German black metal act DAGDRØM announces their debut album ‘Schauder’ to be out in May and shares a first single with ‘Ascheregen’!
News Posts
Portland’s blackened death-mongers Drouth return with the release of their 3rd album ‘The Teeth of Time’ this May with Eternal Warfare Records, and shared the single ‘False Grail’!
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Belgian black metal outfit Solfatare announced their debut album ‘Asservis par l’espoir’ to be out in May via Signal Rex and share a first track with ‘Du deuil affairé’!
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Symphonic black/death metal outfit Wythersake releases the single ‘Bloodlet The Lepers Created’, a track from the upcoming record, out next week with Scarlet Records!
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Greek black/death metal outfit Exilium Noctis shares brand new video for ‘Devil’s March’ from their upcoming studio album ‘Pactum Diaboli’, set for release in May!
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Greek black metallers Lucifer’s Child unveiled a music video for their new single ‘Ichor’, another track released in anticipation of new studio album ‘The Illuminant’, set for release by the end of the month via Agonia Records!
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Symphonic black metallers Belnejoum shared the new video ‘Tower of Silence’, the second track to be revealed from their highly anticipated debut album ‘Dark Tales of Zarathustra’, set for release in April via Antiq!
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Austrian black metal project Antikvlt just shared new single ‘What Love Can’t Buy’, featuring Hoest from Taake! A track from the upcoming debut album ‘A Revelation of Intoxication’, set for release with Immortal Frost Productions on March 21st!
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Hellenic metal legends Rotting Christ share a live video for the medley of ‘Sorrowful Farewell & Among Two Storms’, from the upcoming live album ’35 Years of Evil Existence – Live in Lycabettus’, set for release in April via Season of Mist! Catch them live for real on “The Unholy Trinity 2025” tour with Behemoth and Satyricon in April, or this summer at plenty of European festivals like Dark River, Tolminator and Alcatraz!
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Finnish blackthrash institution Urn have revealed the new track ‘Burning Blood’s Curse’, the first taste of what is to come with their highly anticipated album ‘Demon Steel, set for release by the end of this month via Osmose Productions! If you wanna catch these maniacs live in the nearby future, we’d highly recommend you to get to Steelfest 2025 in May!
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Album Reviews
Omegaeternum’s debut full length album “1248” binds epic and mystical atmosphere by unfolding eerie melodies, the Frenchmen have crafted a unique black metal album. Out since November 25th via Ván Records.
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Mörk Gryning’s newest album “Fasornas Tid” offers unrelenting aggression and rawness packed with the 90s black metal quality. Out via Season of Mist tomorrow, December 13th.
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The uniqueness and quality crowns Djevel’s new album “Natt Til Ende” as one of the best black metal albums of the year, the chant passages are saturated in the grimness of 90s black metal as each riff and melody offers many epic moments. Out via Avantgarde Music.
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Finland’s symphonic/melodic black metal outfit Pestilent Hex crafts the traditional sound of Scandinavian black metal on the second full length album “Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow”, out via Debemur Morti Productions since last week’s Friday.
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Paysage d’Hiver’s third studio album “Die Berge” is nothing short of brilliant and conveys the imaginative art of Nordic black metal. Out via Kunsthall Produktionen since November 8th.
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Gaerea unveils its composition and musical faculties with remarkable quality on their fourth studio album “Coma” and show an interesting new approach from these musicians, shifting somewhat towards a more generally extreme metal with an atmospheric post-black vibe, turning this into their best effort yet. Out via Season of Mist since October 25th.
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Polish black metal pioneers Arkona return with a supreme and majestic album. ‘Stella Pandora’ is one of the best releases in the genre this year. Out on Debemur Morti Productions.
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After thirty years Adorior slithers out from the depths of hell to convey its satanic wicked album ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ through the medium of raw fucking metal. Out via Dark Descent Records and comes highly recommended for fans of Slayer, Absu and Angelcorpse!
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1349’s new studio album ‘The Wolf & The King’ is impressive and engaging, full of dynamics and fiery tremolo riffage, delivering unrelenting aggression. This is a great return of one of Norway’s prominent black metal acts and out via Season of Mist.
Catch them on tour right now with Kampfar and Afsky, with a stop at Helsinki’s Ääniwalli tomorrow!
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The new and highly anticipated eleventh album “Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle” from the Finnish black metal icons Horna is a pure definition of evil. One of this year’s top black metal releases, out via World Terror Committee tomorrow, September 13th!
