Progressive blackened metal band Tómarúm announced their upcoming sophomore album ‘Beyond Obsidian Euphoria’, set for release in April via Prosthetic Records and unleashed a first track with ‘Shed This Erroneous Skin’!
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Finnish black/thrash metal institution Urn is set to release their new album ‘Demon Steel’ via Osmose Productions at the end of March and are revealing a first track in the beginning of next month!
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On ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’, NITE guards the altar of blackened heavy metal with sharpened blades and axes raised, out in March via Season of Mist, get to listen to the title track already right now!
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Finnish pagan atmospheric black metal artist Vermilia has unveiled a new video for her latest single ‘Veresi’, a track from her upcoming album ‘Karsikko’, set for release next week Friday February 14!
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Cross Bringer announces their highly anticipated second album ‘Healismus Aeternus’, out on February 21 via Consouling Sounds and Silent Pendulum Records and shared the track ‘Desolation Hypnosis’!
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Greek atmospheric black metallers Lucifer’s Child announced their long-awaited new album ‘The Illuminant’, set for release in March via Agonia Records, and marked their return by their new single ‘Antichrist’!
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Wrath of Logarius announced to be releasing their new album ‘Crown of Mortis’ via Season of Mist in April, and unleashed yet another fiery example of their “formless black metal” with the track ‘Keeper of the Spectral Legion’!
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Symphonic black metal project Anfauglir has inked a deal with Debemur Morti Productions to bring their next album inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age into this world.
Italian doom outfit Ponte Del Diavolo just announced their first European festival shows for 2025 at renown events like Inferno Metal Festival, Roadburn and Sonic Rites, after having released their haunting debut ‘Fire Blades from the Tomb’ via Season of Mist last year!
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French troubled black metallers Decline Of The I shared their new single ‘Éros N’ in anticipation of the release of ‘Wilhelm’, the upcoming album set for release in February via Agonia Records!
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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.
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Finnish melodic black metal stalwarts Moonlight Sorcery paint shimmering landscapes of winter on their first studio album “Horned Lord of The Thorned Castle” which amalgamate the fantasy style of Scandinavian melodies with a sense of fantasy. Out now via Avantgarde Music!
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Bathe yourself in the blood of virgins with Countess Erszebeth’s self-titled and self-released new mini album. A doomy, magick-inducing piece of black metal, released earlier this summer.
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The international black/doom metal collective The Rite offers a chilling atmosphere of horror on their sophomore album, “The Astral Gloom. For those who like their music dark and mysterious, look no further. Released via Iron Bonehead Productions.
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Marduk’s fifteenth studio album “Memento Mori” perfectly fits with the raw aesthetics of the band. In terms of quality and songwriting the ten tracks offer sinister and furious black metal, this is one of the band’s best albums and is set for release this Friday via Century Media Records!
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On “Nahab”, the second part of the ‘Disharmonium’ series, the French avant-garde black metal Blut Aus Nord offers another frightening album that resonate to the horror mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Released via Debemur Morti Productions.
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With ‘Prosaic’, Liam Neigbors’ (aka A.L.N.) brainchild Mizmor takes a less conceptual, down to earth approach to its unique mixture of depressive black metal and funeral doom, making each song stand on its own two feet in this bleak slice of life. Out via Profound Lore Records on this Friday, July 21.
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The Finnish veterans …And Oceans have delivered one of their best works to date ‘As in Gardens, So in Tombs’ which stands as their most accomplished album since their masterwork debut ‘The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts’. This is simply a feast for fans of symphonic and melodic black metal. Out via Season of Mist.
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Mastermind V-Khaoz of Vargrav continues to carve his sonic art in the footsteps of the Norwegian masters Emperor, the new EP output “Encircle the Spectral Dimension” emphasizes the majestic art of symphonic black metal. Out via Werewolf Records.
