Belgian black metal legends Enthroned ignite the tribunal once more with the latest track ‘Ashen Advocacy’ being unveiled of upcoming new album ‘Ashspawn’, set for release in December via Season of Mist!
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Greek black metal titans Yoth Iria recently signed to Metal Blade Records’ roster for the next chapter of their careers! Catch them live in Europe starting next week as support to Nailed To Obscurity!
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Alcatraz Festival just gave us an early christmas present by adding 32 more bands to the 2026 lineup, making it almost complete with another nice selection of metal icons, underground greats, up-and-coming bands and artists from its own Belgian soil!
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Norwegian black metal band Malum signs with Dark Essence Records for the release of their next album in the spring of 2026!
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Belgian doom collective Splendidula renewed their signing with Argonauta Records for the release of their upcoming new album. A first single featuring Aaron Stainthorpe will be out next month!
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Flemish black metal band Bloedmaan unleashed first single ‘Return to Castlevania’ from upcoming album ‘Vampyric War in Blood’, set for release with Immortal Frost Productions in December!
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Black metal icons Mayhem are releasing their seventh full-length ‘Liturgy of Death’ in February 2026 with Century Media Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Weep For Nothing’!
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Belgian black metal revelation Serpents Oath released their new single ‘Gateways to Tiamat’, extending the arc unveiled on their latest album ‘Revelation’, out with Odium Records!
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Blackend death thrash project Morbikon, led by members of Municipal Waste, Finntroll and more, unleashes the new single ‘Ghoul Infested Mausoleum’, a track from the upcoming album ‘Lost Within The Astral Crypts’, set for release in November via Tankcrimes!
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Oneiric black metal powerhouse Akhly are bringing the seeds of the band’s visionary sound back to life by the reissue of their 2009 debut album ‘Supplication’ via Debemur Morti Productions! Catch this exceptional band live at Steelfest next year!
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Photo Reports
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.
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
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.
The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!
Hexvessel turned, with the support of Unfyros, Kuudes Linja in Helsinki into a magically doomy place filled with smoke, and darkness.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!
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