Earlier this month, Finnish black metal pioneers Azaghal announced their new album ‘Nekrohelios’ to be out with Immortal Frost Productions in May and unleashed a first single with ‘Elävän Kuoleman Tuhannet Kasvot’!
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Sweden’s Bewitched is back. This Friday, they are unleashing their comeback full-length album ‘Diabolical Death Mass’ with Osmose Productions, the first new release in 2 decades!
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Italian black metal outfit Infernal Angels unveiled the third single ‘Rex Mortis’ from their upcoming album ‘As the First Blood Fell…’, set for release next Friday on Immortal Frost Productions!
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British symphonic black metallers Hecate Enthroned unleash their new single and music video ‘Deathless In The Dryad Glade’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried’, set for release next month via M-Theory Audio!
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Finnish industrial black metallers AntiHuman Industries revealed the new track ‘Lucid Dream’, another taste of their upcoming debut album ‘Accelerated Death Impulse’, set for release at the end of this month via W.T.C. Productions! Also, catch them live at Steelfest in about a month!
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Old Moon delivers yet again top quality blackened melodic metal with the title track of their upcoming album ‘Home To Nowhere’! The album is set for release next month with M-Theory Audio. Catch them live in their neighborhoud or this June in Finland!
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Dutch extreme metal festival Nox Occultum has revealed the final lineup for the 2026 edition taking place in September, adding Samael and Beherit among others!
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Galibot unveil new single ‘Pénitent’ and video ahead of their upcoming album ‘Catabase’, out May 8 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. A brutal and melancholic descent into Northern France’s mining history.
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Finnish extreme metal band Saasta unleashed their final single ‘The Coffin’ in anticipation of upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be released next month!
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Belgian metalpunks Shewolff shared the new track ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’ title track and second to be unveiled from their upcoming mini-album, set for release next month via Dying Victims Productions!
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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!
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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…
Album Reviews
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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