Dutch symphonic metal band Epinikion flows with the current in their second single ‘Lessons in Life (Are for Free)’, out now everywhere!
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Dutch melodic death metal outfit Nox Aeterna unleashed their take on the Boney M classic ‘Ma Baker’!
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Dutch progressive metal pioneers Textures returned with ‘At the Edge of Winter’, featuring Charlotte Wessels and the second single from their upcoming new album ‘Genotype’, set for release in January 2026 on Kscope, right before they go on an extensive European tour as special guests for Jinjer!
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Dutch concept driven death metal band Black Rabbit is releasing a new EP ‘Warren Of Necrosis’ in December and unveiled the single ‘Initium Finis’ with an official music video as a teaser!
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European hardcore heavyweights Born From Pain are delivering yet another kick in the teeth with their latest single ‘My War’, the second taste of their upcoming EP ‘Siege Mentality’, out in a couple of weeks!
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Blackbriar released a piano parlour version of their recent track ‘The Fosilized Widow’, from their latest record ‘A Thousand Little Deaths’, out with Nuclear Blast! Catch them live in Europe traveling all over the place for the rest of the month!
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Dutch punk band Antillectual shared their first ever song in their native language with ‘Voorrang Voor Rechts’, calling out the rather frightening shift to the extreme right in politics and morals all over the world, part of their upcoming exclusively Dutch project ‘Antillectueel’ coming out next month!
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Dutch hardcore veterans Born From Pain returned recently with the new track and video ‘Siege Mentality’, first single and title track from their upcoming EP!
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Dutch black metal innovators Terzij de Horde released the second new single ‘The All-Consuming Work of the Soul’s Foreclosing’ and video of the upcoming album ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone’, set for release in October with Church Road Records!
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Dutch purveyors of esoteric black metal Terzij De Horde signed with Church Road Records for the release of their new album ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone’ in October and shared a first single with ‘The Shadows Of Prefiguration’!
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Album Reviews
Carach Angren’s new EP “Cult of Kariba” is crafted through enthralling aggression and brutal galvanic percussive tempos. The five songs will keep you hooked to the wicked screeching and orchestral arrangements. Out via Season of Mist since Oct 17th. Catch this horror show live at Alcatraz 2026 next summer!
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Distant’s latest release ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin’ is the brutal answer to all who say deathcore has gone soft, where they completely redid the songs from an old EP, brought in some new songs and a bunch of great guests! Released in November 2024 via Century Media Records!
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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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After a brief flirtation with black metal, Funus has slimmed down to a solo project as Ruben Vermeulen dives deeply into the dreamy realm of shoegaze. ‘Mono’ released on February 25 as an independent release.
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The follow-up to ‘Mysterium I’ that was released earlier this year, ‘Mysterium II’ sees Dutch death doom legends Celestial Season take on a more funereal side. Out now via Burning World Records.
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Not unfitting for funeral doom, the debut EP from Dutch duo Angmodnes, ‘The Weight of Eternity’ has been 9 years in the making. Full of majestic, morose melancholy, the album was released on Black Lion Records on September 30.
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From the darkest crevice in Moria Maurice De Jonge has penned a new set of dungeon synth crawlers on Vetus Sepulcrum’s sixth album’ A Shroud of Desolation’
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Dutch death doom legend Celestial Season has lifted the veil on the first installment of an ambitious three album triptych, ‘Mysterium I’, out on Burning World Records.
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With prilgrims coming from both Malta and the Netherlands , Pilgrimage brings us seven tales of doom on their magnificent debut ‘Sigil of the Pilgrim Sun’, out on Sleazy Rider.
You like Nervosa and Burning Witches. You’re crazy about death metal. Then check out Crypta’s debut ‘Echoes of the Soul’, which has it all.
