Black Metal
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Eshtadur Premieres ‘Into the Woods,’ Its Fifth Album’s Opener
Colombian band Eshtadur previews its fifth album, ‘In Darkness All Shadows Gone,’ with the crow-guided video for ‘Into the Woods.’
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Firtan Turn the Annihilating Light Inward on ‘Helios’
The German band’s fifth album binds Greek solar myth to Sanskrit philosophy, and reaches an international underground that hears it…
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Faustian Trade Violence for Horror on ‘Parable of the Sewer’
An Australian death-metal supergroup reaches from Melbourne toward a Scandinavian black metal benchmark on its second full-length album.
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Ambrotos Raise Constantinople’s Fall on ‘Atrocious Chants’
An Athens black metal project places the fall of Constantinople at the center of its most formally ambitious record yet.
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Inferno Descend Into Despair on ‘The Anthropic Sophisms’
Czech avant-black metal’s most severe act returns July 17th on Debemur Morti, dissolving humanity’s pretensions into four tracks of industrial…
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Emptiness Seal a Twelve-Year Rupture on ‘Nowhere Speaks’
Belgian avant-garde extreme metal band Emptiness return July 17th on Season of Mist — closing a loop left open since…
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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…
