UK blackgaze rising stars Æl-Fierlen have released their colossal debut album ‘All Is Far Away’ last Friday and celebrated with a gorgeous and captivating music video for the closing epic ‘Ællmiht’!

Put your raincoats on as Krigsgrav’s eighth studio album ’Stormcaller’ is predicting some very heavy blackened thunderstorms. Pouring down on you via Willowtip Records since last Friday!

Who says festival season ends with summer? In Finland, the dark months come alive with music: experience the true punk spirit at HKI SKEPU FEST (starting tonight), get in touch with your ancestors and nature at Pakanafestarit, discover new talent at Lost In Music, embrace the shadows at Hellsinki Industrial Festival, sail into chaos with the Hellsinki Metal Cruise, sink into sorrow at Melancholy Mass Festivals, and feel the fire indoors at John Smith Rock Frozen. When the nights are long, Finland turns the volume up.

Dutch purveyors of esoteric black metal Terzij De Horde signed with Church Road Records for the release of their new album ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone’ in October and shared a first single with ‘The Shadows Of Prefiguration’!

Der Weg Einer Freiheit revealed ‘Marter’, the opening descent into the torment and transcendence on their upcoming album ‘Innern’, out next month via Season of Mist!

Muvitium’s third studio album ‘Through the Veil of Medieval Prophecies’ offers an epic dark fantasy styled black metal rooted in the 90s aesthetics. Released via Medieval Prophecy Records.

After blowing us away this past weekend at Alcatraz Festival, Gaerea is announcing to have a new home with Century Media Records and share the new single ‘Submerged’ to celebrate!

Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the fourth day of this year’s edition, with Crypta, Hanabie., Brujeria, Harakiri For The Sky, King Woman, Gost, Hellbutcher and Priest because they’re more than worth it!