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- Aimless Death had to cancell their appearance at The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 4), Knockdown Brutality will replace them!

Sometimes things turn out differently than you think:
Unfortunately, Aimless Death have had to cancel their appearance at The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 4) at short notice due to a clash of dates. We will try to make up for the gig next year.
We have already found an adequate replacement for the guys!   

This band actually fits the ZMB like a glove, as they are actually their own metal battle. The guys from Knockdown Brutality skillfully mix different metal styles, which reflect the preferences of the band members, into a small but fine metal bastard. Classic elements meet well-dosed elements of death, groove and thrash metal, as well as grind and hardcore. You won't find clean vocals here. On the other hand, there's plenty to get your teeth into, so that almost everyone gets their money's worth!

- Acrid Death confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feuture!)

"Acrid Death is Frankfurt’s new HM-2 Death Metal Panzerfaust. Their debut album, Abominable Presence of Blight, released in February 2024, quickly garnered attention in the scene. For fans of OSDM bands like Dismember, Entombed, and Entrails."

- Demored confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feature!)

"Three maniacs founded DEMORED in 2012 in their hometown of Braunschweig with a clear mission: raw, uncompromising death metal in the spirit of the old school. With their debut EP "Slaughtering the Son of God (2014)" and the follow-up "Absolution Through Dissolution (2016)", they quickly made a name for themselves in the death metal underground.
Their first album "Sickening Dreams (2018)" cemented their status in the German death
metal scene - a merciless platter of furious riffs, dark melodies and
merciless rhythms. With several live shows behind them, the band continued to hone their
stage presence and deliver an unstoppable force.
In 2024, Demored returned with "Well of Liquid Souls" - an infernal death metal
projectile that combines old-school brutality with a dark atmosphere. The album is pure
destruction: massive sound, gripping songwriting and a menacing intensity that eats into the marrow all the way to."

- Digest confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feature!)

"There's not much to say. Listen to the music and DIE WITH A SPOON IN YOUR THROAT!" There is nothing more to say!

- Arkham Circle confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feature!)

"Arkham Circle stands for death metal that grinds forwards without compromise and takes no prisoners. Influenced by the old school death metal of the 90s, the band has found its own way of interpreting it over the years without sounding like another Swedish copy. The focus here is not on blastbeat attacks or technical gimmicks, but on the groove.
Even though the line-up carousel has turned a few times, the band remains true to itself and its style. They have now recorded the follow-up to their debut album ‘Exist To Exit’ from 2018 and released it in mid-September 2023. Here, too, the abysses of humanity are thematised.
The current EP ‘Weapons Of Choice’ will now also be unleashed live on the metal community before the band finally gets down to recording the next release. One or two new songs might also be on the setlist."

- Endlevel confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feuture!)

“Southern Germany has always been a guarantee for strong metal bands. Be it Destruction, Cypecore, Primal Fear, Fateful Finality, Traitor or Debauchery. The young savages from ENDLEVEL have now joined this ranks.
With their first album “Time To Kill”, which was released in 2017, they have already toured and devastated Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, France and actually every conceivable corner of Germany.
Now the guys are back with their second album “Weekend War” and are launching their second offensive. The 11 newly composed tracks contain everything that makes Endlevel what they are. Thrashy riffs with a death metal twist, guttural vocals and high thrash vocals meet rhythmic finesse and entertaining lyrics - what more could a metalhead's heart want?
Every track, full against the chewing bar, plus lots of beer and the weekend is still in your bones on Mondays! The 11 tracks mill their way into your ear canal with a carefree and at the same time brilliant production that is simply fun.
So if you like to mix your death metal with a bit of thrash metal and like bands like “Inhuman Condition”, “Bolt Thrower”, but also “Malevolent Creation” and a pinch of “Anthrax”, you should put “Endlevel - Weekend War” on your turntable very quickly and have your chewing bar massaged properly with one to 12 beers.”

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/1dGYVEbxNRm3MhAXzNo7XA

- Gefrierbrand confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feuture!)

“When the fog hovers over the dense forests of the Black Forest, you can't help but think of mystical places. Places full of legendary, ancient tales and fairy tales that have spooked many a child's heart.
What Gefrierbrand began with “Es war einmal...” is successfully continued with the current album “...vor langer Zeit”!
During the fateful years of the pandemic, the band never gave up, playing online shows, organizing seated concerts and tirelessly writing new songs.
They did the honors on large and small festival stages and delighted audiences at home and abroad.
With thoughts of past tours across Europe and support shows for various scene greats, Gefrierbrand are hungry like “The wolf for the seven little goats.”
“...vor langer Zeit” marks a milestone in the five musicians' band history, on a long road to the future!”

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/1CfSMHTjDgtOmaihl6j7Bl

- Lebensstille confirmed for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.6 (The double feuture!)

“Lebensstille is a post-black metal band from southern Germany that was founded in 2021. The band combines German lyrics with a mixture of shrieked, growled and shouted vocals about the dark side of life. The band's name is synonymous with depression. After the resounding success of their debut album “Wenn das Leben seinen Lauf nimmt...” from 2023 in the underground scene, they are back with a second release.”

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/1IkW4NG0jZChDSz74aoD1z

-Next Show Announcement:

On April, 4th we will play at Dirtfest at JaB in Nürtingen! Together with Chasing Fear, Abrasive and Pestilent Reign we will tear down the stage!

- New Show in July

We are joining the Line-Up of Wisdom Tooth Festival '25 in Bissingen in July! With great Bands like Grave Digger, Varg, The Butcher Sisters, Stillbirth, Groza, Rauhbein and many more!

- On February 20th, Arkham Circle is supporting Bewitched at Schwarzer Keiler Stuttgart

- Arkham Circle joins the Line Up of Metalnight Hohenmemmingen

On September 27th we will be part of the Metalnight in Hohenmemmingen. Together with Naughty Dogs, The Journey Back, Vanish, May The Tempest and Lacrimas Profundere: we will bring the place to boil!

- Arkham Circle wishes an awesome 2025!

Thanks to all the people, bands, organizers and venues that we were able to get to know and play at in 2024! We hope that you will remain loyal to us in 2025! Let's make the coming year just as awesome again!

- One Night Over The Abyss Pt. 6 is will be a double feature

The 6th edition of ONOTA will take place over 2 days on September the 12th and 13th, 2025. On these two days, a total of 8 death and black metal bands will hit the stage for you! You should also mark these dates in your calendar!

- latest band annoncements and final line up for The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 4)

We are happy to present you the grinders of Muggeseggel from Lörrach. The band is playing grindcore with a modern twist and Alemannic lyrics. And, as the headliner, the oldschool thrashers of Raw Ensemble from Ulm. The band revive the old days of thrash metal in a modern sound and will blow you away! The line up of the ZMB is now complete. The place is going to burn! So make a bold note of May 10th, 2025 in your calendar!

- first show for 2025 announced

On February 1st we will travel to Osnabrück to burn down the stage with Xiron, Fleshworks and Intöxicated at the Waking The Ghouls Metalfestival, at Jugendzentrum Westwerk!

- Aimless Death and Nachtschatten at The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 4)

The next two confirmations for the 4th ZMB are the death/thrashers of Aimless Death from Bayreuth. They offer you death metal with groovy thrash passages, so that there should be something for everyone who likes these two styles. Nachtschatten from Karsruhe play German-language melodic death metal, which they present with their own light show!

- another show for 2024 announced

On November 23rd we are sharing the stage with Überdosis (Deutschpunk from Ludwigsburg), In Vino Veritas (Swabian Speedrock from Murrhardt) and Escape The Labyrinth (Metalcore from southern Germany) at the Krach unterm Dach at Jugendzentrum Murrhardt!

- 2 more shows announced

Tonight (12.10.) we are playing very spontaneously at the Rocknight Ebnat (as a replacement for Voodoo Kiss), with Enslave The Chain and the AC/DC tribute act The Jack. Stagetime 20:30h.

On November 2nd we will be part of the Metalnight at the Epplehaus in Tübingen, together with our buddies from Bitterness and the Swiss band Disparaged.

Come and see us!

- New Merch for sale!

Our new shirts are here and can be ordered now.
In the course of this, we have also revised our back catalog and have lowered the prices again and you can get everything at crazy low prices. Orders to arkhamcircle@gmx.de
Only while stocks last!

- New bass player in our rows

In the future, Michael "Mikkey" Baumann will make the 4 strings of Arkham Circle swing. He is a metal fan with heart and soul and highly motivated to burn down the stages with us! Say hello to Mikkey!

- First Band Annoncement for The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 4)

Inverted Saint from Stuttgart confirmed for the ZMB. Old school black metal without modern frills, straight in your face. This is raw black metal, without keyboards or background samples, which is strongly oriented towards the heroes from Norway but doesn't close itself off to influences from other extreme genres.

- Some new Show announcements

We have a few new shows for you that you should definitely check out. 

On September 28th we will be supporting our friends from Apophis at Rock It in Aalen. Lost Sanctuary from Bremen and Die Kur from London will also be there to shake the moths out of your clothes!

On October 4th, we'll be playing the full death and grind package at the Alte Mälzerei in Regensburg, where we'll be tearing the place apart together with Feaces Christ, Digest and Sucking Leech at the Night Of The Ripping Death. 

On November 16th we will be part of the Polaris Release Tour of Nachtschatten together with Lebensstille at Sakrema in Pforzheim. 

In addition, there will be the 4th chapter of The Zinsholz Metal Battle for you on May 10th 2025. Once again, as the name suggests, at the Zentrum Zinsholz in Ostfildern-Ruit. The first bands will be announced shortly!

- We have one bad and one good news for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.5: Disgusting Perversion unfortunately have to cancel their gig for this year. We're sorry to everyone who was looking forward to their show.
But a replacement has already been found: Corpserot from Jena/Dresden will take over the slot and give you a good dose of Oldschool Death Metal. . Stay tuned!

- Protzo is no longer bass player for Arkham Circle! A replacement has already been found and we will introduce him shortly!

-New Merch is coming!

We have already announced that we want to offer you new merch. Now we have decided that we want to offer you zipper jackets as well as T-shirts and girlie shirts. The original plan to only offer zippers with an EP cover has been expanded to include a new design, so you have the option of choosing between the two variants or simply ordering both designs. We offer you the zippers in the sizes S-5XL in the VVK (with prepayment) for 38€ each for version “WOC” and 32€ for version “Eden” plus shipping costs. The zippers come on “Just Hoods” in black. By the way, the hoodies are also “vegan”
Pre-orders for the zippers please, exclusively, by mail to arkhamcircle@gmx.de Subject: Order Zipper Hoodie.
The reorder phase runs from today until 23:59 on July 5th. Delivery then probably from the middle/end of July!
Please indicate the following in your mail: Quantity, design (“WOC” and/or “Eden”) and the desired size(s). Also a delivery address to which we may send them.
You will then receive a confirmation email from us with the shipping costs and payment details.

By the way, the zippers are only available in advance and only against prepayment!

- German version:

Wir haben ja schon angekündigt, dass wir euch neues Merch anbieten wollen. Nun haben wir uns ja entschieden, dass wir euch, natürlich neben T- und Girlie-Shirts, auch Zipperjacken anbieten möchten. Der ursprüngliche Plan, nur Zipper mit EP Cover anzubieten, wurde um ein Motiv erweitert und so habt ihr die Möglichkeit zwischen den 2 Varianten zu wählen oder auch einfach beide Motive zu bestellen. Wir bieten euch die Zipper in den Größen S-5XL im VVK (mit Vorkasse) zu je 38€ für Version "WOC" und 32€ für die Version "Eden" zzgl. Versandkosten. Die Zipper kommen auf "Just Hoods" in Schwarz. Die Hoodies sind übrigens auch "vegan"
Vorbestellungen für die Zipper bitte, ausschließlich, per Mail an arkhamcircle@gmx.de Betreff: Bestellung Zipper Hoodie.
Die VVK Phase läuft von heute an, bis enschließlich 5. Juli 23:59Uhr. Lieferung dann vermutlich ab Mitte/Ende Juli!
Bitte gebt folgendes in eurer Mail an: Menge, Motiv ("WOC" und/oder "Eden") und die gewünschte(n) Größe(n). Dazu noch eine Lieferadresse, an die wir euch diese schicken dürfen.
Ihr bekommt darufhin von uns eine Bestätigungsmail mit den Versandkosten und den Zahlungsmodalitäten.

Die Zipper gibt es übrigens nur im Vorverkauf und nur gegen Vorkasse!

- On Saturday April 27th we'll present you The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 3), as usual, at the  Zentrum Zinsholz in Ostfildern-Ruit! Once again, 4 bands will show you where the metal hammer is hanging. Whether it's Black/Death/Doom by Obsidian Blade from Augsburg, Thrash-Death by Stealth Bomber from Sindelfingen, Old School Thrash by Ravager from Walsrode or simply good Death Metal by Fleshworks from Osnabrück, you'll find everything your metal heart desires here. Come along and burn down the house with us!
Doors: 19h, Entry: 20€

- This week on Saturday, we will play with our buddies from Gefrierbrand at the rock club The Cave in Amsterdam. So if you want to escape the family hustle and bustle over Easter, you should seriously consider a weekend trip to Amsterdam!

- Today, February 23rd, we will spontaneously play our first gig of the year. We will be filling in for Zementmord at Club Make, Sailerstraße 46, 70736 Fellbach, who unfortunately had to cancel due to health reasons.

- On March 9th we will play at Das Süd in Sindelfingen. We are joining a great Line-Up including Falling Meat, Decreate, Stealth Bomber and Team Tot.

- The Line Up for The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 3) and the One Night Over The Abyss Pt. 5 are complete! At ZMB Ch.3 we present Obsidian Blade (Black/Death/Doom/Augsburg), Decreate (Modern Death Metal/Stuttgart), Ravager (Thrash Metal/Walsrode) and Fleshworks (Death Metal/Osnabrück).  ONOTA Pt.5 offers the full death metal platter with Manus Mortis (Backnang), Disgusting Perversion (Kaufbeuren), Arkham Circle (Stuttgart), Feaces Christ (Regensburg) and Rise Of Kronos (Hamburg)

- On Friday, September 8th, from 8pm CET, our new video for "Another Dawn" will be launched on Youtube!

- On April 27th we will present The Zinsholz Metal Battle Chapter 3 and One Night Over The Abyss Pt.5 on September 14th. Both events will take place at the Zentrum Zinsholz in Ostfildern-Ruit!

- Our EP "Weapons Of Choice" is out now on a bunch of streaming channels like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music etc. and on CD. Get your copy on our Bandcamp Site or write an E-Mail to arkhamcircle@gmx.de

- On October 8th Arkham Circle will share the stage with the Black Metal Dudes from Inverted Saints and Cernunnos at Treff 9 in Heidenheim!

- We are part of the Upper Saw Festival at Festhalle Dotternhausen. With this 8 fantastic Bands: Enslave The Chain, Red To Grey, Black And Damned, Mission In Black, Apophis, Traitor and Brainstorm. Presale is already running! Visit upper-saw.de

- On September 15th we will be part of the Local Double Night at JUBEZ Karlsruhe with our friends of AXIT!

- Here we unveil for you today, the cover of the upcoming EP "Weapons Of Choice". Responsible for this is Victor Mac-Namara Riquelme aka Mac Slautherday, a Chilean artist and metal musician. He has created a fantastic work, with many small deatils that you can discover on the artwork.

- On September 23rd we will be part of the Upper Saw Festival in Dotternhausen near Balingen. Get your tickets in advance here as well! Available at reservix.de.
1 day, 9 bands! The other bands on the bill are Enslave The Chain, Red To Grey, Black & Damned, Apophis, Mission In Black, Traitor, Human Zoo and Brainstorm!

- We owe you the headliner of ONOTA Pt.4 here (sorry for being so lazy lately). The last band of this year will be Spearhead, a Bolt Thrower tribute band. Everyone who knows us also knows that we are a "bit" BT influenced. The original is no longer available for well known reasons, so we decided to bring a band that honors one of the best death metal bands of all time. So let's raise our horns for Spearhead!
Tickets are now on sale. Get yours for 20€ (+shipping) instead of 25€ at the box office! Just send us an email to arkhamcircle@gmx.de. You have the chance to win one of ten copies of our upcoming EP "Weapons Of Choice", which we raffle among all pre-sales.

- Our new EP "Weapons Of Choice" will be released at the ONOTA Pt.4 on September 16th. Among all pre-sold tickets, we raffle 10 copies of this EP

- The Line Up for the One Night Over The Abyss Pt.4 is almost complete. The following bands are confirmed so far: AXIT (Death Metal from Bretten), Andabata (Death Metal without guitars from Nürnberg), Arkham Circle (Groove-Death Metal from Stuttgart), WILT (Old School Death Metal from Herford), Plagueborne (Brutal Death Metal from Arnstadt). The headliner will be announced on Friday, April 14th. The presale for the tickets starts on April 29th at The Zinsholz Metal Battle (Chapter 2) or on May 1st via mail to arkhamcircle@gmx.de.

- On the 16th of September the One Night Over The Abyss goes into the next round. For the fourth time we present you at the Zentrum Zinsholz, bands from different areas of death metal that will make your blood boil! Six bands in the number, to be exact. Which of them will be there, we will tell you in the coming weeks. Be curious!

- On April 29th we will organize the 2nd Zinsholz Metal Battle at the Zentrum Zinsholz in Ruit. Team Tot (Sindelfingen), The Aeons Torn (Ulm), Therein (Geislingen) and Fateful Finality (Weil der Stadt) will leave no stone unturned and breathe life back into your tired bones. Be there!

- Two more gigs are confirmed for 2022. On November 12th we will play at Sonnenkeller in Balingen with Warmes Bier, Nekkromaniac and Asgard and on December 3rd. we will turn the Studentenzentrum Z10 in Karlsruhe upside down together with AXIT and our friends from Demorphed.

- There will be another Line Up change going on in the band. We will part with Alex on drums after the ONOTA Pt. 3 Gig in October. No bad blood between us just a few hundred kilometers. The new guy on the drums will be the second Michael in the band and he will join his first rehearsals this days with us!

- 2 new live shows are scheduled. On November 19th we will play at the Death And Black Metal Overkill at Sakrema in Pforzheim with Dogma Omega and Beast Of Damnation and on the weekend of May 26th/27th at the Devil's Covenant Fest 2023 at the EXIT Live Club in Schwedt with Jarl, Hangatyr, Shards Of A Lost World and many more

- Arkham Circle has a new permanent member on the bass. He listens to the name of Markus and is now the 3rd in row!

- Arkham Circle is part of the Gefrierfest at Kupferdächle in Pforzheim on March 5th 2022 with Dark Zodiak and Gefrierbrand. Eintritt frei!

-New Flyer for One Night Over The Abyss Pt.3 with a small Line-Up change is online. Godskill is new on the billing. They're playing instead of Virocracy.

- One Night Over The Abyss Pt. 3 has been rescheduled for Oct. 8, 2022!

- New Lyric Video coming soon! Check out our Youtube Channel for more Videos!

- Arkham Circle is now on Spotify - Check it out!