to all! Limited to 500. Images of die hard version HERE.

AR018 PAGANIZER "Born to be Buried Alive" CD
Here comes Swedish death metal! Rogga Johannsen (of Ribspreader and Demiurg fame) & co hit us all in the face with a violent smack of Swedish death metal excellence! You dont have highly polished, technical wank here, just pure crushing death metal of the highest calibre! Images of this release HERE.

We will be printing a run of official DAMAAR (Lbn) shirts in the near future.

06 AUGUST 2008
Now accepting pre orders for DIOCLETIAN "Decimator" 12" MLP and DIE HARD version.

HUGE CD clearance sale is on. Click HERE to view the list of CDs. $5aud each with minimum 5 Cds per order. Free postage to Australia and New Zealand. More info when you follow that link.

10 JULY 2008
PULVERIZED have unveiled the title to their upcoming second album on AR, titled "Evlark Splendour".

DIOCLETIAN test press' arrived and sounds bestial has hell! Pre-orders for die hard editions will be announced shortly.

29 JUNE 2008
PAGANIZER's "Born to be Buried Alive" will be out on JULY 20. We are looking for strong distributors in the UK/EURO, USA and SOUTH AMERICAS. Get in touch for great wholesale distribution prices and in some cases trade deals. You can find two sample tracks from the upcoming CD in the audio chamber of this website.

In other Swedish news. Asphyxiate Recordings and MR. DEATH have come to an agreement for an album in 2009 and possible 7" EP in latter months of this year. MR. DEATH features ex TIAMAT, TREBLINKA and EXPULSION (Swe) members. Pure Swedish death metal like the old masters GRAVE and the new DEATH BREATH and more! Check them out HERE.

OSMOSE PRODUCTION's will officiall re-issue ELYSIAN BLAZE albums "Beneath Silent Faces" and "Levitating the Carnal" on CD for European regions. You will find these two blackened funeral doom masterpieces available in all corners of Europe very soon. "Beneath Silent Faces" has been re-worked with new artwork to reconvey the pure darkness emitting from this recording. A Re-issue with the re-worked artwork will occur on AR in coming months. OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS website.

DIOCLETIAN's "Decimator" recording has been sent to the USA for vinyl pressing. First 100 copies on 200g virgin vinyl on white with bonus patch, insert and A2 poster. The remaining 400 on 200g virgin vinyl on black with insert. The vinyls will be housed in a thick 350gsm reverse board finished sleeve with 3mm spine. Pure quality for one of the BEST underground forces alive!

In further DIOCLETIAN news, you are urged to make your presecnce known at their newly unveiled web portal at www.doomcult.net where you will find relics relating to DIOCLETIAN, VASSAFOR, WITCHRIST and more.

The shop will be stocked with a small number of NECROS CHRISTOS "Triune Impurity Rites" 12" DLP's next week. Get in touch to pre-order a copy. One of the best around playing dark ritualistic death metal.

12 JUNE 2008
Webshop has been updated with Shackles CDs back in stock and other titles such as Ignivomous MLPs and EPs, Drowned MLP, Sanguis Imperem MCDs (currently supporting GOTH on their USA tour) anda whole lot more...

21 APRIL 2008
PULVERIZED (Mex) signs with Asphyxiate Rec...

Pulverized from Mexico will work with Asphyxiate Recordings for their next full length album Crushing, violent and innovative death metal for maniacs possessed by the likes of Incantation, Morbid Angel and more sinister technical death metal without losing the pure underground touch. Pulverized released their debut album in 2002 titled "Spheres of Depraved Philosophy" on The Art Records.

Pulverized have possessed thousands across the globe with their violent death metal music, touring Europe and playing along side the likes of like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Exhumed, Incantation, Monstrosity, Vital Remains, Malevolent Creation, Rotting Christ, Pandemia, and the best from Mexico like Disgorge, Cenotaph, Anarchus, Under Moonlight Sadness, Pigsty, Warcrusher, Ravager, Hacavitz and many more… Check out some PULVERIZED tracks at their myspace page HERE.

06 APRIL 2008
DENIAL will be supporting the legendary MASSACRE on their South American leg along with DENIAL FIEND (usa). Flyer with date and further information viewable upon entry.

18 MARCH 2008
DENIAL will enter the studio June 20th to begin recording of the forthcoming album "Catacombs of the Grotesque". Death metal maestro Dan Swanö of Bloodbath, Edge of Sanity and Katatonia fame will master the album. Release date to be announced soon. Check out DENIAL's myspace page HERE.

OLD NEWS HERE