Finnish industrial black metallers AntiHuman Industries revealed the new track ‘Lucid Dream’, another taste of their upcoming debut album ‘Accelerated Death Impulse’, set for release at the end of this month via W.T.C. Productions! Also, catch them live at Steelfest in about a month!
Old Moon delivers yet again top quality blackened melodic metal with the title track of their upcoming album ‘Home To Nowhere’! The album is set for release next month with M-Theory Audio. Catch them live in their neighborhoud or this June in Finland!
Dutch extreme metal festival Nox Occultum has revealed the final lineup for the 2026 edition taking place in September, adding Samael and Beherit among others!
Galibot unveil new single ‘Pénitent’ and video ahead of their upcoming album ‘Catabase’, out May 8 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. A brutal and melancholic descent into Northern France’s mining history.
Finnish extreme metal band Saasta unleashed their final single ‘The Coffin’ in anticipation of upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be released next month!
Belgian metalpunks Shewolff shared the new track ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’ title track and second to be unveiled from their upcoming mini-album, set for release next month via Dying Victims Productions!
US black metallers Abigail Williams announced their European tour to take place in early summer with Shagor joining for the Europe mainland dates!
Spain’s Aversio Humanitatis are sharing the song and video ‘Blackened Mold Marrow’, a track from their upcoming album ‘To Become the Endless Static’ set for release at the end of this month with Debemur Morti Productions!
Finnish industrialized black metal collective AntiHuman Industries, featuring some big names of the extreme metal scene, is releasing its debut album ‘Accelerated Death Impulse’ with W.T.C. Productions at the end of this month and unveiled a first track with ‘Loop of Cosmic Horror’!
Atmospheric black metal act Sotabosc unveiled their haunting new single ‘Freyja’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘El Batec dels Maquis’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Dunk!Records!
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.
In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!
The El Corazon venue in the center of Seattle came alive with a burst of energy when Greek extreme metal legends Rotting Christ took over the stage there a couple of weeks ago!
Cradle of Filth came by for a couple of sold out shows in Finland on their massive Europe tour with Wednesday 13 and Sick N’ Beautiful and we caught this spectacle at Tampere’s Pakkahuone a couple of weeks back!
The year got off with a good start at our very own Asgaard venue with killer performances by Gravekvlt, Bokkerijders and Traquenard! A night in collaboration with Return Bookings!
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!
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.
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!
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!
The new and highly anticipated eleventh album “Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle” from the Finnish black metal icons Horna is a pure definition of evil. One of this year’s top black metal releases, out via World Terror Committee tomorrow, September 13th!
In a year full of prominent black metal releases ‘Reaperdawn’ is one of the contenders for the best of 2024, this is yet another triumphant return from guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt who gives us a sense of his creative genius. Out on Century Media Records.
Árstíðir Lífsins on its sixth full length album “Aldrlok” recounts the timeless tales of old Norse history and turbulent times of change in Iceland. The nine cuts combine modern and classic black metal into an epic black metal album that stands unique in the band’s musical works, out via Ván Records.
Kvaen’s third studio album ‘The Formless Fires’ captures the early years of Swedish melodic black metal. The album is highly recommended for fans of Dissection, The Moaning and A Canorous Quintet. Out on Metal Blade Records.
Akhlys’ fourth studio album ‘House of the Black Geminus’ is an incredible manifestation brought from the dark mind of Naas Alcameth. The six new cuts project a quasi-symphonic and sinister form of black metal with ferocity and atmosphere. Out on Debemur Morti.
The ninth studio album “Heavenly Down” from the Hungarian black metal masters Sear Bliss brings back memories of the past albums in a most breathless passionate spirit; capturing the hallmark of the band. Out via Hammerheart Records, it is a must for fans of symphonic and atmospheric black metal, and highly recommended to anyone who likes Summoning, Forest Silence, and Negură Bunget.
Civerous packs the sophomore “Maze Envy” with modulation of black/death metal, there are some nuances of blackened death metal that serve a dreary atmosphere. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week, March 22nd.
