Black Metal
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Sojourner Return Across Two Hemispheres on ‘Gateways’
Atmospheric black metal band Sojourner return July 10th on Avantgarde, a trans-hemispheric comeback that folds a new voice into an…
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Mortem Rouse Norway’s Oldest Darkness on ‘Mørketid’
One of Norway’s earliest black metal bands answers its near-mythic 1989 demo with a second album that travels far beyond…
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Forsmán Set Iceland Burning on ‘Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur’
A debut full-length from a Kópavogur quartet carries Iceland’s old promise of fire and flood to an underground far beyond…
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Soulburn Weigh Extinction on ‘Quantifying Cosmic Doom’
The Dutch death-doom band returns on Testimony Records with a fifth album that exchanges visceral horror for deep galactic time…
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Hilde Nymoen’s ‘Vintervolve’ Collects Tulus’s Verse in Full
‘Vintervolve’ from Harg Forlag Publishing gathers Hildr Nymoen’s complete lyric work for Tulus, translating thirty years of Norwegian dark verse…
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Mork Raises a Monument to Black Metal Severity on ‘Monolitt’
Nine tracks from Halden’s Thomas Eriksen arrive June 19th on Peaceville Records — a principled act of refusal against the…
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Behemoth Carve Their Name Again on ‘I, Scvlptor’
Behemoth return September 4th on Massacre Records, their Gdańsk blackened death forged anew — eight unreleased tracks that look both…
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Kampfar Storms Ciudad Frecuencia in Medellín This May
Thirty years of Norwegian pagan darkness reach Colombia for the first time as Kampfar performs at Medellín’s Ciudad Frecuencia.
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Opera IX Sharpens Its Ancient Poison on ‘Veneficium’
‘Veneficium’ sees Opera IX anchor occult black metal in a precise historical concept, giving this lineup its most purposeful studio…
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Hilde Nymoen’s ‘Syner’ Documents Khold’s Norwegian Verse
Harg Forlag Publishing releases ‘Syner,’ collecting all of Khold’s lyric poetry from Hildr Nymoen, with English translations and Norse folklore…
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Stars Lead the Dead to ‘Vyraj’ in Dymna Lotva’s ‘Zory’
Belarusian post-black metal act Dymna Lotva opens ‘Vyraj’ with a song written for souls in exile — and those who…
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Enslaved Opens Unholy Halloween at Oslo Spektrum in October
The Haugesund progressive black metal veterans bring their 35-year argument to Oslo Spektrum on October 31, alongside Satyricon and Dimmu…
