News Posts

Gaerea is ready to venture onto different paths, infusing their intense black metal music with other influences, guiding us into the darkness with their upcoming album ‘Coma’, set for release in October via Season of Mist and shared a couple of weeks ago the lead single ‘Hope Shatters’ with a captivating video! Catch them live at select Europe festivals like Dark River Festival in Finland in 10 days, or at the end of the year on their North American tour supporting Zeal & Ardor!

Atmospheric black metal project Tour d’Ivoire set the release date for their self-titled debut on Antiq on September 6th, and shared an excerpt from one of the tracks on the album!

Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia shared her latest single ‘Nocturne’ with a video, a cover version of the old Finnish classic song of the same name and originally written as a poem by one of the greats of Finnish poetry!

Atmospheric black metal project Arx Atrata makes its long awaited return with stunning new album ‘A Reckoning’ and unveiled a first track with ‘I Was A Witness To His Passing’!

SVNEATR announced their new album ‘Never Return’ to be released next month via Prosthetic Records and unleashed a video for the title track!

Belgian black metal project Coldborn announces the upcoming second album ‘The Unwritten Pages of Death’ and shares some teasers!

Michigan atmospheric black metal ensemble Vesperwynd released their new single ‘Osmosis’!

Australian dark folk/blackgaze project Suldusk shared the new single ‘Crystalline’ with a gripping new video, another track from the upcoming ‘Anthesis’ album, set for release in the beginning of March via Napalm Records!

Amor Fati Productions in conspiracy with Extraconscious Records, announces March 20th to be the international release date for international atmospheric black metal Acathexis’ highly anticipated second album ‘Immerse’ and share the first track ‘The Other’ as a little early taste!

Portland, Maine based atmospheric black metal duo Obsidian Tongue presents their most epic work to date with their upcoming new EP ‘The Stone Heart’, unveiling the title track with a captivating video!

Album Reviews

Roman Saenko’s musical art has brought Drudkh to the forefront of the black metal genre, the new album “All Belong To The Night” crafts beautiful and mesmeric musical landscapes offering a fresh take on atmospheric black metal and standing as one of the band’s best albums.

Trolldom’s “Av Gudars Ätt” Trolldom enters the majestic realm of 90s black metal with songs bejeweled for their sinister and unearthly atmosphere. Out on Iron Bonehead.

AARA’s fourth album “Triade II: Hemera” evokes an aura of modern black metal. The six tracks brim with new elements like Indian female vocals, Jewish Shofar horn and religious choirs.

Bekëth Nexëhmü’s fourth album encapsulates the essence of bands like Ulver, Satyricon and Burzum and draws nearer to the themes of depressing black metal.

Ars Hmu’s debut full length “Empire of Impurity” is as grim and cold as the Norwegian and Swedish black metal counterparts that falls between the atmospheric and the symphonic form of black metal.

“Hymn To The Woeful Hearts” emphasizes epic melodies where Pure Wrath inflects the listener with many pivotal moments on their third album.

“Trisagion” offers a grand spectacle of how modern atmospheric black metal and funeral doom can be effectively engaging and powerful when merged.

Í Myrkri’s third album “Bag Skyggernes Slør” is deeply atmospheric and imaginative, the songs nourish on chilling tremolos and ambient synth soundscapes.

Mastermind Swartadauþuz takes the frosty elements of lo-fi black metal and carves sonic landscapes of a wintry opus on the third outing “De Fornas Likgaldrar”.

Arkhtinn on the sophomore “二度目の災害” convey the kind of haunting wonderment that evokes the eerie sounds of atmospheric/symphonic black metal.