Ukraine’s melodic black metal band Deus Sabaoth drops new single ‘Last Gleam’, taken from their upcoming album ‘Distortion of Lies’, set for release in May via Paragon Records!
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Icelandic Sátan Festival has announced the final line-up for their 2026 edition with not only Icelandic rock legends Sólstafir at the top of the bill, but also acts like The Haunted, Hamferð, Múr, Aborted and many more!
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Earlier this month, Finnish black metal pioneers Azaghal announced their new album ‘Nekrohelios’ to be out with Immortal Frost Productions in May and unleashed a first single with ‘Elävän Kuoleman Tuhannet Kasvot’!
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Sweden’s Bewitched is back. This Friday, they are unleashing their comeback full-length album ‘Diabolical Death Mass’ with Osmose Productions, the first new release in 2 decades!
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Italian black metal outfit Infernal Angels unveiled the third single ‘Rex Mortis’ from their upcoming album ‘As the First Blood Fell…’, set for release next Friday on Immortal Frost Productions!
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British symphonic black metallers Hecate Enthroned unleash their new single and music video ‘Deathless In The Dryad Glade’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried’, set for release next month via M-Theory Audio!
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Finnish industrial black metallers AntiHuman Industries revealed the new track ‘Lucid Dream’, another taste of their upcoming debut album ‘Accelerated Death Impulse’, set for release at the end of this month via W.T.C. Productions! Also, catch them live at Steelfest in about a month!
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Old Moon delivers yet again top quality blackened melodic metal with the title track of their upcoming album ‘Home To Nowhere’! The album is set for release next month with M-Theory Audio. Catch them live in their neighborhoud or this June in Finland!
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Dutch extreme metal festival Nox Occultum has revealed the final lineup for the 2026 edition taking place in September, adding Samael and Beherit among others!
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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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Lists
February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!
A selection of the finest work our concert photographers have gathered in 2021!
First month of 2022 and there are already a bunch of really cool releases coming! Check out our 13 most anticipated releases of the month!
The ultimate selection of black and death metal with the right amount of doom infused. Check out Maxen’s AOTY 2021!
Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!
In the run towards the end of the year, it seems like everyone is releasing something new in November, so here is our a bit more extensive list of most anticipated albums of this month!
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
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!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
A dozen of picks by our editorial team what they deem as the most anticipated releases of April 2021! Good stuff to be found here!
Album Reviews
The 9th studio album “Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence” of the Columbian black metal formation Inquisition offers everything the band has stood for, out since January 26th via Agonia Records.
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The debut full-length album of Secrets, “Towards the Nightside”, captures the Norwegian black metal majesty in an unforgettable performance, the album comes highly recommended for fans of Emperor, Odium, and Limbonic Art. It is a fantastic album finely crafted by members of Gardsghastr, Chaos Moon and Ars Hmu, and offers a masterpiece of symphonic black metal, out now on Amor Fati Productions since January 23rd.
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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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French black/death metal band Necrowretch returns with another blasphemous album. Their fifth album “Swords of Dajjal” is fast and hellish and arguably the band’s best offering to date, out since last Friday via Season of Mist.
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Norwegian black metal outfit Vemod sets new prospective for its second album “The Deepening”. The album is recommended for fans of post-metal and shoegaze and influenced by bands like Alcest, out now via Prophecy Productions since last Friday.
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The maniacal duo of the Indian black/death metal outfit Tetragrammacide presents one of the best offerings in the extreme metal genre this year. “Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an” spits venomous fire brought by the mastery of the percussive force. The album was released via Iron Bonehead Productions on November 3rd.
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The third album of the international black metal trio Slidhr “White Hart!” uniquely mixes the style of orthodox black metal with a dose of ambiance. The album was released on October 13th, via Debemur Morti Productions, and is to believed being one of the best black metal releases of the year if we can trust our reviewer.
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Just in time to be put under the Christmas tree comes Serpents Oath’s final panel to their Luciferian triptych. ‘Revelation’ is unrelenting black metal fury, full of fire and brimstone and a bright flame for the Belgian black metal scene. Out on December 20 via Odium Records and highly recommended for fans of modern sounding old school black metal in the vein of for instance Watain.
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Norwegian symphonic black metal outfit Troll returns with its latest effort ‘Trolldom’ and offers fans thirty-seven minutes of cold, necro atmosphere. The fifth album is out now and released via Polypus Records.
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Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
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