Australian blackened heavy metal collective Black Lava announced their upcoming new album ‘The Savage Winds to Wisdom’ set to be released in July and unleashed a first taste of the darkness to come with the single ‘Ironclad Sarcophagus’!
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Blistering UK blackened death metal quintet Turin dropped relentless new video ‘Loss’ featuring Travis Worland from Enterprise Earth, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing’ to be released in July via MNRK Heavy!
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Toronto blackened technical death metal collective Apogean shares their new video single ‘Bluelight Sonata’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Cyberstrictive’, set for release next month via The Artisan Era!
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Louisville, Kentucky blackened melodic death metal band Volcandra announced their new album ‘The Way of Ancients’ to be released next month via Prosthetic Records and shared the lead single ‘Fouled Sanctity’!
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Legends of the underworld VLTIMAS bring a righteous scorn on ‘Scorcher’, another single from their upcoming sophomore album ‘EPIC*, set for release in March via Season of Mist!
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Blackened death metal outfit Noctem unleashes a video for ‘The Pale Moon Rite’ in observance of the winter solstice, a track from their latest release ‘Credo Certe Ne Cras’ released in 2022 via MNRK Heavy!
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The Wothrosch Collective and Jane Fotour announced the photo exhibition ‘Odium Magno’ to be hosted in Athens, showcasing their latest release ‘Odium’ through the medium of photography!
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Polish blackened death outfit Lilla Veneda presented the second song ‘Biomechanic Algorithm’ from their upcoming album ‘Primordial Movements’, set for release in February 2024!
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Swedish blackened death metal masters Necrophobic shared the single/video ‘Stormcrow’, a first track from their upcoming album ‘In the Twilight Grey’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!
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Italian blackened death trio Voltumna to release EP ‘For Death Is Fate’ early next year, and unveiled an official video for the first single ‘Black Science’.
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Album Reviews
Vltimas’ second full length album “Epic” deliver plenty of head-banging moments for fans of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, and Cryptopsy. This is a coherent record that showcases the chemistry between these veterans and takes what they already did expertly on their debut to a whole new level. Out since today via Season of Mist!
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Vitriol’s second full length album “Suffer & Become” is ultimately bombastic and brutal, the Oregon based quartet has strengthened its ante with weaponized barbaric instrumentation. The album comes highly recommended for fans of Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage and Anaal Nathrakh, out now via Century Media Records since last Friday, January 26th.
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After embedding their sound in the realms of blackened death/doom, U.K.’s quartet Strigoi returns with a short EP “Bathed in A Black Sun”, presenting fans with exclusive and unreleased tracks out via Season of Mist.
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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 fourth dreadful opus “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals” from North Rhine-Westphalia blackened death outfit Sulphur Aeon conveys an otherworldly sense of might to the ancient creatures that lurk beneath the seas out now via Ván Records on October 13th.
Hail Cthulhu!!!
Hail Sulphur Aeon!!!!
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Anarkhon’s new release “Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun” is a dark and gripping album that sounds really menacing and maintains plenty of slow brooding moments for the fifty-four minute length. The album comes highly recommended for fans of Lovecraftian style of blackened death metal and was released via Debemur Morti Productions.
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‘Anthronomicon’ sees Ulthar moving in its own unique territory offering a complex and intricate work that will please fans of Lovecraftian death metal. The trio has achieved their best level of songwriting without sacrificing the roots of old school death and black metal. Out on February 17 via 20 Buck Spin.
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Austria’s blackened death metal act Belphegor conjures us a demonic soundtrack to Walpurgis on its newest album ‘The Devils’ which is the band’s strongest release to date. The eight tracks offer atmospheric and epic qualities without sacrificing any of their trademark blackened aggression. Out on Nuclear Blast.
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Desolate Shrine shows a new paradigm in the songwriting that establish a rawer and fierce hellish sound on the fifth opus “Fires Of The Dying World”.
Nocturnal Graves fourth album “An Outlaw’s Stand” is full of raptures and grits where the Aussies deliver the outright rampage of blackened thrash/death metal.
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Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
