US black/death metal veterans Aurora Borealis unleashed first single ‘Millisecond Pulsar’ from upcoming album ‘Disillusioned By The Illusion’, set for release later this month with Non Serviam Records!
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News Posts
Nocturnal Departure has set the release for their new album ‘Spiritual Cessation’ to May via Hells Headbangers, preorders available right now!
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German medieval black metal outfit Grabunhold are releasing their second album ‘Frostheim’ in June with Iron Bonehead Productions and unveiled a first track with ‘Grambergs Fluch’!
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British black metallers Blood Countess shared new track ‘The Scavenger’s Daughter’, a second track unveiled from their upcoming album ‘Imperatrix Sanguinis’, set for release later this month via Dominance of Darkness Records!
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Icelandic black metal outfit Forsmán signed to new label Vesperian and shared a first single with ‘Andvana’!
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UK black metal legends Winterfylleth released their latest album ‘The Unyielding Season’ via Napalm Records and now unleashed a visualizer for the title track!
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Known for their mix of extreme metal and trap rap, Danish metallers Gradience dropped their latest single ‘Master To The Slave’ last week, a track from their upcoming full-length to be released later this year with Metal Blade Records!
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Finnish black metal outfit Mourniaty burns the crosses in their music video for ‘Kyynelten Virta’, a track from their debut album ‘Musta maa’, released last year with Inverse Records!
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Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum signs with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut album!
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Italian black metal horde Infernal Angels unleashed ‘As One with the Void’, featuring Adramelech from Inferno and a first single from the upcoming album ‘As the First Blood Fell…’, out in April with Immortal Frost Productions!
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Album Reviews
The Greek black metal legends Yoth Iria take a majestic and bombastic direction in their new opus “Blazing Inferno”. Jim Mutilator offers something compelling to fans by capturing the epic majesty of classic Hellenic black metal, released via Edged Circle Productions!
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Omegaeternum’s debut full length album “1248” binds epic and mystical atmosphere by unfolding eerie melodies, the Frenchmen have crafted a unique black metal album. Out since November 25th via Ván Records.
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Mörk Gryning’s newest album “Fasornas Tid” offers unrelenting aggression and rawness packed with the 90s black metal quality. Out via Season of Mist tomorrow, December 13th.
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The uniqueness and quality crowns Djevel’s new album “Natt Til Ende” as one of the best black metal albums of the year, the chant passages are saturated in the grimness of 90s black metal as each riff and melody offers many epic moments. Out via Avantgarde Music.
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Finland’s symphonic/melodic black metal outfit Pestilent Hex crafts the traditional sound of Scandinavian black metal on the second full length album “Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow”, out via Debemur Morti Productions since last week’s Friday.
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Paysage d’Hiver’s third studio album “Die Berge” is nothing short of brilliant and conveys the imaginative art of Nordic black metal. Out via Kunsthall Produktionen since November 8th.
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Gaerea unveils its composition and musical faculties with remarkable quality on their fourth studio album “Coma” and show an interesting new approach from these musicians, shifting somewhat towards a more generally extreme metal with an atmospheric post-black vibe, turning this into their best effort yet. Out via Season of Mist since October 25th.
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Polish black metal pioneers Arkona return with a supreme and majestic album. ‘Stella Pandora’ is one of the best releases in the genre this year. Out on Debemur Morti Productions.
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After thirty years Adorior slithers out from the depths of hell to convey its satanic wicked album ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ through the medium of raw fucking metal. Out via Dark Descent Records and comes highly recommended for fans of Slayer, Absu and Angelcorpse!
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1349’s new studio album ‘The Wolf & The King’ is impressive and engaging, full of dynamics and fiery tremolo riffage, delivering unrelenting aggression. This is a great return of one of Norway’s prominent black metal acts and out via Season of Mist.
Catch them on tour right now with Kampfar and Afsky, with a stop at Helsinki’s Ääniwalli tomorrow!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the artists on the Radio City and OPEN AIR II stage of the first day of Tuska 2024, with I Am The Night, Infected Rain, Suburban Tribe, GHØSTKID and Zeal & Ardor!
Back in March, we found the popular Danish black metal outfit Afsky teaming up with the just as popular Finns of Havukruunu for a co-headline tour in Finland with the support of Qwälen, bringing one of the most progressively welcoming black metal shows to On The Rocks in Helsinki!
The outdoor stage on the 3rd day of Steelfest XII was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Blasphemy, Dødheimsgard, Acherontas, Barathrum and Sarkrista!
Steelfest XII brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with headliner Mysticum, the current iteration of Horna with vocalist Spellgoth, Denial of God, White Death, Diocletian and Ifernach on the first day of the 3-day fest
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XII was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Kroda, Infernal War, Ved Buens Ende, Délétère, and Corpsessed!
The second day of Steelfest XI delivered another serving of proper dark underground and extreme metal on the indoors stage with performances from Horna with vocalist Corvus, Misþyrming, Krzysztof Drabikowski’s БАТЮШКА, Strid, and Inferno!
The first day of Steelfest XII also brought a series of explosive and high energy performances to the outdoor stage with Unleashed, Aeternus, Hellbutcher, Craft, and Deathchain!
Steelfest XII brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with headliner Gorgoroth, the first iteration of Horna with vocalist Nazgul, Antimateria, Commander Agares, Aegrus and Black Altar on the first day of the 3-day fest!
An alternative way to celebrate Easter weekend with Rytmihäiriö and Finntroll at their stop at Tavastia in Helsinki on the “Jesus är död, nu ska vi dricka” tour!
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.
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