Category: News
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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…
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Ten tracks, one Finnish groove metal band and enough doom influence to make things considerably slower and nastier than the genre description might initially suggest. Helsinki trio Ill Geared released their debut full-length, To Dust, on August 7, bringing together groove, doom, faster bursts of aggression and a healthy dose of old-school metal attitude. Formed…
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More than three decades after it was first conceived, a song written during early-’90s Gotthard sessions has finally found its way onto a record. Howling At The Moon, originally written by Jgor Gianola and the late Steve Lee, has been rediscovered and reworked by CoreLeoni for their upcoming album Generection. Led by Gotthard founding member…