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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Australian blackened heavy metal collective Black Lava announced their upcoming new album ‘The Savage Winds to Wisdom’ set to be released in July and unleashed a first taste of the darkness to come with the single ‘Ironclad Sarcophagus’!
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Finnish black metallers Kratti shared the new track ‘Haudanvartija’, a second one to be revealed from the band’s upcoming debut album ‘Matka Kohti Kosmista’ set for release in May via Signal Rex!
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SVNEATR announced their new album ‘Never Return’ to be released next month via Prosthetic Records and unleashed a video for the title track!
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Polish black metal outfit Blaze of Perdition released the new single ‘Przez rany’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Upharsin’, set for release next week via Metal Blade Records!
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Finnish black metal outfit Nightside set the release date for their comeback album ‘Death From the North’ on May 24 via Purity Through Fire and unveiled the title track as a first taste!
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The esteemed Dutch metal band Slechtvalk signed with MDD Records for the release of their upcoming album this fall, the first after an 8-year hiatus since their last release!
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New Finnish black metal entity Night Shall Drape Us burn the black flame on the latest unveiled track ‘Ashes of Men’, from the upcoming debut album ‘Lunatic Choir’, set for release by the end of the month via Season of Mist!
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German black metal outfit Naxen released a lyric video for the track ‘To Writhe In The Womb Of Night’ from their upcoming album ‘Descending Into A Deeper Darkness’, set for release in May via Vendetta Records!
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Italian black metal act Darkend signs to Time to Kill Records and announces to be releasing their fifth album ‘Viaticum’ later this year!
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Turmion Kätilöt came to Tampere’s Pakkahuone for a big Easter party. Along came Japanese black metal legends Sigh and Finnish melodeath doomsters Marianas Rest. An event by Nem Agency and Tullikamari Tampere.
In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!
The El Corazon venue in the center of Seattle came alive with a burst of energy when Greek extreme metal legends Rotting Christ took over the stage there a couple of weeks ago!
Cradle of Filth came by for a couple of sold out shows in Finland on their massive Europe tour with Wednesday 13 and Sick N’ Beautiful and we caught this spectacle at Tampere’s Pakkahuone a couple of weeks back!
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!
Abbath and company came to Munich to show how black metal is done at the highest level. In their luggage came the American Toxic Holocaust and the Scottish Hellripper, who opened the night like two big explosions.
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!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Pictures of the visual spectacle that was Witch Club Satan in Helsinki.
