On a Sunday autumn evening in Finland we saw total Polish death metal takeover of On The Rocks Helsinki with Vader, Hate and Thy Disease at on of the stops on the “Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022”! For a Sunday, there was quite the massacre unleashed in the pit!

Ukrainian black metal project Drudkh unveiled the new track ‘November’ and announced the upcoming new album ‘All Belong to the Night’ to be released in November via Season of Mist!

The Finnish avant-garde outfit Henget signed to Season of Mist for the release of their debut album in 2023!

The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!

Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!

‘The Suns of Perdition – Chapter III: The Astral Drain’ is a stunning offering from the Canadian black metal outfit Panzerfaust, who has captured the modern methods of experimental black metal with cinematic landscapes to truly manifest the beauty of creating a piece of immersing music. Out on Eisenwald.

Austria’s blackened death metal act Belphegor conjures us a demonic soundtrack to Walpurgis on its newest album ‘The Devils’ which is the band’s strongest release to date. The eight tracks offer atmospheric and epic qualities without sacrificing any of their trademark blackened aggression. Out on Nuclear Blast.

The international black metal collective Nordjevel unleashed yet another furious and all obliterating track with ‘Of Rats And Men’ from the upcoming Indie Recordings album ‘Gnavhòl’!

With singles from Wolfheart, Electric Callboy, Luna Kills, Aeveris and Bastarður we introduce our new article series in which we recommend and highlight some of the singles that really impressed us and stuck by us recently! More coming soon!