Party.San Metal Open Air 2026 adds a massive new batch of bands, including Dark Funeral, Sacred Reich, Wolves in the Throne Room, Devourment, Misery Index, and many more.
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News Posts
Last night, Immortal Frost Productions unveiled third single and music video ‘Bloodlust Command Infinite’ by English black metal horde Sidious, from their upcoming album ‘Malefic Necropolis’, set for release at the end of this month!
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Necromantic black doom creators Worm revealed ‘Blackheart’, new single and part II of the short film series linked to upcoming album ‘Necropalace’, out in February 2026 via Century Media!
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Finnish gloomy post-hardcore outfit Svarta Havet are set to release their sophomore album ‘Månen ska lysa din väg’ for the European market via Svart Records in February 2026!
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True Helvetic black metal outfit Ernte is releasing its new album ‘Der schwarzen Flamme Vermächtnis’ via Purity Through Fire in February 2026 and shared a first track with ‘The Rise of the Older Ones’!
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Finland’s rising black metal force Qwälen to release their third album ‘Veri Vertaa Edelleen’ via Time To Kill Records in March 2026!
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Post-metal outfit Unverkalt are back with their third album ‘Héréditaire’ in February 2026 via Season of Mist and shared the single ‘Die Auslöschung’ as a first taste!
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Finnish metal festival institution Nummirock is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026 and announced the first 12 names with Satyricon, Moonsorrow, Rise of the Northstar, Omnium Gatherum (also celebrating their anniversary), Immortal Disfigurement, Uada, and more!
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For those who missed it, Finntroll and …And Oceans frontman Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns released his retrospective album ‘Remains’ at the end of last month! Covering 3 decades of his personal growth as a musican and vocalist, this is a great little piece of metal history to dig into!
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Belzebubs has recently launched another Makeship campaign, this time to get a mini plushie keychain version of Mr. Satan to tote around to proclaim your allegiance to the dark side! Don’t wait too long to go and support it, because it has less than a week left to meet its minimum goal!
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Album Reviews
The debut full-length album of Secrets, “Towards the Nightside”, captures the Norwegian black metal majesty in an unforgettable performance, the album comes highly recommended for fans of Emperor, Odium, and Limbonic Art. It is a fantastic album finely crafted by members of Gardsghastr, Chaos Moon and Ars Hmu, and offers a masterpiece of symphonic black metal, out now on Amor Fati Productions since January 23rd.
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Hulder on its second full length album “Verses In Oath” presents an enthralling mixture of pagan/folk black metal with many unforgettable epic moments, out via 20 Buck Spin today, February 9th.
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French black/death metal band Necrowretch returns with another blasphemous album. Their fifth album “Swords of Dajjal” is fast and hellish and arguably the band’s best offering to date, out since last Friday via Season of Mist.
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Norwegian black metal outfit Vemod sets new prospective for its second album “The Deepening”. The album is recommended for fans of post-metal and shoegaze and influenced by bands like Alcest, out now via Prophecy Productions since last Friday.
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The maniacal duo of the Indian black/death metal outfit Tetragrammacide presents one of the best offerings in the extreme metal genre this year. “Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an” spits venomous fire brought by the mastery of the percussive force. The album was released via Iron Bonehead Productions on November 3rd.
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The third album of the international black metal trio Slidhr “White Hart!” uniquely mixes the style of orthodox black metal with a dose of ambiance. The album was released on October 13th, via Debemur Morti Productions, and is to believed being one of the best black metal releases of the year if we can trust our reviewer.
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Just in time to be put under the Christmas tree comes Serpents Oath’s final panel to their Luciferian triptych. ‘Revelation’ is unrelenting black metal fury, full of fire and brimstone and a bright flame for the Belgian black metal scene. Out on December 20 via Odium Records and highly recommended for fans of modern sounding old school black metal in the vein of for instance Watain.
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Norwegian symphonic black metal outfit Troll returns with its latest effort ‘Trolldom’ and offers fans thirty-seven minutes of cold, necro atmosphere. The fifth album is out now and released via Polypus Records.
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Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
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Hellenic black metal masters Varathron are back with a majestic seventh album “The Crimson Temple”. An epic triumphant return that combines bombastic melodies and dark choirs and a landmark in the modern era of Hellenic black metal, out on December 1st via Agonia Records.
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