Galibot unveil new single ‘Pénitent’ and video ahead of their upcoming album ‘Catabase’, out May 8 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. A brutal and melancholic descent into Northern France’s mining history.
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US black metallers Abigail Williams announced their European tour to take place in early summer with Shagor joining for the Europe mainland dates!
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Atmospheric black metal act Sotabosc unveiled their haunting new single ‘Freyja’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘El Batec dels Maquis’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Dunk!Records!
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UK black metal legends Winterfylleth released their latest album ‘The Unyielding Season’ via Napalm Records and now unleashed a visualizer for the title track!
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Polish black metal outfit Varmia shares with ‘dzień, pół nocy’ their anthem to the northern wilderness, the land of wolf packs, ancient forests and pure waters and another track unveiled from upcoming album ‘lauks’, set for release next week Friday via M-Theory Audio!
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Belgian atmospheric black/doom band Splendidula unveiled new single ‘Absentia’, featuring Tim Yatras from Austere and Germ and the title track of their upcoming album set for release in April via Argonauta Records!
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Ukrainian atmospheric black metal entity Drudkh announced upcoming EP ‘Thaw’ (out in April via Season of Mist) with the release of the lead single ‘Memory’!
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The Silver revealed their new music video and single ‘When the Moon is Three’, another offering of their upcoming album ‘Looking Glass Hymnal Blue’, set for release next month with Gilead Media!
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Gaerea release new single ‘Nomad’ from their upcoming album ‘Loss’, out in March with Century Media Records!
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Brand-new Finnish festival Ankea Festival completed its first line-up last Friday with the addition of Leprous, Textures, Sylvaine, Royal Sorrow and Demonic Death Judge, continuing to build a highly impressive roster of bands!
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Our editor-in-chief Vaim’s selection of albums of the year has turned into an eclectic mix that brings both unbridled chaos and extremes while maintaining a level of catchy with releases from bands like Blackbraid, Cabal, Zeal & Ardor, Machine Head, Wolfheart, Wiegedood, Doodseskader, Malevolence, Psychonaut and The Callous Daoboys!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
Things are getting ramped up now that the summer period is at its end! Great releases are coming out soon and it showed in the past week with new singles from Slipknot, Gaerea, Alien Weaponry, Brymir, Orbit Culture, Suasion ft. Steffi Pacson and The Callous Daoboys that amazed us!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!
August proves to be a highly exciting and surprisingly full month for new releases! Here is a small selection of those that are most anticipated by our editorial staff!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
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The symphonic and menacing black metal debut “The Cursed Oak”, by Alex Poole side project band, Kveldstimer invites you to wander through ancient woods under the moon, out via Bestial Rape Records!
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The long-awaited album “Shadow Play” sees Drudkh embracing its melancholic atmospheres and delving into Pagan and raw black metal. Out now via Season of Mist!
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Grima’s new album “Nightside” imbues an epic and somber atmospheric black metal grandeur through its interchanging tempos and bringing fans one of their best studio albums. The sixth studio album is out via Napalm Records since yesterday.
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“Kadath” takes elements of both modern and vintage black metal to blend a lavish sense of melodies, sweeping the listener towards an atmospheric spectrum. The Great Old Ones conjures an otherworldly musical voyage that will not disappoint their fans, out tomorrow with Season of Mist!
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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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The third offering ‘Eastern Tales’ from the French atmospheric black metal project Belore will be much appreciated by fans of Summoning, Caladan Brood and Emyn Muil. Out via Northern Silence Productions.
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The ninth studio album “Heavenly Down” from the Hungarian black metal masters Sear Bliss brings back memories of the past albums in a most breathless passionate spirit; capturing the hallmark of the band. Out via Hammerheart Records, it is a must for fans of symphonic and atmospheric black metal, and highly recommended to anyone who likes Summoning, Forest Silence, and Negură Bunget.
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The Swiss atmospheric black metal/ambient act DarkSpace offer an interesting variation on the new album “Dark Space -II”. DarkSpace opted to a highly imaginative listening session, out via Season of Mist on February 16th.
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Hulder on its second full length album “Verses In Oath” presents an enthralling mixture of pagan/folk black metal with many unforgettable epic moments, out via 20 Buck Spin today, February 9th.
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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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