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Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the signing of UK-based hardcore duo, DEATH GOALS. The band self-released their debut album, The Horrible and The Miserable, this summer, and today are premiering a new video for the album track Helen Keller Is Teaching Me How To Talk To Boys. Prosthetic Records will be working with DEATH GOALS on future releases, in the meantime The Horrible and The Miserable is available to purchase here.

PUPIL SLICER have today shared a live performance of Converge's Concubine - taken from their recent Knotfest performance. Putting their own spin on the mathcore classic, originally released on Converge's seminal Jane Doe album, you can watch PUPIL SLICER's frenetic take on the song below.

REAPING ASMODEIA have today released Dreamcaster - the third single to be taken from their upcoming third album, Darkened Infinity, due for release via Prosthetic Records on October 15. The Minneapolis trio are also today premiering the track's accompanying music video via Distorted Sound. The clip for Dreamcaster showcases the technical death metal group's more expansive and transcendental elements as futuristic and otherworldly shots intersperse with performance footage.

European technical power metal quintet ETERNITY’S END are today premiering their new single, Deathrider, and an accompanying visualiser via Metal Injection. Deathrider is the second single to be taken from the band's upcoming third album, Embers Of War, due for release on November 26 via Prosthetic Records.

JOING THE SERVERThe day is almost here! Technical death metal fans around the globe, eager to hear the new offering from COGNIZANCE - the wait is nearly over. But if you’re extra keen, and Friday seems too far away, you can check out Upheaval in full a day early! We’ll be hosting a full album stream via the Prosthetic Records discord server tomorrow - Thursday, September 23 - at 6pm UK time (that’s 1pm on the East Coast, 10am on the West Coast). Click the button below to join the server ahead of the listening session tomorrow. The band will be online throughout, so feel free to fire any COGNIZANCE questions their way as you listen in.

JOIN THE PROSTHETIC DISCORD SERVER

Feel free to stick around on the discord too - we only recently set it up, so it’s still a new community; your input can help shape it! This is the first listening event we’re hosting there, and hopefully it won’t be the last. Let us know what you want to see more of - your heavy metal wish is our command!

If you can’t make the listening session, don’t despair! Upheaval will be available to stream on all digital platforms on Friday and - of course - available to purchase in a physical format too! CLICK HERE to pre-order your COGNIZANCE goodies! Praise for Upheaval is already rolling in, with Metal Hammer describing it as an ‘incisive, muscular affair’. Get ready to bang your damn head.

FOUR STROKE BARON are today premiering the third single from their upcoming album, Classics, via Knotfest - titled Khera. The music video sees FOUR STROKE BARON stranded in a desert purgatory with a meta narrative of the Reno, NV duo rewatching their previously released videos. The compelling visual only heightens the band's signature progressive rock and pop hooks, continuing Classics' lyrical narrative.

Leeds, UK via Graz, Austria based band COGNIZANCE are today premiering their latest single, Oneiric, via Metal Injection. Accompanying the premiere COGNIZANCE have shared a performance clip of the song, showcasing the bands technical prowess and airtight musicianship. Oneiric is the third track to be taken from the death metal band's upcoming sophomore album, Upheaval, due out via Prosthetic Records on September 24. Oneiric will be available via all streaming services on Friday, September 10.

Nottingham, UK's BEYOND GRACE have today released their sophomore album, Our Kingdom Undone, via Prosthetic Records. The full length sees BEYOND GRACE further expand on their modern death metal sound, blending conceptually ambitious songwriting with intricate technicality as they explore both the personal and political. In celebration of Our Kingdom Undone's release, the quintet are livestreaming their record release show today (September 3), with support from Lunas Call, via the Prosthetic Records YouTube channel at 7:30pm BST / 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST.

US death metal band, UNDEATH are today streaming a new track - titled Diemented Dissection - via Decibel Magazine. Originally released as part of Decibel's Flexi Series, Diemented Dissection follows the Rochester, NY group's 2020 debut full length - Lesions of a Different Kind - and is streaming ahead of the start of their September and October North American tour alongside The Black Dahlia Murder, After The Burial, Carnifex and Rivers of Nihil.

LISTEN TO DIEMENTED DISSECTION VIA DECIBEL HERE.

Speaking on the song, UNDEATH comment: "We wrote and recorded Diemented Dissection specifically for the Decibel Flexi Series. It’s easily one of our fastest songs and it’s a total barnburner the whole damn time. Hope you dig it! Destroy your whole living room to this shit.”

Diemented Dissection is the first piece of newly recorded material since the band upgraded to a five-piece. The band has been working on new material for release in 2022 - more news will be available in the coming months.

Revisit Lesions of a Different Kind here.

REAPING ASMODEIA are today premiering their brand new single, Simulacra, via Metal.de. Simulacra is the second single to be taken from the Minneapolis, MN trio’s upcoming third album, Darkened Infinity, due for release via Prosthetic Records on October 15. The track is another exploration of Darkened Infinity’s conceptual story of transcendence and consciousness, with Simulacra following the album protagonist’s descent into a distorted reality of sleeplessness and fear.