Italian Death/Doom flag bearers Into Darkness to release ‘First Encounters’ on 7″ EP for the first time through the WolfKult Religion label. The two-tracker will be released on Saturday September 9th 2023 at their show with Dutch Ancient Death Metal stalwarts Pentacle and Spanish deathsters Apparition at Centrale Rock Pub located in Erba, Italy.

Other news from Into Darkness: the 12″ vinyl edition of the bands’ ‘Cassini – Huygens’ EP will see the light of day later this year through Invictus Productions.

We already reviewed the ‘Cassini – Huygens’ EP, which was released by Unholy Domain Records on CD and Cassette formats earlier this year, and described it as : “Under her direction, Doomed Warrior has always steered a more slow Doom Metal-like course in the land of relatively simpler Old School Death Metal. She did once say that Asphyx is one of her biggest inspirations, and that is definitely audible… The riff-driven Death Metal is still on the slow side but has some forays into mid-tempo here and there with her shrill grunts further completing the Asphyx comparison. Incidentally in the vocal department, when she seems to shake off her Asphyx fascination a bit, she sounds remarkably like Cadaveria in her heyday in Opera IX.”

In our last interview with Into Darkness, main woman Doomed Warrior mentioned her, mainly Dutch, influences: “I was inspired by Sinister, Thanatos, Acrostichon, Beyond Belief, and something also by the German scene – early Morgoth, to say one.”

Other news from WolfKult Religion: the label will release a 7″ vinyl version of the 2021 2-track demo from Dutch seafarers Stormbreker later this year.

More info: Into Darkness; WolfKult Religion;