Belgian black metal outfit Coldborn shared ‘Silenced is the Choir of Euphoria’, a track from the upcoming album ‘The Unwritten Pages of Death’, set for release in May via Final Sacrifice Recs.
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News Posts
Belgian music project Entering Polaris dropped a 4th video for the single ‘Glacier’, a track from the double album ‘Atlantean Shores’ and ‘And silently The Age Did Pass’, released last year in June via Freya Records!
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Belgian melodic metal outfit is gearing up to release their highly anticipated new album ‘The Road to Oblivion’ in a couple of weeks and shared a video for the track ‘The Passenger’!
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Belgian post-metal quintet Hippotraktor is set to release their new album ‘Stasis’ via Pelagic Records in June! While you wait for this highly anticipated release, there is the video single ‘Silver Tongue’ for you to enjoy…
Belgian black metal project Coldborn announces the upcoming second album ‘The Unwritten Pages of Death’ and shares some teasers!
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Some time ago, CHVE announced the ‘Kalvarie’ album to be released via Relapse Records on May 31st and shared a teaser of what to expect. Pre-orders available right now!
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Belgian symphonic metal unit Cathubodua released their new album ‘Interbellum’ last Friday via Massacre Records, and shared a music video for ‘Amidst Gods’ to celebrate!
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Chilean/Belgian vocal powerhouse Dani Hart unleashed the first new single ‘After I’m Gone’, a track from her upcoming EP ‘Slaying Bluebeard’, scheduled for release later this year!
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Belgian symphonic metal outfit Cathubodua shares the new single/video ‘Effigy Of Aftermath’, another track from their upcoming new album ‘Interbellum’, set for release via Massacre Records on February 23!
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New Belgian metal band Throne of Thorns, featuring members of Ostrogoth and Reject The Sickness, released their 2nd single ‘Atomic Retribution’, from the upcoming debut album ‘Converging Parallel Worlds’ set for release next month via Rock Of Angels Records!
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Album Reviews
‘Vault Of Horrors’ is coming in heavy with killer songs and a long, impressive list of guest appearances! Don’t miss out on the 12th full-length release of Aborted, out via Nuclear Blast!
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Just in time to be put under the Christmas tree comes Serpents Oath’s final panel to their Luciferian triptych. ‘Revelation’ is unrelenting black metal fury, full of fire and brimstone and a bright flame for the Belgian black metal scene. Out on December 20 via Odium Records and highly recommended for fans of modern sounding old school black metal in the vein of for instance Watain.
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Belgian death metal powerhouse Carnation is one of the few bands to tackle its style with the precise sound of Swedish death metal, while maintaining a signature sound and daring to experiment with things from time to time. Their third, and massive album “Cursed Mortality” is out now, via Season of Mist, and one you won’t want to miss out on as one of the best releases of the year in our books!
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After 5 long years ‘An Unbiblical Paradigm’ is unleashed, the new album of the Belgian symphonic deathcore formation When Plagues Collide. Out on April 6 via Necktwister Agency, it’s an album that is both devastating and brutal with some excellent drum work, insane vocal work and brutal riffs, breakdowns included.
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On Hexa Mera’s new album ‘Methuselarity Part 1’, the music is solid and strong, carried on a bed of melodies, and is honestly beautiful to listen to. The album comes out this Saturday March 18 and the band will be doing a release show in Nijdorp, Opwijk on the same day! Be sure to check them out and hear this solid piece of music being played live for the first time.
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Breaking free from the mold, Wiegedood has created a musical masterpiece of discomfort, extremes and harshness!
Great rock by the talented guys from Beyond The Labyrinth, both seated in history and contemporary sounds!
Off The Cross shows that they’re a fresh wind in the scene with ‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’ and here to stay!
Join the Cult of Scarecrow on their debut full length ‘Tales of the Sacrosanct Man’ for some groove fueled grungy heavy metal, out now on Wormholedeath.
Thronum Vrondor on their fourth album has combined subtle atmosphere and a twisted concoction of modern melodic black metal.
Photo Reports
A couple of weeks ago, Ektomorf brought their ‘Vivid Black Over Europe Tour 2024’ to the South of Heaven venue in Bilzen, Belgium, and supported by Inmate, Serpents and Tag My Heart brought the house down!
Upstart pagan folk organisers Idavoll hosted a second edition of their “Hobgoblin’s Hollow” event, filled with board games & pagan folk, this time provided by Seed & Eleni Neldë!
The year got off with a good start at our very own Asgaard venue with killer performances by Gravekvlt, Bokkerijders and Traquenard! A night in collaboration with Return Bookings!
Extreme was on tour throughout Europe to present us their brand-new album “Six” and brought The Last Internationale with them as a support act. We caught their high energy shows at their stop at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium!
On the 10th anniversary edition of the Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past, they did what they do best yet again: bringing the old school to a stage near you with an impressive line-up of Angel Witch, Onslaught, Exumer, Vengeance, Witchfynde, Hitten, Existance, Steelover, and Toledo Steel!
True Crime industrial rock band SKYND has been on tour in Europe for a while now, and we caught them performing live in the Trix club, in Antwerp, with Knife Bride as support!
Perhaps less heavy than we are used to on our website. Nevertheless, DIRK. made it a fantastic indie rock evening in Ghent. Warmed up by Sad Boys Klub and John Lemon, the well-filled VIERNULVIER venue had a great time.
Of course, we were present again at Alcatraz Festival, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible. But seeing so many people having the times of their lives pulled our cameras away from the bands regularly, capturing the great community and atmosphere you could find all over the place!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!
