Black Metal
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Antania Set Hecate’s Epithet to Machine Rhythm in ‘33’
A California duo named for a title of the goddess Hecate replaces guitars with synthesizers on the lead single from…
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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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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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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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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…
