Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Beyond the Gates Returns to Bergen for Its 14th Chapter
USF Verftet, Grieghallen, and Kulturhuset carry four days of black, death, and doom metal as Bergen’s scene meets international extremity.
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Norway’s Fantoft Stave Church Still Guards Its Ashes
Built around 1150, relocated to Bergen in 1883, destroyed by fire in 1992, and rebuilt by 1997, Fantoft Stave Church…
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Limbonic Art Bind ‘Arcane Past: The Celestial Grimoire’
An eight-disc Kyrck artbook restores a lost 1994 demo and gathers three decades of Norwegian symphonic black metal into a…
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Viande Carve France’s War Dead Into ‘Monument aux Morts’
Chambéry quartet’s second album turns France’s post-war memorial tradition into blackened death metal that reaches listeners far beyond Savoie.
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Bruul Break Yorkshire’s Silence With Their Debut ‘Bruul’
Bruul’s self-titled debut EP reaches Bandcamp on July 31st, carrying Yorkshire’s atmospheric black metal into a wider underground audience.
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Finsterforst Keep Faith With the Black Forest on ‘Still’
Finsterforst return with a sixth album after seven years, carrying Schwarzwald folklore and blast-beat severity to listeners far from the…
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Amarilla’s Debut Anthology ‘Retratos de Niños Asesinos’
A Colombian illustrator’s debut anthology turns seven tales into portraits of children edging toward monstrosity.
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Eshtadur Premieres ‘Into the Woods,’ Its Fifth Album’s Opener
Colombian band Eshtadur previews its fifth album, ‘In Darkness All Shadows Gone,’ with the crow-guided video for ‘Into the Woods.’
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‘Nosferatu Nightmares’ Returns Count Orlok to Comics
American Mythology Productions revisits the 1922 silent film’s plague-vampire in a black-and-white anthology honoring monster magazines.
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Insomnium Ready Their Tenth Album for the ‘Netherworlds’
Finland’s Insomnium follow ‘Anno 1696’ with ‘Netherworlds,’ produced by Jens Bogren, reaching a metal scene already fluent in Finnish melancholy.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Amphi Festival Completes Two Decades on the Rhine
The Tanzbrunnen hosts a 20th Amphi Festival arranged around gothic rock, EBM, and darkwave veterans, from Clan of Xymox to…
