News Posts

Extreme metal supergroup VLTIMAS are back with another single, proving they bow to now one and remain undefeated with ‘Invictus’, another track from the upcoming album ‘EPIC’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Season of Mist!

Gothic doom metal outfit Tomorrow’s Rain announced their upcoming new album ‘Ovdan’ to be released in April via AOP Records, featuring a wide array of impressive guests from bands like Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Sisters of Mercy, Dark Funeral and Sol Invictus! And last week, they shared the first single and video ‘Sunrise’!

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!

VLTIMAS flex their legendary might on their upcoming and much anticipated new album ‘EPIC’, set for release in March 2024 via Season of Mist, and unveiled a first single/video with ‘Miserere’!

Hellsinki Metal Festival, the most exciting new player in the Finnish summer festival season this year, is throwing down the gauntlet with a really exciting first batch of announcements for next year’s edition!

Still about 10 months to go, Alcatraz has announced the first 50 confirmed acts for the 2024 edition of one of Belgium’s greatest rock and metal fests!

Blackened horror metal band Veile, featuring members of bands like Mayhem and God Dethroned, unveiled their new single ‘The Abyss’ with a horrifying video!

Legendary Norwegian black metal outfit Mayhem announced a brand new EP including additional material from the ‘Daemon’ session and a homage to bands that inspired them!

An early Christmas gift from Brutal Assault with the 4th load of names for the 2020 edition!

The lineup announcement for the 15th anniversary edition of Hellfest (2020)! Are you excited yet? We sure are! Check which bands have been announced!

Festival Reports

On the first day of Hard Rock fest Avelgem we could witness some of the most talented Black Metal artists of our time perform live in the little town of Avelgem.

Tuska 2017 promised to be a huge party for metal and rock lovers. With their 20th anniversary they geared up to make it one hell of a celebration…

Our beloved Winter mass!

Album Reviews

‘Atavistic Black Disorder/Kommando’ is essential for the die hard fans of Mayhem.

Exhumation’s “Eleventh Formulae” is raw and evil for fans of Repugnant and Obliteration this is a morbid fascination of primitive death metal.

Mayhem on the latest achievement grasps a unique and pedagogical approach to black metal.

One of the major contemporary bands to rise from Scandinavia in 1997 was the Norwegian black metal band 1349. During the peak of the second wave of black metal the band became a force to be reckoned with among many other bands such as Satyricon, Gorgoroth , Immortal, etc.  The Norwegian outfit whose music was […]

DSO are masters of cacophony techniques, so intensely ferocious but highly leveled at technical eligibility. ​They’re milestones a head of other bands,

The absolute standard of channeling the primitive style of black metal and the aggressiveness of thrash metal on Saqra’s Cult new album it’s not very common with the bands from this genre nowadays.

Wiegedood are straight black metal band that has forged its own identity and sound in a very short period of time.

Caustic is a very worthy sophomore album for the Doom/Sludge trio Primitive Man. Prepare to be run over by this audible bulldozer.

Enjoy the latest spawn of one of Spain’s great Black Metal acts!