Black metal outfit Hulder announced their new album ‘Verbolgen’ to be out in August via 20 Buck Spin and Season of Mist! Catch them live in Europe this summer with both headline shows and festival appearances like Graspop and Hellfest!
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Flemish atmospheric black metal entity Drawn Into Descent shared an official live music video for the song ‘teloorgang’ from their third album ‘Onrust’, out with Immportal Frost Productions!
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Swedish black metal outfit Flykt shares a second new track ‘The Release and Descent’ from upcoming album ‘Sinister Strain’, out next month via Hammerheart Records!
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Finnish black metal out fit Morgal is set to release their new album ‘The Seventh Circle’ in June via Werewolf Records! We’re already looking forward to tomorrow’s show at Steelfest with the refreshed line-up, it’s going to kill!
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Hellenic black metal outfit Yoth Iria presents their new video for ‘Harut, Government, Fallen’ from their recently released album ‘Gone With The Devil’ out via Metal Blade Records!
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Greek extreme metal icons Rotting Christ announced a reissue of their 2000 album ‘Khronos’ will be released in July via their current label Season of Mist!
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Italian atmospheric folk/black metal outfit Duir reveal their new video single ‘Di nessuno’, the second to be revealed from their upcoming album ‘Catarsi’, set for release in June with AOP Records!
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Australian black metal force Faustian are releasing their new album ‘Parable Of The Sewer’ on Apocalyptic Witchcraft in July and recently unveiled the track ‘Broken Better’!
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Finnish black metal veterans Azaghal unveiled their latest single ‘Noitalasia’, the third unveiled from their upcoming album ‘Nekrohelios’, out by the end of this month via Immortal Frost Productions!
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Belgian metalpunks Shewolff shared their new track ‘Nail + Burn’, the third revealed from their upcoming debut mini-album ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’, out on May 22nd via Dying Victims Productions!
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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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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!
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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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Lists
Noble Demon is a new label that started in 2020 and is quickly on the rise to be one of the more prominent and big players in the scene!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.
2021 promises to be quite the year again for new music releases! With our team we decided on some of the releases we’re looking forward to the most!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
Miele Krieg delivers time after time a fine selection of black and death metal releases that are way off the beaten path…
An album of the year 2020 list heavily populated with Finnish bands and a mix of several genres, coming from our senior publisher.
Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!
Some good old familiars and a couple of big surprises made it to the albums of the year 2020 for Glenn!
Psychedelic, experimental sounds are not an unfamiliar sight in Davinci’s top list of 2020. Go on a discovery into weird realms…
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