Music
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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…
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Shabti Send Servants on ‘Haze, Cacophony, and White Light’
A Portland trio, settled after nearly two decades of lineup change, turns an Egyptian funerary practice into a warning about…
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Fejd Chart a Colder Corner of Norse Myth on ‘Nifelheim’
On their fifth full-length, Sweden’s Fejd set Old Norse cosmology’s coldest primordial realm against a folk metal culture already primed…
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Jotungrav Root Their Debut ‘Elegi’ in Norse Rebirth
Jotungrav’s debut album turns Norse myth into a four-song elegy on loss and rebirth, extending a documented tradition with reach.
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Occult Master Confront Leprosy’s Exile on ‘Occult Master’
The Oulu trio’s debut turns a leprosy narrative into progressive doom, already reaching international metal press ahead of release.
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Unified Confront a ‘Devouring Plague of Mediocrity’
A Bogotá band formed in 2024 answers the city’s brutal death metal inheritance with a debut about ritual, fear and…
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Soulgrind Emerges from Tuonela in ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’
Fifteen years after ‘The Tuoni Pathway,’ Soulgrind returns with a record steeped in Tuonela’s mythology, reaching beyond Finland’s gothic scene.
