Black Metal
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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…
