Music
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Grimner Reinscribes Its Own Runes on ‘Stormvingar’
Grimner reinscribes a 2012 song into ‘Stormvingar,’ pairing a returning singer with Swedish folk metal reaching beyond Scandinavia.
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Sigh Turns Nine Paintings of Decay Into ‘Goh-ka’
Sigh anchor ‘Goh-ka’ in Kusōzu, the Buddhist meditation on bodily decay, extending 2022’s ‘Shiki’ into a darker register.
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Green Carnation Concludes Trilogy in ‘The Messiah Complex’
Green Carnation completes its trilogy on September 4th, carrying Rimbaud’s Ophelia and Norway’s progressive metal into Europe.
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Enslaved Locate the Center of Everything on ‘Mið’
Norway’s Enslaved return with ‘Mið,’ a seventeenth album built on Old Norse cosmology and guest voices from Sápmi and the…
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Kamelot Turns a Fallen Cathedral Into ‘Dark Asylum’
Kamelot’s fourteenth album, ‘Dark Asylum,’ pairs a fictional Victorian asylum with real reform history and a tradition read well beyond…
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Self-Deceiver Exchanges the River Styx for ‘Nihil’
Bogotá’s Self-Deceiver follows 2022’s ‘Across the Styx’ with ‘Nihil,’ a record that opens on the Norse god Baldr’s fatal dream.
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Hesperia Weaves the Forgotten Lore of Marche Into ‘Picenum’
Solo act Hesperia weaves his late grandmother’s voice into ‘Picenum,’ an extreme metal reckoning with Marche’s cursed lords and witches.
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Naïwyn’s Azgaal Summons a Punishing Angel in ‘Divine Hitman’
France’s Azgaal channels a punishing angel from Jewish mysticism into ‘Divine Hitman,’ extending one man’s occult vision to a new…
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Teratum Wage ‘Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare’ From Sweden
The Swedish quartet’s debut EP inherits Beastiality’s black-thrash violence while reaching for a far older vocabulary of spiritual combat.
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Agonanist Sets ‘The Spirit of Gravity’ to Microtones
Six years after his debut, Tyler Henthorn splits Nietzsche’s demon of inherited weight into three tunings for a scattered dissonant…
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Fen Returns to Roots on ‘Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth’
Fen’s eighth album opens a two-album cycle rooted in East Anglia’s drained fens, carrying atmospheric black metal beyond its native…
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On ‘Maanaääri,’ Noumena Reckons with Finland’s Great Wrath
Noumena’s seventh album sets Finland’s Great Wrath to melody, testing what a specific national wound demands of a genre built…
