Zeal & Ardor unveiled a second single with the snarling, staccato new track ‘Clawing Out’, another one from the upcoming 4th album ‘GREIF’, set for release in August!
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News Posts
Post-black act Machukha announced their debut album ‘Mochari’ to be released via Consouling Sounds in June and unveiled an intense video for first single ‘Bezpliddya’!
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Berlin based post-black metal act Nidare has unleased a brand new live session video for ‘Aderlass’, a track from their EP ‘Naehe un Flackern’ released last year via Through Love Records!
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Midwestern post-black outfit Chrome Waves presented their new single/video ‘Into The Water’, bridging the gap between their earlier released album ‘Earth Will Shed Its Skin’ and their impending 5th album set for a 2024 release!
Post-black metal band Cailleach Calling unveil a new standalone track with ‘Glittering Delusion’ after last year’s striking debut album, out via Debemur Morti Productions!
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Myrkur is back! In October her new album ‘Spine’ will be released via Relapse Records, a record that promises a new range of emotional and sonic contours to discover. And she already unveiled a first track with ‘Like Humans’!
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Post-black collective Deadly Carnage to release their concept album ‘Endless Blue’ this fall via A Sad Sadness Song and unveil the single ‘Swan Season’!
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Swedish atmospheric black metal outfit Jord signed to Hammerheart Records for the release of their upcoming album ‘Tundra’, set for release in October!
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Post-black outfit Heretoir unveiled the new track and video ‘Anima’, from their upcoming mini-album ‘Wastelands’, set for release in May via AOP Records!
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Downfall of Gaia unleashed the new single ‘Existence of Awe’, a track from ‘Silhouettes Of Disgust’, the new album set for release via Metal Blade Records in March!
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Lists
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
A list with a lot of black metal seeping in, but with a rather surprising number 1 spot!
Album Reviews
Norwegian black metal outfit Vemod sets new prospective for its second album “The Deepening”. The album is recommended for fans of post-metal and shoegaze and influenced by bands like Alcest, out now via Prophecy Productions since last Friday.
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Silhouette blends post-black and atmospheric black metal with delicate female vocals. “Les Retranchements” conveys gothic influences from bands like Theatre of Tragedy, The Sins of Thy Beloved, and Trees of Eternity.
‘Unyielding/Unseeing’ combines several masterminds who conveyed their genuine ideas to experiment with different musical domains.
Seven years after their initial EP Chrome Waves has found a new lease on life with ‘A Grief Observed’, a record that reaches beyond its post black metal beginnings.
On the 8th of June Consouling Sounds is releasing a Split EP featuring both Soul Grip and VVOVNDS!
The Austrian post-black metal machine has returned to set your world on fire!
Sons Of A Wanted Man transcends the classical boundaries of genres and presents us with a very strong and intense first EP that combines the best of old and new influences.
Photo Reports
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Celeste plays 30 shows on their European tour from which 2 in Belgium. We attended their show in Antwerp.
Check out our pictures of Dutch doom rock band Dool and Austrian post-black metal sensation Harakiri For The Sky here!
An evening of crushing melodic death metal and depressing post-black captured on film…
