News Posts

Ukrainian progressive extreme metal ensemble Waidelotte, featuring members of White Ward and Soen, unveiled with ‘The Era Of Stagnant Gods’ the first track from upcoming debut album ‘Celestial Shrine’, to be released this year via Debemur Morti Productions!

Tuska completed their 2024 line-up with the addition of Kerry King and 6 domestic acts with Kaunis Kuolematon, The Abbey, NightStop, Suotana, Malformed and Shereign. The Tuska KVLT bands still need to be announced, though! Get your tickets now!

Today, Hellsinki Metal Festival confirmed the last 8 names for the 2024 line-up with Meshuggah, Abbath (performs Immortal), Soen, Emmure, Gutalax, Crownshift, Wolfheart, and Barathrum! Get your tickets as soon as you can!

Finnish black metal collective Night Shall Drape Us under the direction of LRH and with vocals by Spellgoth, Infection and Wraath, unveiled their debut album ‘Lunatic Choir’ to be released in April via Season Of Mist and shared a first single with ‘Under the Dead Sky’!

The new and very exciting voice in black metal Jordsjuk, featuring seasoned veterans from esteemed bands like Djevel, Nordjevel, Urgehal and Koldbrann, unleashed their new single ‘Viva la Apocalypse’, a relentless assault on hope’s horizon! Released via Indie Recordings!

Polish extreme metal collective Shadohm shared their new video single ‘Blurred’, a track from their upcoming debut ‘Through Darkness Towards Enlightenment’, set for release via Selfmadegod Records in March!

Notorious and prolific Cleveland cult Midnight will unleash its sixth full-length ‘Hellish Expectations’ via Metal Blade Records in March and share the first single ‘F.O.A.L.’ (AKA ‘Fuck Off And Live’)!

Norwegian black metal/punk legends Haust unveiled ‘Left To Die’, another track from the upcoming album ‘Negative Music’, set to be released in April via Fysisk Format!

A new Satanic Panic is on its way with Finnish black metal brotherhood Satanic North announcing their self-titled debut album to be unleashed upon the world in April via Reaper Entertainment! A first single with ‘War’ is coming in a couple of weeks!

Album Reviews

International black metal outfit Taubrą offers an intriguing mixture of atmospheric and dark venomous black metal on its debut album “Therizo” out via Debemur Morti Productions tomorrow, October 13th!

Dutch black metal quintet Salacious Gods makes a surprising return with their comeback album “Oalevluuk”, a solid piece of Nordic-styled black metal out on October 6th via Hammerheart Records.

Washington-based atmospheric black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room treat the fans with yet another grim and ambient piece of black metal on the newest EP “Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge” out now via Relapse Records on September 29th.

Finnish melodic black metal stalwarts Moonlight Sorcery paint shimmering landscapes of winter on their first studio album “Horned Lord of The Thorned Castle” which amalgamate the fantasy style of Scandinavian melodies with a sense of fantasy. Out now via Avantgarde Music!

Bathe yourself in the blood of virgins with Countess Erszebeth’s self-titled and self-released new mini album. A doomy, magick-inducing piece of black metal, released earlier this summer.

The international black/doom metal collective The Rite offers a chilling atmosphere of horror on their sophomore album, “The Astral Gloom. For those who like their music dark and mysterious, look no further. Released via Iron Bonehead Productions.

Marduk’s fifteenth studio album “Memento Mori” perfectly fits with the raw aesthetics of the band. In terms of quality and songwriting the ten tracks offer sinister and furious black metal, this is one of the band’s best albums and is set for release this Friday via Century Media Records!

On “Nahab”, the second part of the ‘Disharmonium’ series, the French avant-garde black metal Blut Aus Nord offers another frightening album that resonate to the horror mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Released via Debemur Morti Productions.

With ‘Prosaic’, Liam Neigbors’ (aka A.L.N.) brainchild Mizmor takes a less conceptual, down to earth approach to its unique mixture of depressive black metal and funeral doom, making each song stand on its own two feet in this bleak slice of life. Out via Profound Lore Records on this Friday, July 21.

The Finnish veterans …And Oceans have delivered one of their best works to date ‘As in Gardens, So in Tombs’ which stands as their most accomplished album since their masterwork debut ‘The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts’. This is simply a feast for fans of symphonic and melodic black metal. Out via Season of Mist.