When darkness descends, NITE flies high with blackened heavy metal! Their upcoming album ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’ is set to be released in March via Season of Mist and shared the single ‘Crow (Fear The Night)’ with a cult inspired video!
News Posts
Enigmatic Greek black metal act Fell Omen unveils debut album ‘Invaded By A Dark Spirit’, set for release in February via True Cult Records and shared a new song/video with ‘Dungeon Metal Punks Besieging Digital Castles’!
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Finnish atmospheric black metal project Vermilia shares her new single ‘Veresi’, another taste of her upcoming album ‘Karsikko’, set for release next month!
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Finnish black thrash outfit Beatrix opened the new year with the release of their aggressive new EP ‘Deathsent Ceremony’, and are gearing up to record their first full-length this spring!
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One-woman black metal project Machtklang unveiled their new single ‘Herbsthymne’ in anticipation of the release of the self-titled album on December 24th!
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UK extreme metallers Abduction released second single ‘Razors of Occam’ from their upcoming album ‘Existentialismus’, set for release in February 2025 via Candlelight Records!
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Finland’s degraded fiends Scumripper are finally back with their highly anticipated second album ‘For a Few Fixes More’, set for release in February 2025 via Dying Victims Productions and Headsplit Records, and shared a teaser medley to get you totally excited!
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Finnish artist Vermilia released her latest single/music video ‘Kansojen Kaipuu’, taken from her upcoming album ‘Karsikko’, set for an early 2025 release! Come and see her live tomorrow at our very own venue Asgaard!
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Tolminator, the metal summer holiday festival you want to put in your schedule if you’re looking for a good time with even greater music, has confirmed 8 more names for their 2025 line-up a couple of days ago! If you want to see Me And That Man, Villagers Of Ioannina City, Midnight, Psycroptic, High Parasite, Mimi Barks, Slug Gore and our friends of Brutal Sphincter among many other exciting names, you might want to get your tickets ASAP!
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Siberian atmospheric black metal legion Grima is set to release their 6th album ‘Nightside’ via Napalm Records in early 2025 and shared a first captivating single with ‘Skull Gatherers’!
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Photo Reports
Seeing Gaerea live is an incredible and intense experience, and they blew us away at their sold out show at On The Rocks with support from the locals Venenum Dei! A production by Nem Agency and Loose Mind Productions.
Rising stars in the melodeath realms, Aephanemer is touring, and we visited them on their stop at The Black Lab in Wasquehal, France. Warm up act were black folk metallists Sorcières.
On a wintry and snowy night in Helsinki, the Scottish atmospheric black outfit Saor blew us away with an amazing show at Tiivistämö with special guests …and Oceans and openers Marrasmieli!
Grilling season was figuratively and quite literally opened when The European Siege tour starring Unto Others, Carcass, Behemoth and Arch Enemy hit Jäähalli in Helsinki with their first sold out show of the tour.
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Steelchaos is always a fantastic event to get to take pictures at, especially with on day 1 shows from Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum!
Gaahls Wyrd is going from city to city in Europe, spreading their dark tunes with the support of their label mates Gaerea and at the stop at the Backstage in Munich Winterfylleth!
Album Reviews
Just in time to be put under the Christmas tree comes Serpents Oath’s final panel to their Luciferian triptych. ‘Revelation’ is unrelenting black metal fury, full of fire and brimstone and a bright flame for the Belgian black metal scene. Out on December 20 via Odium Records and highly recommended for fans of modern sounding old school black metal in the vein of for instance Watain.
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Norwegian symphonic black metal outfit Troll returns with its latest effort ‘Trolldom’ and offers fans thirty-seven minutes of cold, necro atmosphere. The fifth album is out now and released via Polypus Records.
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Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
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Hellenic black metal masters Varathron are back with a majestic seventh album “The Crimson Temple”. An epic triumphant return that combines bombastic melodies and dark choirs and a landmark in the modern era of Hellenic black metal, out on December 1st via Agonia Records.
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20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.
Swedish melodic blackened death metal super group Night Crowned offers a compelling mixture of aggression and modern mixture of Nordic melodies on the third album ‘Tales’ out via Noble Demon Records today!
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The sophomore offering “O Próbie Wiary I Jarzmie Zwątpienia” from the rising black metal outfit Mānbryne showcases excellent musicianship and artistic approach, out now, on Terratur Possessions and Malignant Voices.
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International black metal outfit Taubrą offers an intriguing mixture of atmospheric and dark venomous black metal on its debut album “Therizo” out via Debemur Morti Productions tomorrow, October 13th!
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Dutch black metal quintet Salacious Gods makes a surprising return with their comeback album “Oalevluuk”, a solid piece of Nordic-styled black metal out on October 6th via Hammerheart Records.
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Washington-based atmospheric black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room treat the fans with yet another grim and ambient piece of black metal on the newest EP “Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge” out now via Relapse Records on September 29th.
