Category: Music
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Extreme metal unit YHWH have released Heavenly Blasphemies, the third single taken from their upcoming EP Baghavat. Where the previous two singles leaned heavily on speed and direct confrontation, Heavenly Blasphemies takes a slower, more ceremonial approach. The emphasis shifts from outright aggression to a suffocating, liturgical atmosphere, with savage riffs giving way to heavier,…
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Belgian ritualists Wyatt E. and UK avant-garde doom outfit Five The Hierophant are dragging their shared obsession with heavy, hypnotic noise back across Europe for another tour. The two bands previously joined forces for the Atonia project at Roadburn before hitting the road together in 2022, so this isn’t their first trip into the darkness…
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Chicago quartet Selenoplexia are back with their second full-length, Beneath the Lunar Tyrant, throwing their brand of progressive blackened death metal straight into full-blown concept album territory. Recorded in the Pocono Mountains with Colin Marston, the 37-minute record unfolds across a prologue and five chapters following a young hero’s battle against an evil sorcerer named…
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If your idea of a good time involves painting your face, wandering into the woods, and plucking an ancient stringed instrument while screaming about Druids, Fir Bolg have you covered. The band are set to unleash their new album, Triskelion, on November 27 via Schwarzdorn Production. The thirteen-track album draws on Celtic mythology, pagan rituals…
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There are questions in life that demand answers. Why are we here? Is there a God? What would a nuclear explosion sound like if it was localised in your living room? And where I have always been able to answer those first two questions (beer and no, in case you were wondering) I have never…
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Stockholm melodic black/death metal outfit Hyperion have announced their long-awaited second album, Elysia, which is set for release on November 6 via Willowtip Records. Arriving a full decade after their 2016 debut Seraphical Euphony, the album sees the Swedish group returning with a sound built around classic Scandinavian black metal and Swedish melodeath, with dense…
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Finnish-Mexican melodic death metal outfit Ulthima have released the title track from their upcoming second album, Midnight’s Call, ahead of its release on November 27. Originally formed in Mexico before relocating to Helsinki to rebuild the lineup, the band follow up their 2021 debut Symphony of the Night with a track that goes straight for…
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Finnish gothic metal outfit Horizon of Aeons have released their new single Yksi Ainoa Ikkuna, putting a heavy dark-metal spin on a track made famous by Finnish rautalanka icons Agents. Formed earlier this year by musicians from the Finnish underground, the band usually deal in heavy, gloomy material with a fixation on the passage of…
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Bogotá brutal death metal outfit Decarabion have announced their second full-length album, Desacralization, which is set for release on December 11, 2026 via Comatose Music. Active since 2018, the Colombian band follow up their 2020 debut Bastard Son Of Divinity and 2023’s Hidden In Delirium, Reality Revealed EP with a ten-track blast of brutally fast…
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Finnish solo project Wooden Shadow have released their new single Blackened Roses Fall, the latest track from their upcoming second album Silverlake, which arrives on November 19, 2026 via Inverse Records. Based in Ylöjärvi since 2020, Wooden Shadow is the work of Jeremia Ponto, who handles the writing and instrumentation himself. The project combines atmospheric…