Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that after over a decade, we can finally release "...Towards Doom...", the debut album by Vancouver's bestial black metal punks Deathwinds on vinyl and digital formats (after the CD and tape formats were released earlier this year by Headsplit Records).
"...Towards Doom..." reopens the gates to an unholy dominion of chaos cleansed in nuclear vice. Casting the listener back to a dark age of primitivism and savagery, on the long-awaited debut long player the Canadian war-punk horde invoke the legend of bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Discharge, Doom, Black Witchery and Blasphemy to summon an apocalyptic twilight of destruction. The original core lineup of Bestial Desolator on drums (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Temple of Abandonment) and of Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty.
"...Towards Doom..." will finally see its release on vinyl and digital via Sentient Ruin worldwide on October 3 2025, with all formats now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Deathwinds was formed by Bestial Desolator on drums, Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals, and Filth Destroyer on bass, in Vancouver, Canada around 2013, spawned from the city’s sprawling and legendary punk and black/death metal scene; the same one that vomited out bands like Necroholocaust, Blasphemy, Death Worship, Antichrist, and Mass Grave, among many others. Their debut “Endless Wastelands” demo tape appeared in 2014 via Vault of Dried Bones, showcasing the band’s unique fusion of primitive bestial black metal and punk, with select live assaults unleashing chaos in their home town and establishing them as a lethal and pestilent force, before the band went dormant for almost ten years as members focused on other projects like Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker and Encoffinate. Deathwinds then re-emered out of nowhere in 2023, just as unexpectedly as they had vanished a decade prior, with the “Ripping Annihilation” sophomore demo tape, released that year by Headsplit Records. This release revealed the band being joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea) replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, and embodied as an even more primitive and extreme entity than before, with influences by Black Witchery and Hellhammer ever so prominent and accentuating the band’s feral primitivism. With a fully defined sound entirely their own and a new lineup assembled to trample crowds to death, Deathwinds thus returned evolved into its most abhorrent shape and revived to its most destructive intents. The inevitable then materiazlied with the band’s crowning abomination, the “…Towards Doom…” debut full-length album, ten years in the making, and packed with almost forty minutes of grinding, blasphemous, bestial extreme metal-punk vomited from the outer realms of the apocalypse, released in mid-2024 again by Headsplit on MC/CD, and shortly after by Sentient Ruin on vinyl and digital formats.