US black metallers Abigail Williams announced their European tour to take place in early summer with Shagor joining for the Europe mainland dates!
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News Posts
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!
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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’!
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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!
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Norwegian black metallers A.H.P. revealed the track ‘Alltid Imot Deg’ from their latest album of the same name, out now with Purity Through Fire!
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Norwegian black metallers Ildfar revealed the new track ‘Natteskygger’, from their upcoming album ‘Der ligger et land’, set to be out next week via Purity Through Fire!
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Italian black metal outfit Infernal Angels unleashed ‘Apotheosis – Manifest ov Black Light’, featuring Omega from Darvaza and the second single of their upcoming album ‘As the First Blood Fell…’, out later this month via Immortal Frost Productions!
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Ancient blackened death metallers Archaic Oath revealed their latest new track ‘Wrath of the Witches’ from their upcoming debut album ‘Determined to Death and Beyond’!
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Maltese black metal entity SAĦĦAR signed to Time To Kill Records for the next chapter in its path. Details about an upcoming new album to be revealed soon!
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Medieval black metallers Riverflame (with members of Hail Spirit Noir, Ponte Del Diavolo and OWLS) shared the new track ‘Where Dragons Once Ruled’, a second track revealed from their highly anticipated debut album ‘Lunar Crusades’, out later this month with code666!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of Samael, Before The Dawn and Bury Tomorrow on the second outside stage at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of Bloodred Hourglass, I Am Morbid, Leprous and Emperor performing on one of the outdoor stages at Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we had a very black metal heavy one with Gaerea, Taake and Belphegor, old school punk with The Exploited, gloomy industrial from Godflesh and one of Finland’s favorite bands Amorphis!
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
Polish metal icons BEHEMOTH! are roaming through Europe with their ‘Deathless Summer Tour 2023’ and struck down at Substage in Karlsruhe, Germany with the support of Hypocrisy and SpiritWorld. A gorgeous night of some of the best metal the world has to offer right now, and extreme temperatures despite no pyro being used.
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XI was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Tsatthoggua, Sex Messiah, Grenadier, Witchtrap, Kalmankantaja and Behexen!
The second day of Steelfest XI delivered another serving of proper dark underground and extreme metal on the indoors stage with performances from Gravespawn, Ymir, Infernal, Totalselfhatred, Ride For Revenge, Gehenna and Carpathian Forest!
The kings of weed metal Bongzilla brought the smoke with them to a packed house at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki, Finland and delivered their usual absolutely crushing wall of sound to a highly anticipating crowd. Support came from the Finnish black metal outfit Frigid Winter.
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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