Finnish garage rock greats Sweatmaster offered another bite from their upcoming fifth album ‘More!’ with a video for the title track! The album is set for release via Svart Records in January 2026!
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Finnish industrial metal juggernaut Dome Runner unleashed their new single ‘Salvation Access’, another track from their upcoming album ‘World Panopticon’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Svart Records!
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The original soundtrack by Pétur Ben of cult film ‘Metalhead’ is finally going to be available on vinyl for the first time, to be released accompanied by the film on Blu-ray, booklet and poster in December via Svart Records!
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Finnish death metal unit Abhorrence honours the Great Old Ones of death metal and unleashed the single and video ‘Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal’ as a tribute to Possessed and the 40th anniversary of the album that started it all: ‘Seven Churches’!
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Finnish sludge metal force Sunniva announce their album ‘Hypostasis’ to be released with Svart Records in September and unleashed harrowing first single ‘Mercurial Bloodstreams’!
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Finnish rocka rollas Rokets are set to release their third album ‘Bad Choices’ in May with Svart Records and shared a 2nd single and video with ‘Overload’!
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The Finnish underground scene welcomes a formidable new entity under the form of Entheomorphosis and their debut album ‘PYHÄ KUILU’ out in May via Svart Records! Featuring members from Dark Buddha Rising and the genre-defying Mr Peter Hayden/PH/Enphin, this will be yet another exciting entity coming from Finland!
Release show at this year’s edition of Sonic Rites Festival in Helsinki in the last weekend of May!
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Finnish pagan black metal unit Havukruunu are taking one step closer to the release of their new album ‘Tavastland’ via Svart Records next month by unleashing second single ‘Havukruunu ja Talvenvarjo’!
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Finnish horror blues punks Black Totem are back to haunt your lives with their upcoming third album ‘III: Sacrifice Tonite’, to be released via Svart Records in June, and unleashed the title track upon this world!
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Dutch dark folk artist Kati Rán released the new track ‘Kólga | 16’ with a lyric video, another track from her upcoming new album ‘SÁLA’ to be released in May via Svart Records!
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Album Reviews
Havukruunu crafted a diverse piece of work that fits with the pagan themes of the past albums and presenting a sonic medium that connects the band with the ancient tale of ‘Tavastland’. Out this Friday via Svart Records, this is highly recommended for fans of Moonsorrow and the likes! Catch them live with their new album this Friday in Helsinki, at select places in Finland over the coming months, or this summer at Tuska!
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U.S. death metal band Petrification returns with a brand-new album “Sever Sacred Light” out since February 9th via Svart Records. The album is recommended for fans who like their death metal obscure and old school.
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Come on and shake your coffin to The Coffinshakers latest record, ‘Graves, Release Your Dead’, an insane mix of weird western, Halloween, psychobilly and Johnny Cash, out via Svart Records.
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8 years after the near perfect ‘The Year is One’, one of the longest running Finnish doom acts Spiritus Mortis has returned with a new lineup and a fifth album ‘The Great Seal’, easing down a bit on the heavy doom riffery and replacing it with simply epic sounding heavy metal. Out on Svart Records since last Friday.
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I Am The Night has mastered its craft on the first full-length album “While The Gods Are Sleeping” what we have here is a supreme embodiment of the Swedish and Norwegian trademarks.
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After six funeral paced years the grandmasters of Finnish funeral doom have returned to the crematorium with their sixth full length ‘Companion’. Out via their countrymen of Svart Records
Like the drug, Opium Warlords’ “Nembutal” heals the listener of his or hers anxiety and leaves you sober and with an open mind.
Thirty years after Winter’s groundbreaking death doom debut ‘Into Darkness’, founding member, Stephen Flam, has penned its spiritual follow up with his new band, Göden, on ‘Beyond Darkness’.
Hexvessel have pulled a new set of songs from their sleeves for the new album ‘Kindred’. The best magical forest folk from Finland you can find…
With ‘Alloy’ Svart Records continues its quest to make all of Skepticism’s back catalogue available again.
