HEAVING EARTH
Darkness of God CD
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Release date: May 27, 2022.
Jewelcase edition with 12 sided booklet. Black polycarbonate CD.



Far too often, we are asked to settle for the mediocre and the uninspired - to accept that our existence will be a miserable slog of workaday tedium. This is the expectation foisted upon us by life in the 21st century. And sadly, too many artists in scenes that are supposed to embody the spirit of extremity and opposition to trends are happy to oblige. Prague's HEAVING EARTH is not among them.

Since their crushing 2010 debut Diabolic Prophecies, and through the blistering 2015 follow-up Denouncing the Holy Throne, HEAVING EARTH have pushed the envelope of intensity and creativity in their style of chthonian death metal. Now, after a seven-year wait, with a new recording lineup, they have returned with Darkness of God, an album that represents an unprecedented evolution for death metal.

Darkness of God, from the opening doom-infused reverberations and sudden blasting onslaught of "Violent Gospels (Ordination of the Holy Trinity)," to the dizzying lead melodies of instrumental "Earthly Kingdom of God in Ruins," to the unnerving clean guitar strums at the close of "Woeful Redemption," is an album that abhors comfort and complacency.

Every riff slithers, warps and twists through multiple iterations before flowing seamlessly into the next. Every song is a distinct experience in its own right, yet fits perfectly into the greater mosaic of the album's 49-minute runtime.

While most of their peers are content to write songs as collections of disparate riffs with a tenuous sense of continuity, HEAVING EARTH have mastered the art of cohesive, yet challenging thorough composition. And though the band is unafraid to explore any avenue for inspiration, and employs dynamics to tremendous effect, they never cross the line into gimmickry and always remain firmly committed to the essence of infernal death metal.

One would be remiss not to mention the production work of Andrea Petucco (AD NAUSEAM) which impeccably captures both the ferocity and unpredictability of the album, with a mix that makes every detail of the instrumentation easy to discern, and a DR10 digital master that rejects the Loudness War standards, which have turned so many metal albums in the digital era into a brick-walled mess. 

Cover artwork by Sözo Tozö.

This is death metal for those who refuse to settle for "pretty good."
This is death metal forged in the belly of the underworld.
This is HEAVING EARTH.

Heaving Earth in times of Darkness of God is:
Marek Štembera - vocals
Tomáš Halama - guitars
Martin Meyer - guitars
Tomáš Ledvina - bass
Drums recorded by Giulio Galati at 16th Cellar Studio in autumn 2019.

1 x EVISCERATED - Eviscerated CD1 x REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER - Ascension CD1 x WRATHPRAYER / FORCE OF DARKNESS - Wrath of Darkness CD1 x ANUURUK - Unspeakable Uncreation CD1 x MISTIGMA - Omega Mortis MCD1 x TOTALITARIAN - De Arte Tragoediae Divinae CD1 x AZOTH - Purification Of Trinity CD1 x ULSECT - Ulsect DIGIPAK1 x OLD THRONE - Obscure Incantation To Karma Jesus CD1 x TRUE BLACK DAWN - Come the Colourless Dawn DIGIPAK1 x WEAK ASIDE - Forward Into Darkness CD1 x TROMORT - Camino de la Sangre CD1 x MEDICO PESTE - The Black Bile DIGIPAK1 x TOTALITARIAN
Kulturkampf / Los Von Rom EP DIGIPAK
1 x NALVAGE - Worship Dehumanization CD1 x SERPENTS OATH - Nihil CD1 x FUNERAL WINDS - Essence CD1 x ACHERONTAS / HORNA Atavistic Resurgence CD1 x SÓLSTAFIR - Endless Twilight Of Codependent DLP1 x EGGS OF GOMORRH - Outpregnate MCD1 x LECTERN - Precept of Delator CD1 x GAROTED
Bewitchment of the Dark Ages CD
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1 x MALICIOUS - Deranged Hexes CD1 x DEHUMAN REIGN - Descending Upon The Oblivious CD1 x PULVERIZED - Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus CD1 x ILL OMENED – Conflagration Roaring Hell CD1 x MYTHOS - Moulded in Clay MCD1 x DEATHRONATION - Exorchrism CD1 x EMINENT SHADOW - Final War LP1 x PUTRID - Antichrist Above CD1 x ASPHALT GRAVES - The New Primitive CD1 x THE AMENTA - Revelator DIGIPAK1 x THORNSPAWN - Wrath of War CD1 x ADVERSARIAL / PAROXSIHZEM - split CD2 x ABDICATE - Transcend Through Sacrifice CD1 x DESERTED FEAR - Kingdom of Worms CD1 x DEMENTOR - Damned CD1 x WOMBBATH - Choirs of the Fallen CD1 x BLASFEMIA - Nocturnal Astral Visions CD1 x SLAUGHTBBATH - Alchemical Warfare / Hail to Fire 2CD Bundle1 x SLAUGHTERDAY - Tyrants of Doom LP1 x ADE - Carthago Delenda Est CD1 x ALTAR - Dark Domains CD1 x INSORCIST - The Slaughter Of Divine Creed CD1 x SÓLSTAFIR - Endless Twilight Of Codependent DIGIPAK1 x DODSENGEL - Interquinox DIGIPAK1 x DEIVOS - Casus Belli CD1 x GUILD OF DESTRUCTION - We Are Vermin CD1 x NAEGLERIA FOWLERI - Odes To The Adorable Essence Of Putrefaction1 x DAKHMA - Passageways to Daena CD1 x VOMITOR - The Escalation LP1 x DYSYLUMN - Chaos Primordial DIGIPAK-EP