News Posts

Portland blackened death metal band Drouth are gearing up to release their impending album ‘The Teeth of Time’ next week Friday May 16th on Eternal Warfare Records and shared a video for the title track last week!

Earlier this week, to celebrate their European tour with Satyricon and Rotting Christ starting, Behemoth shared the new video and single ‘Lvciferaeon’, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Shit Ov God’, set for release in May with Nuclear Blast!

In a collision of Belgian and Thai extreme metal sensibilities, blackened death metal project YHWH signed with Wormholedeath for the release of their upcoming EP ‘Tetragrammaton’ out on April 25!

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’!

Blackened death metallers Aoidos released ‘From the Surface Grate’, the third single from their upcoming album ‘Oizys’, set to be released on November 29th via Nox Liberartio Records!

German blackened death metal act The Spirit released the crushing new single ‘Room 101’, from their upcoming album ‘Songs Against Humanity’ set for release next month via AOP Records!

Montreal’s Valfreya’s ‘Dawn Of Reckoning’ is a blackened folk descent into mythological madness and is available for your listening pleasure as of today!

Australian blackened heavy metal collective Black Lava announced their upcoming new album ‘The Savage Winds to Wisdom’ set to be released in July and unleashed a first taste of the darkness to come with the single ‘Ironclad Sarcophagus’!

Blistering UK blackened death metal quintet Turin dropped relentless new video ‘Loss’ featuring Travis Worland from Enterprise Earth, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing’ to be released in July via MNRK Heavy!

Toronto blackened technical death metal collective Apogean shares their new video single ‘Bluelight Sonata’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Cyberstrictive’, set for release next month via The Artisan Era!

Album Reviews

Hate’s new album “Bellum Regiis” is another remarkable piece of Slavic aggression that solidifies the style of this Polish institution. Out via Metal Blade Records since last Friday May 2nd.

Greek titans Nightfall display remarkable musicianship on their eleventh studio album “Children of Eve”, out via Season of Mist since yesterday. The songs embrace and recapture the gothic facet of its music with dark atmosphere.

Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.

The Turku, Finland-based blackened death metal quintet Sepulchral Curse crafts its niche on the third studio album “Crimson Moon Evocations” out via Dark Descent Records since last month! Catch their show at Tuska Festival this summer, you won’t regret it!

The Dutch blackened death metal quartet God Dethroned cements its signature style on the twelfth studio album ‘The Judas Paradox’. Out via Atomic Fire Records.

Vltimas’ second full length album “Epic” deliver plenty of head-banging moments for fans of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, and Cryptopsy. This is a coherent record that showcases the chemistry between these veterans and takes what they already did expertly on their debut to a whole new level. Out since today via Season of Mist!

Vitriol’s second full length album “Suffer & Become” is ultimately bombastic and brutal, the Oregon based quartet has strengthened its ante with weaponized barbaric instrumentation. The album comes highly recommended for fans of Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage and Anaal Nathrakh, out now via Century Media Records since last Friday, January 26th.

After embedding their sound in the realms of blackened death/doom, U.K.’s quartet Strigoi returns with a short EP “Bathed in A Black Sun”, presenting fans with exclusive and unreleased tracks out via Season of Mist.

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!

The fourth dreadful opus “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals” from North Rhine-Westphalia blackened death outfit Sulphur Aeon conveys an otherworldly sense of might to the ancient creatures that lurk beneath the seas out now via Ván Records on October 13th.

Hail Cthulhu!!!
Hail Sulphur Aeon!!!!

Photo Reports

Infected Rain

This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!

Seth

12 Episodes on the counter for Full Moon Fest in Belgium, and this one was the second Black metal edition for them. Of course, we were there too with a line-up put together of great Belgian acts like nether, Nyrak and Sapovnela, and extreme metal icons from France Necrowretch and Seth!

Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!

Polish metal icons BEHEMOTH! are roaming through Europe with their ‘Deathless Summer Tour 2023’ and struck down at Substage in Karlsruhe, Germany with the support of Hypocrisy and SpiritWorld. A gorgeous night of some of the best metal the world has to offer right now, and extreme temperatures despite no pyro being used.

On a Sunday autumn evening in Finland we saw total Polish death metal takeover of On The Rocks Helsinki with Vader, Hate and Thy Disease at on of the stops on the “Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022”! For a Sunday, there was quite the massacre unleashed in the pit!

The 3rd and last day of Tuska 2019 was a good moment to chill out a bit, but still had some impressive artists!

Behemoth invaded Europe in a satanic event that brought Swedish At The Gates and American Wolves In The Throne Room with them! And here are the pics!

Arch Enemy played a near sold out show in 013 in Tilburg, if you didn’t get to be there, this was our impression!