Death Metal
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On ‘Maanaääri,’ Noumena Reckons with Finland’s Great Wrath
Noumena’s seventh album sets Finland’s Great Wrath to melody, testing what a specific national wound demands of a genre built…
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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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Unified Confront a ‘Devouring Plague of Mediocrity’
A Bogotá band formed in 2024 answers the city’s brutal death metal inheritance with a debut about ritual, fear and…
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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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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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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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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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Insomnium Ready Their Tenth Album for the ‘Netherworlds’
Finland’s Insomnium follow ‘Anno 1696’ with ‘Netherworlds,’ produced by Jens Bogren, reaching a metal scene already fluent in Finnish melancholy.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Caelestia Reckon With the Dead on ‘Revelations In Black’
Caelestia binds Gothenburg melody to American death metal precision, carrying literature and wartime history to a global underground.
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Sentenced and the Finnish Craft of a Chosen Farewell
The band from Muhos turned its own dissolution into a finished work, closing a sixteen-year account on melody, grief, and…
