Norwegian black metal icons 1349 unleashed ‘Inferior Pathways’ last week, the latest onslaught from their upcoming album ‘The Wolf and The King’, set for release in a couple of weeks on Season of Mist!
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Finnish folkloric black metallers The Mist From the Mountains revealed the new track ‘Sáiva’, the second one brought into the world from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Portal – The Gathering of Storms’, set for release on October 11th via Primitive Reaction!
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Варфоломей’s Batushka announces that with the change of the year, so will a new version of the band will come to life and this under a new name! From 2025, the band will be known as Patriarkh, serving their pilgrims with new music free from litigation and the negativity that came with their former name.
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Last week, German black metallers Firtan revealed the third single ‘Contra Vermes’, in anticipation of next week’s release of their highly anticipated 4th album ‘Ethos’ via AOP Records!
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Iconic depressive black metal band Psychonaut 4 shared a lyric video for their song ‘Vai Me’, a track from their upcoming 5th full-length album ‘…Of Mourning’, set for release in October via Immortal Frost Productions!
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Inferno Metal Festival confirmed Satyricon, Rotting Christ, Attan, Uma and Dizmal for next year’s edition! Get your tickets and book your hotel asap!
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The 13th edition of Steelfest is happening in a bit more than 8 months and over the weekend they announced 30 confirmed names for 2025, with of course a nice selection of the top of the Finnish underground scene and plenty of pretty impressive names again, including some exclusive shows of bands like Absu, Osculum Infame, The True Werwolf, Imprecation, Hellwind & Vritrahn and more! Time to get those tickets, we’d say!
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Gaerea is making their presence felt on the world of extreme metal with their latest captivating single and video ‘Unknown’, another track from their highly anticipated album ‘Coma’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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After earlier this year celebrating 30 years of Horna at Steelfest with 3 separate shows each spanning another era of the legendary Finnish black metal outfit, they are now also set to release their highly anticipated 11th album ‘Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle’ in a couple of weeks via W.T.C. Productions!
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Finnish black metal icons Barathrum have set the release date for their 10th full-length ‘Überkill’ on October 11 via Hammer of Hate, and unleashed the title track as a teaser!
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Just like Vivaldi the mysterious British musician, known only as Nhor has made his own ode to the four seasons called Wildflowers where the black metal artist paints a melancholic picture of nature’s cycle with a masterful yet minimalistic use of the piano.
Craft are capable of producing a diversified album of quality songs and varied contents which make it very amusing with every listen.
Demonaz has crafted an intellectual material that animates the band as one of the leading acts in the black metal genre.
If Marduk’s “Frontschwein” generally possessed the fierce and brutal elements, then “Viktoria” has managed to proceed as a natural continuation to its prior.
Khemmis’s third album “Desolation” shapes traditional harmony to modern metal
Hekatomb is without doubt a vicious inferno of the wicked and Funeral Mist has inevitably set the bar high on the new studio album.
Reverorum Ib Malacht, although a catholic band, delivers one of the most haunting, insane and absolutely mind-bending records black metal has seen this year, pushing the limits of the genre even further.
Uada perfects their identity by sounding raw, aggressive and melodic at the same time. This specific style which has transformed them into a respectable and renown black metal band to rise from the USA.
On the 8th of June Consouling Sounds is releasing a Split EP featuring both Soul Grip and VVOVNDS!
Wayfarer’s latest piece, ‘World’s Blood’ invokes images of the old Frontier tales from the Rocky Mountains through razor sharp USBM and dark Americana. Check out their third album and debut for Profound Lore and find yourself become a trapper exploring the wilds of the West.
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