Extreme metal icons Samael are back with their new single and video ‘Hidden Empire’, the second track featured on their upcoming limited 12″ maxi single vinyl, set for release in April via Napalm Records!
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News Posts
Mesopotamian metal pioneers Melechesh have unveiled their new single ‘In Shadows, In Light’, another track from their upcoming EP ‘Sentinels Of Shamash’, out next month via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Dutch black metal outfit released second single ‘The Black Flame’ with a new music video, dragging the viewer deeper into darkness with a visual ritual. Another track from their upcoming self-titled album set for release next month via Svart Records!
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Scottish blackened thrash bastards Hellripper shared the next new song ‘Mortercheyn’ from the upcoming album ‘Coronach’, out in a couple of weeks via Century Media Records!
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Greek black metallers Yoth Iria are releasing their new album ‘Gone With The Devil’ in May on Metal Blade Records and recently shared a first single with ‘The Blind Eye Of Antichrist’!
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Estonian black metal outfit Kõdu are releasing their new album ‘Kirjad Sõgedate Külast’ in April with Antiq Records and unveiled the title track as a first teaser!
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Belgian underground trio Shewolff shared the new track ‘Guillotines’ from upcoming debut mini-album ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’ set for release in May with Dying Victims Productions!
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Extreme metal legends Nunslaughter announced their new album ‘Satanic Chaos Legions’ to be out with BLKIIBLK in June and shared the title track as a first single with a music video!
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Legendary metal band Venom just announced their new album ‘Into Oblivion’ to be out in May with Noise Records/BMG and unvelied a first single with ‘Lay Down Your Soul’!
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Hellsinki Metal Festival has completed its 2026 line-up with the addition of Paradise Lost, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Unleashed, Mawiza, Sanguisugabogg, Omnium Gatherum, Kalmah, Assemble the Chariots, Cyan Kicks, Tungsten, Sepulchral Curse, Orly, Horizon Ignited, Misþyrming, and VREID!
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Photo Reports
Seeing Gaerea live is an incredible and intense experience, and they blew us away at their sold out show at On The Rocks with support from the locals Venenum Dei! A production by Nem Agency and Loose Mind Productions.
Rising stars in the melodeath realms, Aephanemer is touring, and we visited them on their stop at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France. Warm up act were black folk metallists Sorcières.
On a wintry and snowy night in Helsinki, the Scottish atmospheric black outfit Saor blew us away with an amazing show at Tiivistämö with special guests …and Oceans and openers Marrasmieli!
Grilling season was figuratively and quite literally opened when The European Siege tour starring Unto Others, Carcass, Behemoth and Arch Enemy hit Jäähalli in Helsinki with their first sold out show of the tour.
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Steelchaos is always a fantastic event to get to take pictures at, especially with on day 1 shows from Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum!
Gaahls Wyrd is going from city to city in Europe, spreading their dark tunes with the support of their label mates Gaerea and at the stop at the Backstage in Munich Winterfylleth!
On a Sunday autumn evening in Finland we saw total Polish death metal takeover of On The Rocks Helsinki with Vader, Hate and Thy Disease at on of the stops on the “Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022”! For a Sunday, there was quite the massacre unleashed in the pit!
Album Reviews
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.
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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!
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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.
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Washington-based atmospheric black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room treat the fans with yet another grim and ambient piece of black metal on the newest EP “Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge” out now via Relapse Records on September 29th.
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Finnish melodic black metal stalwarts Moonlight Sorcery paint shimmering landscapes of winter on their first studio album “Horned Lord of The Thorned Castle” which amalgamate the fantasy style of Scandinavian melodies with a sense of fantasy. Out now via Avantgarde Music!
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Bathe yourself in the blood of virgins with Countess Erszebeth’s self-titled and self-released new mini album. A doomy, magick-inducing piece of black metal, released earlier this summer.
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The international black/doom metal collective The Rite offers a chilling atmosphere of horror on their sophomore album, “The Astral Gloom. For those who like their music dark and mysterious, look no further. Released via Iron Bonehead Productions.
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Marduk’s fifteenth studio album “Memento Mori” perfectly fits with the raw aesthetics of the band. In terms of quality and songwriting the ten tracks offer sinister and furious black metal, this is one of the band’s best albums and is set for release this Friday via Century Media Records!
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On “Nahab”, the second part of the ‘Disharmonium’ series, the French avant-garde black metal Blut Aus Nord offers another frightening album that resonate to the horror mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Released via Debemur Morti Productions.
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With ‘Prosaic’, Liam Neigbors’ (aka A.L.N.) brainchild Mizmor takes a less conceptual, down to earth approach to its unique mixture of depressive black metal and funeral doom, making each song stand on its own two feet in this bleak slice of life. Out via Profound Lore Records on this Friday, July 21.
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