Enslaved are pleased to announce a month-long, North American co-headline tour with Insomnium. Support on the road will come from Black Anvil.
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.
Mass Worship drummer Fred Forsberg outlines six albums that inspired him in the writing and recording of the band’s absolutely brutal and startling new Century Media release, ‘The Portal Tombs.’
Putting their own dark twist on this savage ’90s-inspired black metal onslaught, Abhoria drops their debut, self-titled album (Prosthetic Records). Read our review here…
Enslaved have revealed details of ‘The Otherworldly Big Band Experience’ an event to celebrate the recent release of their new EP.
Movies about video games have nearly all been terrible. Thank goodness, then, for music. Plenty of metal bands have…
Múspellzheimr remind us on Lunar Apparition and Amor Fati’s re-release of Hyldest til Troldommens Flamme that the frozen north is not just a state, but a state of mind, invoking all that is good an savage about Scandinavian black metal, past and present.
When We Are Forgotten (Napalm Records) represents a honing of Imperium Dekadenz’ craft: atmospheric black metal that marries the emotional response of extreme metal with the intellectual appreciation of progressive metal, while painting a musical picture of anger and loneliness.
Nattarvet, the second full-length from Sweden’s Wormwood, balances multiple styles and influences to deliver what is arguably the best balance of black and folk metal in recent years, available from Sound Pollution records.
With their first anthology, One, new Leeds, UK-based digital black metal label Cult of Osiris have succeeded in demonstrating that new bands from the black metal underground can hold their own against established players.
Void Ritual’s Death is Peace represents the sharp end of grief, the white-hot anger that broils and writhes and lashes out, and yet is tempered by the depressing fact of one’s own inevitable demise.
The Decibel Magazine Tour featuring Norway’s Enslaved, Wolves In The Throne Room, Myrkur, and Khemmis is currently in full swing. Fans packed into Boston’s Royale for an early show.