Danish symphonic black metal outfit Lamentari today released their eagerly awaited debut album ‘Ex Umbra In Lucem’!
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Symphonic extreme metal outfit Paradise In Flames meld classical and metal music in new video single ‘Concerto No 6 Minor, Cold Spring’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Blindness’ set for release in June!
Swedish symphonic extreme metal outfit Zornheym announced their new drummer Qual and unleashed the new video single ‘None For All’ via Noble Demon Records last week!
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Operatic/symphonic black metal outfit Folterkammer’s sophomore album ‘Weibermacht’ has roots that are embedded in the European sound of 90s black metal. Out on Century Media.
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Symphonic black metal act Vesperian Sorrow is one of the fewer ones that doesn’t sound like any other U.S. black metal band. Their fifth studio album ‘Awaken the Greylight’ presents their modern symphonic clichés. Out on Black Lion Records.
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The debut full-length album of Secrets, “Towards the Nightside”, captures the Norwegian black metal majesty in an unforgettable performance, the album comes highly recommended for fans of Emperor, Odium, and Limbonic Art. It is a fantastic album finely crafted by members of Gardsghastr, Chaos Moon and Ars Hmu, and offers a masterpiece of symphonic black metal, out now on Amor Fati Productions since January 23rd.
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Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
Nem Agency’s Melancholy Mass Festival made Finland’s dark winter nights just a bit better by bringing us Septicflesh, …And Oceans, Vorna, Assemble The Chariots and Voidfallen on the stage in Tampere and Helsinki.
Finnish symphonic black metal collective Vargrav presents its third opus entitled “The Nigthold”, and resuscitates the principles of symphonic black metal with superior quality, out via Werewolf Records on December 15th.
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Dimmu Borgir shared their take on Deep Purple’s ‘Perfect Strangers’, a track from their upcoming cover album ‘Imspiratio Profanus’, set for release next month via Nuclear Blast!
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