Category: News
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There are plenty of things you don’t want to find lurking in the back of a dive bar. A body, perhaps. A particularly angry rat. Maybe a bloke who has been drinking there since 1987 and now considers the place his sovereign territory. An old karaoke machine probably wouldn’t make the list. Until it starts…
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French groove death metal outfit Sickmind have unveiled New God, the first single and official video from their forthcoming full-length album Babel Tower, due out on October 9. Formerly known as Silicium, Sickmind operate in a dark and dystopian corner of groove death metal, with their music built around themes of collapse, desolation and a…
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The best thing about running the Black Metal Archives, besides not having a boss, is that it helps me keep ahead of the curve when it comes to the underground metal/music scene. Over the past year and nine-ish months, I have been lucky enough to build a network that means I, usually, know what’s going…
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Blackment have released Pulsar, the final single from their forthcoming second studio album Pandemonium Portrait, due out on September 18. The song grew from what vocalist Sami Vuorenheimo describes as a minor existential crisis. Given a piece of music by Allan to write lyrics for, Vuorenheimo listened to it repeatedly with his eyes closed, concentrating…
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Red Code have released Toxic Karma, the latest single and official video from their forthcoming EP Traces of Unease and Discomfort, Pt. 1, due out on September 25 through Epictronic. The song turns its attention inward, exploring the destructive patterns people create for themselves and the difficult process of breaking away from them. Fear, frustration…
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Phlefonyaar are set to return with Encyclopaedia Sociopathica, their first full-length album since 2020’s We Rest When The Crows Feast, bringing together doom, death, drone and industrial sludge across their latest collection of dark and abrasive material. The duo of Jim Males and Paul March have been developing Phlefonyaar’s particular brand of heavy music since…
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A Secret Revealed have unveiled Disheartened, the first single from their upcoming fourth full-length, The Ruin I Summoned Forth, with Der Weg einer Freiheit vocalist Nikita Kamprad joining the Würzburg post-metal quintet on the track. Due out on October 16 through Lifeforce Records, the eight-track album continues the band’s heavy and atmospheric approach while bringing…
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The collaboration between Chilean metal band Pronoias and Finnish vocalist Nitte Valo began with a walk through a forest and, rather unexpectedly, a little help from the band’s audience. The result is We Are The Same, a new single featuring Valo that was released on August 5 and performed live that same day in Helsinki.…
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There are plenty of ways to make a heavy metal video about war, but Crimson Day have gone straight to the source material for War Machine, combining the track’s old-school heavy metal influence with authentic World War II footage of aerial combat between Allied and Axis forces. Taken from the Finnish band’s album Dark Dimension,…
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Before Kharon became the album released last year, its songs existed in a much rougher form. The Medea Project have now gone back to those early demos, rehearsal recordings and writing sessions for Kharon: Forbearance. Those recordings capture a more brutal and cavernous incarnation of the material, preserving the sound of the band while the…