Tag: Heavy Metal
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US black metal duo Stormruler have set December 4th as the release date for their next full-length, Morning Nautical Twilight, which will arrive via Distortion Music Group. The band have also unveiled Chapter II: In The Eye Of Umbria, the first track from the album. If you like your black metal with a hefty dose…
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Portuguese black/death metal outfit Azzaya have released a self-released two-track digital single, Ira / Glory Upon Thee. The first track, Ira, is taken from the band’s upcoming full-length The Apostasy of Michael, offering a taste of where Azzaya are heading with their latest material while keeping the raw aggression of their black/death metal firmly intact.…
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Finnish melodic black metal outfit i Helvete have shared Hiljaisuuteen, the second track taken from their upcoming third album Halla, which arrives on November 6th. The track follows previous single Nälkätalvi, which picked up early attention from Metal Hammer and several underground playlists. According to frontman and guitarist Aleksi Mäkelä, Hiljaisuuteen took considerably longer to…
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For me, black metal begins and ends with two specific high-water marks: Darkthrone’s Transilvanian Hunger and Mayhem’s Freezing Moon. Darkthrone gave us the ultimate hypnotic blizzard, a relentless, lo-fi loop that buries you in three feet of snow and leaves you to freeze. Freezing Moon is a different beast entirely: slow, deliberate, and undeniably evil.…
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Horror-infused black/death metal collective Thy Sanatorium have announced the official video premiere for I Monster, with the video landing on YouTube this Friday, October 2nd. Taken from the band’s self-titled debut LP, I Monster brings together the anonymous, multinational project’s blend of symphonic metal, gothic darkness and straight-up extreme-metal aggression. Speaking about the track, guitarist…
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Yes, so, okay, right. How do I explain this. This isn’t an easy thing to review. Because Endless Dismal Moan and their mastermind, Chaos 9, were not an easy project to listen to. Hell, if you have heard any of his material, you’ll know that this isn’t music in the way you know music to…
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A few things surprised me when I first sat down and listened to Call by Urisk. First off, they are an atmospheric black metal band with the black metal cranked up to eleven. They are emotionally deep, but possess a suffocation factor so high that you feel like you’ve got a plastic bag pulled tight…
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If A Blaze in the Northern Sky was a declaration of war and Under a Funeral Moon built the brick wall around the scene, Transilvanian Hunger is where Darkthrone elevated pure black metal to a state of absolute, unbreakable perfection. It is also, hands down, my favourite album in the entire genre. Released via Peaceville…
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Portuguese solo project SIGILO is set to release its debut full-length, Gloria ad Inferi, on October 23rd via Alma Mater Records, and the second single, As Cosmic Forces Rise, is out now on streaming platforms. The project is the work of a single mastermind who’s been active in the Portuguese underground since 2014, most notably…
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One of the best parts and, also, one of the worst parts about this job is the Bandcamp trawl. Where I go to the place where seemingly every fucking band in existence has uploaded something, type in Black Metal, and then spend at least an hour a day going through every release I can find,…