News Posts

Dutch psych rock outfit Iron Jinn presents ‘The Futurist’, an 18 minute long epic taste of their upcoming new album set to be released in September with Suburban Records!

Dutch alt-rock outfit Inside Shadows shared their new single ‘Supernova Gamma Rays’, out with ForSure Records!

Experimental stoner/doom metal duo Cthuluminati releases their new single ‘The Awakening’!

Dutch symphonic metal giants Epica are about to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2027 and what better way to kick off the celebrations with a unique anniversary concert in the beginning of the year at one of Netherlands’ most iconic venues: Koninklijk Theater Carré in Amsterdam!

Pagan folk project Sowulo announced to be reissuing its ‘Sol’ album with their current label Season of Mist 10 years after its original release!

Dutch hard rock/metal band Queen of Spades releases new single and video ‘Chasm’!

Dutch post-black collective The Fifth Alliance shared with ‘The Fool on the Hill’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Stenahoria’, set to be released by the end of this month via Tartarus Records, Ardua Music and Breathe Plastic!

Amsterdam-based progressive groove and hardcore-fusion metal outfit Bigmoth released the title track ‘Meggah Konstrukt’ from their upcoming debut album, set to be released later this year!

Dutch black metal outfit released second single ‘The Black Flame’ with a new music video, dragging the viewer deeper into darkness with a visual ritual. Another track from their upcoming self-titled album set for release next month via Svart Records!

Dutch black metal duo are releasing their new album ‘Verwording’ with Dominance of Darkness Records in April and recently unveiled a first track with ‘Nachten in Wahlheim’!

Album Reviews

Emanating raw, grimy black metal in its most primordial form Doodswens’ self-titled, sophomore album was invoked on last Friday, April 17 via Svart Records.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’

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.

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.