Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum are getting ready to unleash their debut album ‘Filth Majesty’ next month with Time To Kill Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Nightside Necromancy’!
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News Posts
Finnish black metal icons Azaghal shared second single ‘Saatana, Olen Miekkasi’ and first music video of their upcoming album ‘Nekrohelios’, set for release at the end of the month with Immortal Frost Productions!
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Belgian extreme music apparition Emptiness announced its new album ‘Nowhere Speaks’ to be out in July via Season of Mist!
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Czech black metal institution Inferno announced their new album ‘The Anthropic Sophisms’ to be our in July with Debemur Morti Productions and shared the one and only single ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus (The Infinity Ravages All)’!
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Portland’s Dry Wedding signed with Vesperian and released their first new song ‘Arrowhead’!
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Polish black metal outfit Piołun returns with their second full-length ‘Exolvuntur’ in May via Malignant Voices and unleashed a first track with ‘Manifest Kresu’.
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Swedish black metal outfit Flykt unveiled the details of their upcoming album ‘Sinister Strain’, out in June via Hammerheart Records and unleashed the new track ‘An Uncarved Block’!
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Ukraine’s melodic black metal band Deus Sabaoth drops new single ‘Last Gleam’, taken from their upcoming album ‘Distortion of Lies’, set for release in May via Paragon Records!
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Icelandic Sátan Festival has announced the final line-up for their 2026 edition with not only Icelandic rock legends Sólstafir at the top of the bill, but also acts like The Haunted, Hamferð, Múr, Aborted and many more!
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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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Album Reviews
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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The Finnish veterans …And Oceans have delivered one of their best works to date ‘As in Gardens, So in Tombs’ which stands as their most accomplished album since their masterwork debut ‘The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts’. This is simply a feast for fans of symphonic and melodic black metal. Out via Season of Mist.
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Mastermind V-Khaoz of Vargrav continues to carve his sonic art in the footsteps of the Norwegian masters Emperor, the new EP output “Encircle the Spectral Dimension” emphasizes the majestic art of symphonic black metal. Out via Werewolf Records.
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Norwegian black metal elite Tsjuder have created a masterpiece on its sixth album “Helvegr”. The duo Nag and Draugluin take a furious classic direction into the frost-bitten style of bands like Marduk, Mayhem and Immortal. Out via Season of Mist!
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Enevelde presents its classic, authentic sound rooted in the second wave of black metal. The second album “En Gildere Død” is expertly crafted by the multi-instrumentalist B. Kråbøl, released via Terratur Possessions.
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Lists
Don’t you just hate when that happens? 10 top albums I missed last year that I think you should still check out…
If you’re looking for some of the best underground black metal albums of the year 2019, you’re at the right address here!
Mazen lists up his favorite releases of 2019 in the black, death and heavy metal scene, check out what he thinks are interesting releases to check out!
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
The same struggle that comes back every single year: making a selection of the best albums of the year from all the quality releases it has brought forth, so here is the 2018 edition!
2018 was a big year for metal and especially for extreme metal, check out Maxen’s list of the best what 2018 had to bring in his opinion!
A list consisting of the best honest, true and ball kicking releases of 2018!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
A list of albums of the year 2018 that mostly seems to revolve around energy and emotions, check it out!
A list with a lot of black metal seeping in, but with a rather surprising number 1 spot!
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