Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir have announced the “In League With Satan,” occurring next fall with special guest Dark Funeral.
Symphonic deathcore crew She Must Burn deliver a devilishly savage treat on their new album, ‘Umbra Mortis’ (Grey Rock Music).
BRYMIR lead singer Viktor Storm Gullichsen joins us for a Stereo Six, in which he outlines six essential albums that were inspirational when writing/recording the new...
Defacing God’s new slice of symphonic extreme metal, ‘The Resurrection of Lilith,’ is the perfect example of how to blend dramatic, magical storytelling with epic, grandiose...
15,000 metal fans endured a heatwave to celebrate all that is great about metal as Bloodstock Open Air returned!
In the first of our preview features, here is our pick of the must-see main stage bands for Bloodstock 2022.
Old Castles deliver ‘Sarcophagical Lament of the Past’ via Inferna Profundus Records; raw black metal the way it should be – straight out of the early ’90s.
Vampirism, pretentiousness and grim black metal. Vampirska's Apparitions Frozen in Chimera Twilight is a glorious combination of all three.
Manchester blackened death metal band Necronautical return with their epic fourth album 'Slain In The Spirit'. Read our review here.
I have had many reasons to be grateful to Eisenwald in 2020. I’ve folksy grooved to Osi and The Jupiter, railed with black metal fury at...
Bloodstock organisers have confirmed that metal legends Mercyful Fate are the final headliner for the 2021 weekend and will be joined by Dimmu Borgir.
Cosmic World Mother has been the hardest record to wrap my head around in quite some time. There are days when the late-1990s fervour of dense,...
Polish black metal legends Arkona have been infecting underground airwaves with frigid, uncompromising evil across six full-length albums, culminating in their seventh, Age of Capricorn, now...
The reissue of Stab Wounds by Germany's Dark Fortress is not only a worthy addition to any black metal library, this remastered version is a great...
Unus (Season of Mist), the sixth full-length album by Canadian group Necronomicon is a powerful piece of Lovecraftian death metal, but its impact is lessened by...
Portland-based photographer Peter Beste’s latest book release, Defenders of the Faith (Sacred Bones), is less a photo essay and more an anthropological investigation, interrogating that staple...
If UK black metal built around the sparing, yet tasteful application of keyboards over fairly complex guitar passages with occasional clean, operatic vocal passages is your...
Kali Yuga Crown (Werewolf Records), from Australia’s Advent Sorrow, combines misanthropic fury and crushing despair in guitar-led compositions topped off with subtle yet effective keyboard elements...
With just a couple of days to go, Bloodstock Open Air organisers have issued a statement regarding the late news that Sunday special guests Dimmu Borgir...
Due via Australis Records, Illvsio Machina, the latest EP from Chilean symphonic black metal outfit Antartandes, is over-the-top, brash and unapologetic in its industrial, post-apocalyptic fury.
To discuss their debut record Celestial Mechanics, out now via Century Media, in addition to questions about some of his awesome tattoos, we spoke with Tronos...
An unmistakably Kampfar record, Ofidians Manifest (available from Indie Recordings) blends historic black metal tropes with contemporary care to composition and arrangement to craft one of...
1349’s fast, heavy and uncompromising “aural hellfire” approach to Norwegian Black Metal returns on a state-sponsored tribute to the work of artist Edvard Munch, Dødskamp, released...
In this exclusive video clip, Nailed To Obscurity go hunting for extreme metal albums and discuss two of their finds Gothic by Paradise Lost and Death...
Bloodstock organisers have announced four new acts for the 2019 line-up including thrashers Anthrax. Find out more here.
Day 2 of Midgardsblot hit and, as soon as the gate opened, we hit up Metal Yoga, an epic viking battle, and lots of great bands...