Category: News
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There are bad movies, there are good movies, and then there are movies that exist in that glorious little radioactive swamp somewhere between the two. Movies that were never going to win awards, never intended to change the course of cinema and probably had absolutely no business being as much fun as they are. Attack…
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Portuguese technical thrash metal band Shadowmare’s third album, Transfiguration, marks a period of significant change for the four-piece. Several lineup shifts have reshaped the band in recent years, bringing with them a different approach to writing and arranging their material. The new songs are shorter and more intense, while the technical edge that has always…
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UK quartet Lifeswallower have unveiled The Trees Hide Their Bodies, the latest preview of their self-titled debut EP, due out on September 1 through Prog On! Recordings. The band began on England’s south coast as a casual project centred around playing 1990s death metal covers. Those rehearsals eventually developed into something considerably more ambitious, with…
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More than forty years after Sorcery first began carving their name into the Swedish death metal underground, the band are preparing to unleash another full-length with The Immaculate Sin, due out on October 1 through Xtreem Music. Sorcery’s history stretches back to the demo Arrival, followed by two further demos and a rehearsal tape before…
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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…