Releases
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Verker Finally Completes ‘Twilight… (Røkkr, Act I)’
Eight years after it was teased, Rune Richards completes Verker’s solo debut, setting Norse twilight against Indo-European myth.
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Krallice Return to Ancient Grief on ‘Scour Order’
On ‘Scour Order,’ Krallice sets Aeschylus and Hölderlin inside dense black metal, ahead of their first-ever tour across Europe.
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Dreadnought Step Into ‘Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light’
On their sixth album, the Denver band pairs a Finnish black metal producer with a folk-doom lineage shaped for wider…
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Green Lung Turn London’s Death Trade Into ‘Necropolitan’
Green Lung set ‘Necropolitan’ inside London’s Victorian death trade, carrying British occult rock past the scene that raised it.
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Fluisteraars Chase Woodland Lights in ‘Jacht der Mysteriën’
The Dutch atmospheric black metal band’s sixth album turns Gelderland ghost-light lore into a live performance made to travel.
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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.
