Besides starting the new year properly looking to the future, this month we’re also still looking back at all the awesomeness that 2023 brought us. One of those awsome things was the already 3rd edition of the by Bloodred Hourglass curated festival Black Box Mikkeli. They were able to bring a killer line-up again on the 2nd day of their event with besides a fantastic show by themselves, Insomnium, Gaerea, Balance Breach, I Am Your God and Lastout!

Dutch black metal institution Funeral Winds revealed ‘Birthed by Pure Malevolence’, the first track from the upcoming album ‘333’, set for release on January 26th via Osmose Productions!

Dutch/Belgian black-doom project Stuporous shared the new track ‘Never Let Me Go’, another one revealed from their highly anticipated debut album ‘Asylum’s Lament’, set for release on January 25th via Void Wanderer Productions and War Productions!

Finnish black metallers Hollow Woods shared the new track ‘Night Burns Through’ from their upcoming album ‘Like Twisted Bones of Fallen Giants’, set for release in February via Signal Rex!

British heavy metallers Coltre share the new track ‘Rat Race’, another track revealed from their upcoming debut album ‘To Watch With Hands… To Touch With Eyes’, set for release via Dying Victims Productions next month!

Black metal/crust punk outfit Dödsrit set the release date for new album ‘Nocturnal Will’ on March 22nd via Wolves of Hades and reveal first track ‘Celestial Will’!

From the cold dank fog of Portland, Oregon re-emerges death metal unit Petrification with their highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Sever Sacred Light’, set for release next month via Svart Records! Of which a second single ‘Sepulchral Lesions’ is out now!

Death metal battalion Vitriol unleashed its third new single ‘Shame and Its Afterbirth’, alongside a play through video, which is the opening track from their upcoming album ‘Suffer & Become’, set for release on January 26th via Century Media Records!