Greek black metallers Yoth Iria are releasing their new album ‘Gone With The Devil’ in May on Metal Blade Records and recently shared a first single with ‘The Blind Eye Of Antichrist’!
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Estonian black metal outfit Kõdu are releasing their new album ‘Kirjad Sõgedate Külast’ in April with Antiq Records and unveiled the title track as a first teaser!
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Belgian underground trio Shewolff shared the new track ‘Guillotines’ from upcoming debut mini-album ‘We’re All Gonna Fukking Die’ set for release in May with Dying Victims Productions!
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Extreme metal legends Nunslaughter announced their new album ‘Satanic Chaos Legions’ to be out with BLKIIBLK in June and shared the title track as a first single with a music video!
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Legendary metal band Venom just announced their new album ‘Into Oblivion’ to be out in May with Noise Records/BMG and unvelied a first single with ‘Lay Down Your Soul’!
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Hellsinki Metal Festival has completed its 2026 line-up with the addition of Paradise Lost, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Unleashed, Mawiza, Sanguisugabogg, Omnium Gatherum, Kalmah, Assemble the Chariots, Cyan Kicks, Tungsten, Sepulchral Curse, Orly, Horizon Ignited, Misþyrming, and VREID!
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Dutch black metal duo are releasing their new album ‘Verwording’ with Dominance of Darkness Records in April and recently unveiled a first track with ‘Nachten in Wahlheim’!
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UK black metal legends Winterfylleth unveils new single ‘Echoes In The After’ with a captivating video, another track from their upcoming album ‘The Unyielding Season’, set for release in March via Napalm Records!
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Swedish black metal force Lömsk has unveiled brand new single and video ‘Of Iron and Blood’ from upcoming album ‘Act II – Of Iron and Blood’, set to be released next week Friday via Vendetta Records!
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Vreid and Djerv released the new single ‘Loving the Dead’, a last track unveiled before Vreid’s upcoming album ‘The Skies Turn Black’, and coming with a cinematic video that features Jackass icon Chris Pontius!
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Album Reviews
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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The eighth album from the Italian satanic coven Abhor brings dark morbid tunes of unholy mass with a great mixture of first-wave black metal sound that is similar to bands like Mortuary Drape, Mystifier, Death SS, and Samael, if you are into the occult style of black then you must check ‘Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi)’, released via Iron Bonehead Productions!
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Finnish renowned veterans L.L. (all instruments), and M.M. (Vocals and lyrics) present their symphonic oeuvre under the moniker of Pestilent Hex. Debut album “Ashen Abhorrence” finds its way into the magical hallmarks of melodic/symphonic black metal of the early nineties and was released with Debemur Morti Productions.
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Finnish black outfit Moonlight Sorcery’s musical quest wanders across the creative hallmarks of the Scandinavian black metal, the debut EP “Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity” offers a refreshing and inspirational muse to fans of melodic black metal, out via Avantgarde Music!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!
Pics of the second day of SaariHelvetti, one of the only festivals in Finland during the summer of 2020. Check it out!
Pictures of a great local and underground metal event in Belgium: “Metal at the Attic”!
A night of brutal death, dark black and mind-blowingly intricate metal music with Obscura, God Dethroned, Thulcandra and Fractal Universe!
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!
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