Portuguese outfit Ponte Del Diavolo dance with the devil on ‘Covenant’, another spellbinding single and video from their upcoming self-titled album set for release next month via Season of Mist!
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Renowned French black metal entity Merrimack continues to unravel the enigmatic tapestry of their upcoming album ‘Of Grace and Gravity’ (out in March via Season of Mist) with the release of their second single ‘Dead and Distant Clamors’!
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Australian dark folk/blackgaze act Suldusk announces upcoming new album ‘Anthesis’, set for release via Napalm Records in March, and share the title track now with an accompanying video! Fans of Myrkur, Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe, don’t sit on this one!
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Dutch black metal institution Funeral Winds revealed ‘Birthed by Pure Malevolence’, the first track from the upcoming album ‘333’, set for release on January 26th via Osmose Productions!
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Dutch/Belgian black-doom project Stuporous shared the new track ‘Never Let Me Go’, another one revealed from their highly anticipated debut album ‘Asylum’s Lament’, set for release on January 25th via Void Wanderer Productions and War Productions!
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Finnish black metallers Hollow Woods shared the new track ‘Night Burns Through’ from their upcoming album ‘Like Twisted Bones of Fallen Giants’, set for release in February via Signal Rex!
Black metal/crust punk outfit Dödsrit set the release date for new album ‘Nocturnal Will’ on March 22nd via Wolves of Hades and reveal first track ‘Celestial Will’!
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A new voice in the realm of black metal has arisen: Jordsjuk! The Norwegian trio with seasoned veterans from esteemed bands like Djevel, Nordjevel, Urgehal and Koldbrann, unleashed their debut single ‘Siste Skanse’ from the upcoming EP ‘Råtner på Rot’, to be released via Indie Recordings!
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In anticipation of the release via Mighty Music later this month, the Danes of Manticora unleashed a video for the title track of their upcoming album ‘Mycelium’!
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Italian black metal unit Stormcrow share the new single ‘Dark Existence’ from their upcoming album ‘Path to Ascension’, set for release sometime in 2024 via Time To Kill Records!
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Album Reviews
“Devil, Stone & Man” is a worthy album in the band’s discography as on the whole the eight tracks are overwhelmingly heavy outlined by the performance of these German lads.
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I Am The Night has mastered its craft on the first full-length album “While The Gods Are Sleeping” what we have here is a supreme embodiment of the Swedish and Norwegian trademarks.
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“The Long Defeat” opens a new chapter in Deathspell Omega’s creative oeuvres that seems to conjoin the modern aesthetics with the unorthodox style of avant-garde black metal.
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Italy’s oldest black metal outfit Frostmoon Eclipse released a lovely little gem that serves as a perfect introduction to their work.
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On “Dread Reaver” Abbath Doom Occulta finds himself at the top of his game with the ultimate dexterity in channeling different styles of metal genres. The third outing is fierce black metal record that will touch you to the core.
Ars Hmu’s debut full length “Empire of Impurity” is as grim and cold as the Norwegian and Swedish black metal counterparts that falls between the atmospheric and the symphonic form of black metal.
Dark Funeral’s newest opus “We Are the Apokalypse” is undeniably one of the best albums in the band’s discography as it ultimately forges new methods of fusing catchy elements and rhetoric harmonies.
“Striving Towards Oblivion” is inexplicably unique excelling in vibrancy, Vorga managed to express its fluent ideas.
Darvaza on the first full-length album rendered six majestic tracks that counter the epic scale of its occult symphony, this comes with high recommendations for fans of Mayhem, Mare and, Behexen.
Ceremonial Castings eleventh album “Our Journey Through Forever” is an introspective record that highlight’s the band’s past works.
Lists
2017 has once again been an excellent year for black metal music. I’ve presented my top albums along with a list of notable releases in the genre!
A full year of incredible releases that we are trying to cram into a list of “albums of the year”, here we go again…
After endless debating the list is done with one clear winner!
