UK’s Blood Countess wages war on weakness and mediocrity with the black metal savagery that will come with upcoming album ‘Imperatrix Sanguinis’, out in April with Dominance of Darkness Records and revealed a first track with ‘Chains of Misdeed’!
Black metal outfit Doedsvangr unveiled the first strike from their upcoming album ‘Within The Flesh’ (out in April via Soulseller Records) with the track ‘Black Sun Dissolution’!
Swedish black/death metal outfit Speglas released the third and final single ‘Incessant Severance’ from their upcoming album ‘Endarkenment, Being & Death’, set for release next week’s Friday via Trust No One Recordings!
Last week, Mesopotamian metal masters Melechesh shared the new single ‘Raptors of Anzu’ from their upcoming EP ‘Sentinels of Shamash’, set for release with Reigning Phoenix Music in April!
Bizarrekult delivers another piece of raw post-black metal with new single ‘Avmakt’, the third and final track unveiled before the release of new album ‘Alt Som Finnes’, out on February 20 with Season of Mist!
Dutch black metal outfit Doodswens announce their new self-titled album set for release in April via Svart Records and shared the first single with ‘Driven By Death’!
Belgian atmospheric black doom outfit Splendidula releases new single and video ‘Kilte’ from upcoming album ‘Absentia’, set for release in April via Argonauta Records!
Finland’s symphonic black metal vanguard Vargrav unveiled the new track ‘Moonfrost Storms’, the second one to be revealed from upcoming fourth album ‘Dimension: Daemonium’, set for release in March with Werewolf Records!
Texas-based black metal alchemists Necrofier unleashes ‘Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path III’, the latest single from their upcoming album ‘Transcend Into Oblivion’, set for release at the end of this month with Metal Blade Records!
Polish extreme metal pioneers Behemoth have unleashed a stunning and fierce new music video for the track ‘Nomen Barbarvm’, from their latest album ‘The Shit Ov God’, in anticipation of touring starting in about a week!
“Never Surrender” is much of a continuation to its predecessor but the quartet stampedes into a wildfire like tempos, the songs are fast, relentlessly aggressive, and infectious. Deströyer 666 has returned with impressive work that conveys the classic hallmarks of heavy/speed and blackened thrash metal, released via Season of Mist.
Darkthrone on its 20th album tackles the old era of traditional metal in a very conventional method. Although some of the tracks may lack the raw organic sound, nevertheless “Astral Fortress” is an epic blackened and doom-laden heavy metal record that is gritty and bold to its core! Out via Peaceville Records.
Swiss black metal duo Ateiggär on the first studio album “Tyrannemord” incorporates something rare that makes their music one of a kind, this is a great Nordic-inspired piece of a symphonic black metal that comes similar to bands like Kvist. Out via Eisenwald.
“Naa Skrider Natten Sort” is without doubt one of the best albums in black metal this year, Djevel has aptly presented themselves as true disciples next to bands like Whoredom Rife and Mare. With its beautiful atmosphere and grim melodies it is an epic black metal album with the songwriting and composition making it an instant classic. Out since today via Aftermath Music.
Ymir’s sophomore release “Aeons of Sorrow” invokes the cold icy melodies of the mid-nineties Finnish black metal, mastermind Vrasjarn maintains the characteristic sound of the band and for this reason, the new album will appeal to many fans of the genre. Released via Werewolf Records.
”Viscera” is a sonic nightmare sustained by the abrasive elements of blackened death doom, Strigoi depicts utter bleakness and redefines its style where the band takes a logical step forward from the debut album. Released via Season of Mist.
The eighth album from the Italian satanic coven Abhor brings dark morbid tunes of unholy mass with a great mixture of first-wave black metal sound that is similar to bands like Mortuary Drape, Mystifier, Death SS, and Samael, if you are into the occult style of black then you must check ‘Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi)’, released via Iron Bonehead Productions!
Finnish renowned veterans L.L. (all instruments), and M.M. (Vocals and lyrics) present their symphonic oeuvre under the moniker of Pestilent Hex. Debut album “Ashen Abhorrence” finds its way into the magical hallmarks of melodic/symphonic black metal of the early nineties and was released with Debemur Morti Productions.
Finnish black outfit Moonlight Sorcery’s musical quest wanders across the creative hallmarks of the Scandinavian black metal, the debut EP “Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity” offers a refreshing and inspirational muse to fans of melodic black metal, out via Avantgarde Music!
Archgoat perfectly embodies the ancient aesthetic of war metal in their latest four-track EP “All Christianity Ends” which plunges you into the morbid realm of the Luciferian darkness, and was released via Debemur Morti Productions!
Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!
Pics of the second day of SaariHelvetti, one of the only festivals in Finland during the summer of 2020. Check it out!
Pictures of a great local and underground metal event in Belgium: “Metal at the Attic”!
A night of brutal death, dark black and mind-blowingly intricate metal music with Obscura, God Dethroned, Thulcandra and Fractal Universe!
Pictures of a most impressive night with Moonsorrow playing their popular ‘Verisäkeet’ album from start to finish! Check it out!
Dimmu Borgir en Amorphis co-headline a sold out 013 on their EU Tour.
Full Moon “Black and Death” Edition 2019 with Thurisaz, The Committee, Oceans Burning, Fractured Insanity, Coldborn, Ars Veneficium and Antzaat.
Pictures of a night with some of black metal greats, headed by the Norwegian legends of Mayhem!
Pictures of the show Tribulation played opening for Ghost at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki!
Pictures of the second night of a gathering of wolves at Steelchaos 2019!
