News Posts

UK’s Blood Countess wages war on weakness and mediocrity with the black metal savagery that will come with upcoming album ‘Imperatrix Sanguinis’, out in April with Dominance of Darkness Records and revealed a first track with ‘Chains of Misdeed’!

Black metal outfit Doedsvangr unveiled the first strike from their upcoming album ‘Within The Flesh’ (out in April via Soulseller Records) with the track ‘Black Sun Dissolution’!

Swedish black/death metal outfit Speglas released the third and final single ‘Incessant Severance’ from their upcoming album ‘Endarkenment, Being & Death’, set for release next week’s Friday via Trust No One Recordings!

Last week, Mesopotamian metal masters Melechesh shared the new single ‘Raptors of Anzu’ from their upcoming EP ‘Sentinels of Shamash’, set for release with Reigning Phoenix Music in April!

Bizarrekult delivers another piece of raw post-black metal with new single ‘Avmakt’, the third and final track unveiled before the release of new album ‘Alt Som Finnes’, out on February 20 with Season of Mist!

Dutch black metal outfit Doodswens announce their new self-titled album set for release in April via Svart Records and shared the first single with ‘Driven By Death’!

Belgian atmospheric black doom outfit Splendidula releases new single and video ‘Kilte’ from upcoming album ‘Absentia’, set for release in April via Argonauta Records!

Finland’s symphonic black metal vanguard Vargrav unveiled the new track ‘Moonfrost Storms’, the second one to be revealed from upcoming fourth album ‘Dimension: Daemonium’, set for release in March with Werewolf Records!

Texas-based black metal alchemists Necrofier unleashes ‘Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path III’, the latest single from their upcoming album ‘Transcend Into Oblivion’, set for release at the end of this month with Metal Blade Records!

Polish extreme metal pioneers Behemoth have unleashed a stunning and fierce new music video for the track ‘Nomen Barbarvm’, from their latest album ‘The Shit Ov God’, in anticipation of touring starting in about a week!

Album Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.

Swedish melodic blackened death metal super group Night Crowned offers a compelling mixture of aggression and modern mixture of Nordic melodies on the third album ‘Tales’ out via Noble Demon Records today!

The sophomore offering “O Próbie Wiary I Jarzmie Zwątpienia” from the rising black metal outfit Mānbryne showcases excellent musicianship and artistic approach, out now, on Terratur Possessions and Malignant Voices.

International black metal outfit Taubrą offers an intriguing mixture of atmospheric and dark venomous black metal on its debut album “Therizo” out via Debemur Morti Productions tomorrow, October 13th!

Dutch black metal quintet Salacious Gods makes a surprising return with their comeback album “Oalevluuk”, a solid piece of Nordic-styled black metal out on October 6th via Hammerheart Records.