Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Death. Void. Terror. Reemerge in ‘To the Great Monolith 2.5’
The anonymous Swiss project’s first release since 2020 lands on cassette only, its ritual concept rooted in trance practices older…
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Mass Minor Chases Doubt Toward ‘Beyond the Edge of Reason’
The Austin project follows a confessional single into a November album, carrying a regional dark-music lineage onto international stages.
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Infest Tests Its Manchester Foothold for a Second Year
The UK’s longest-running dark-electronic festival returns to Manchester Academy, with IAMX headlining and Utah Saints in an Infest debut.
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Zyklon and the Machine Inside Norwegian Black Metal
Zyklon lasted three albums and nine years, and converted exhausted black metal vocabulary into merciless striking warfare.
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M’era Luna Turns 26 on the Hildesheim Airfield
M’era Luna returns to the Hildesheim airfield for a twenty-sixth edition anchored by Lacrimosa, Within Temptation, and In Extremo.
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Hulder Turns Its Solo Ritual Into a Duet on ‘Verbolgen’
Hulder’s ‘Verbolgen’ turns a decade of solo ritual into a duo, carrying trilingual pre-Christian themes beyond the scene that shaped…
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Riley Sager’s ‘The Unknown’ Reopens a Vermont Vanishing
Dutton publishes ‘The Unknown’ on August 4th, sending a film production into New Avalon’s century-old Vermont disappearance for Sager’s novel.
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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.
