After unveiling the Bright & Black project, where metal music and orchestral music meet, and the first track ‘Nidhugg’ a few weeks ago, now there is also a music video for the song!
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News Posts
The new project Bright & Black, where symphony orchestra meets metal music, with contributors from bands like Apocalyptica, Opeth, Watain, Entombed AD, and Meshuggah, unveiled a first glimpse of the upcoming album (out early next year) with the track ‘Nidhugg’!
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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!
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The legendary Swedish black metal outfit Watain unleashed another single and video with “We Remain” in anticipation to the release of their new album!
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Abbath and Watain announces a massive European co-headline tour in 2022, aptly named “Chariots Of Fire”!
The lineup announcement for the 15th anniversary edition of Hellfest (2020)! Are you excited yet? We sure are! Check which bands have been announced!
In some months you’ll get to read the story of Rotting Christ while you try to stay warm inside…
One of the most prolific names in the music photography world has signed with prominent metal and rock label Season of Mist!
The new year has just started and here we are again with a whole list of new releases to look forward to!
The line-up for next year’s Steelfest Open Air is complete and you can feel the darkness and evil already approaching!
Photo Reports
Year 2023 is closing out and we at GRIMM have our sights set for next year and all the amazing shows and festivals coming up, but before that, let’s look into this past year in photos once again with a selection of Emerik’s favorite pictures, going from extreme and underground, to legendary bands like Nocturnal Sorcery, Horna, Nunslaughter, Merrimack, Pensées Nocturnes, Sex Messiah, Kalmankantaja, VV, Sick Of It All, Lordi, Michael Monroe, The Hellacopters, Possessed, The Mission, Lorna Shore, Kuvotus, Ingested, Voivod, Sodom, Watain, Burst, Full Of Hell, Demolition 23, and Brujeria!
An unholy celebration of Christ’s Death with Watain and Obnoxious Youth? Sign us up! Check out the pictures of this blasphemous night!
Steelfest 2018 was again a weekend filled with underground music celebrating black mass and pagan rituals. Check out the pictures we took at the event!
Previews
The first edition of brand-new festival Hellsinki Metal Festival is quickly approaching and they’ve constantly been sharing more details and updates. So it was about time to gather what we already know about the fest in a preview…
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A little look on how one of the best underground metal festivals is like…
Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2016 will take place on the 16th and 17th of December in the Effenaar, Eindhoven.
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If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
A list consisting of the best honest, true and ball kicking releases of 2018!
Album Reviews
Watain achieved mastery over its craft the long-awaited seventh album ‘The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain’ is a masterwork of demonic grandiosity that breaks in a new cycle of vicious savagery. The change in sound here reflects natural progression without sacrificing the foundations of the band.
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‘Theion’ brings the pure aggression of the second wave of black metal. This is by far the best offering to date from these Swedish warmongers.
“The Burning Dawn” is a great follow up to Cloak’s debut album, and the blackened occultists present a sheer aggression and diversity within the new tracks.
The first release from Malakhim is a dark and ominous black metal opus that will re-shape the style of the Swedish black metal in near future.
“Sounds from the Vortex” is refreshingly modern and it’s definitely one of the substantial releases of 2018. Fans of Dissection, Sacramentum and Unanimated will dig this excellent release.
These Portuguese black metallers has installed a set of dynamic formulas to their debut entitled Unsettling Whispers, which can be defined as a modern black metal record that has a consequence gist of melodies and excellent song writing.
Trident wolf eclipse, the latest album by Watain releases the wild wolf inside you.
