After releasing their new album ‘Coma’ at the end of the month via Season of Mist, Gaerea will embark on a European headline tour in 2025 to bring their new music and intense show to their dedicated followers! Get your tickets now!
News Posts
Gaerea expand the depths of their despair on new single ‘Suspended’, yet another captivating track and video from the upcoming album ‘Coma’, set for release next month via Season of Mist!
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Thy Catafalque unleash a metallic punishment on the new single ‘Mindenevő’, a blackened blistering track from the upcoming new album ‘XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek’, set for release in November via Season of Mist!
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Blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros shared a new music video for the track ‘Cephalopodic Void’, from their latest album ‘Velvet Incandescence’ released last year via Prosthetic Records!
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Finnish pagan metal artist Vermilia released her first single ‘Vakat’ from the upcoming new album ‘Karsikko’, set for release in early 2025! Catch her the coming week on her Spanish tour, and later this season in Finland for a couple of dates like this year’s Melancholy Mass Festivals in Tampere and Helsinki!
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Polish black metal outfit Arkona shared a second glimpse into their upcoming 8th album ‘Stella Pandora’ (out next week via Debemur Morti Productions) with the single ‘Prometheus’! We’re already looking forward to seeing them live at next year’s Steelfest!
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Norwegian black metal icons 1349 unleashed ‘Inferior Pathways’ last week, the latest onslaught from their upcoming album ‘The Wolf and The King’, set for release in a couple of weeks on Season of Mist!
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Finnish folkloric black metallers The Mist From the Mountains revealed the new track ‘Sáiva’, the second one brought into the world from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘Portal – The Gathering of Storms’, set for release on October 11th via Primitive Reaction!
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Варфоломей’s Batushka announces that with the change of the year, so will a new version of the band will come to life and this under a new name! From 2025, the band will be known as Patriarkh, serving their pilgrims with new music free from litigation and the negativity that came with their former name.
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Last week, German black metallers Firtan revealed the third single ‘Contra Vermes’, in anticipation of next week’s release of their highly anticipated 4th album ‘Ethos’ via AOP Records!
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Album Reviews
“Into Sorrow Evermore” truly reflects the sonic aspects of these talented musicians which seems a perfect combination of atmosphere and grim black metal. Imperium Dekadenz has become true masters of their craft in capturing the quintessence of atmospheric black metal where each track showcases different styles of melodic and atmospheric black metal. Out on January 20 via Napalm Records.
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With “Aamongandr” Satanic Warmaster retains its status in Finnish and European black metal, every nuance of the following eight tracks makes the new album close to a masterwork. The sheer brilliance of the effective riffs and the stellar production, and the addition of the orchestration will make you behold the greatness of the composition. Released via Werewolf Records.
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Erzfeynd second full-length album “Muspilli” invokes pagan and medieval atmospheres, mastermind Nahdrut Herlarecks utilizes a vast composition and brings a grandeur saga to his sonic oeuvre and with the music woven into grand atmospheric qualities. Out on Ván Records.
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Erzfeynd’s full-length album “Behaft Behert” takes you back to the ancient medieval times, this is a fresh take on atmospheric and raw black metal, if you are into bands like Troll, Manes and Abigor then this is for you. Out via Ván Records.
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“Never Surrender” is much of a continuation to its predecessor but the quartet stampedes into a wildfire like tempos, the songs are fast, relentlessly aggressive, and infectious. Deströyer 666 has returned with impressive work that conveys the classic hallmarks of heavy/speed and blackened thrash metal, released via Season of Mist.
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Darkthrone on its 20th album tackles the old era of traditional metal in a very conventional method. Although some of the tracks may lack the raw organic sound, nevertheless “Astral Fortress” is an epic blackened and doom-laden heavy metal record that is gritty and bold to its core! Out via Peaceville Records.
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Swiss black metal duo Ateiggär on the first studio album “Tyrannemord” incorporates something rare that makes their music one of a kind, this is a great Nordic-inspired piece of a symphonic black metal that comes similar to bands like Kvist. Out via Eisenwald.
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“Naa Skrider Natten Sort” is without doubt one of the best albums in black metal this year, Djevel has aptly presented themselves as true disciples next to bands like Whoredom Rife and Mare. With its beautiful atmosphere and grim melodies it is an epic black metal album with the songwriting and composition making it an instant classic. Out since today via Aftermath Music.
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Ymir’s sophomore release “Aeons of Sorrow” invokes the cold icy melodies of the mid-nineties Finnish black metal, mastermind Vrasjarn maintains the characteristic sound of the band and for this reason, the new album will appeal to many fans of the genre. Released via Werewolf Records.
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”Viscera” is a sonic nightmare sustained by the abrasive elements of blackened death doom, Strigoi depicts utter bleakness and redefines its style where the band takes a logical step forward from the debut album. Released via Season of Mist.
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Photo Reports
Pictures of a most impressive night with Moonsorrow playing their popular ‘Verisäkeet’ album from start to finish! Check it out!
Dimmu Borgir en Amorphis co-headline a sold out 013 on their EU Tour.
Full Moon “Black and Death” Edition 2019 with Thurisaz, The Committee, Oceans Burning, Fractured Insanity, Coldborn, Ars Veneficium and Antzaat.
Pictures of a night with some of black metal greats, headed by the Norwegian legends of Mayhem!
Pictures of the show Tribulation played opening for Ghost at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki!
Pictures of the second night of a gathering of wolves at Steelchaos 2019!
The pictures of the first day of Steelchaos 2019, a gathering of wolves!
Day 2 of Blowup Vol. 5 had an even more impressive line-up to get mesmerized by. Here are the pics of the day!
The 3rd and last day of Tuska 2019 was a good moment to chill out a bit, but still had some impressive artists!
We were in for a treat with Skindred on this early morning, so we got into party mode really quickly!
