The Thelema-inspired doom of Caronte, with Schammasch’s ritualistic blackened death, rounded off by the no-nonsense black metal assault of Enthroned: what more could any self-respecting Luciferian occultist ask for a pleasant night? Well done to District 19 for putting together a great show at Netherlands’ P60 Pop Podium.
Soufly have just confirmed an early 2020 North American tour, with Toxic Holocaust and X-Method, supporting their their latest release, Ritual, via Nuclear Blast.
Cold Black Suns (Season of Mist) is an unforgettable piece of occult black metal art, fusing savagery with frozen beauty – but it is also a selection of nine very separate songs that can each stand on their own as near-perfect examples of the craft Belgium’s Enthroned have been honing for a quarter of a century.
Shem Ha Mephorash, the fourth full-length from Sweden’s Mephorash for Shadow Records is neither short, sweet nor easily digestible: rather, it is provocative, engaging and even a little frightening in its intensity. Or put another way, as near to a perfect black metal record as you could hope to encounter.
In this exclusive video clip, metal icon Max Cavalera talks about why it had to be the right time for his son Zyon to join his band.
Courtesy of Nuclear Blast, Ritual, the eleventh studio record from metal legends Soulfly, is a solid, grooving record that incorporates everything we have come to expect from this great band.
Mysterious collective Sleep Token have released a video for their new single “The Way That You Were”. Check out the track here.
Soulfly have released “Evil Empowered” as a taster for their upcoming eleventh studio album Ritual. Check out the new track here.
For those of us who have spent many years worshipping at the bloodstained altar of Blasphemy, these two records via Nuclear War Now! deserve a place in our collection, serving as demonstrations of just how unrestrained and devastating the band are in a live environment.
Unsigned, South Carolina-based electro-pop duo, Glass Mansions will return with their new five-song Ritual EP on April 6th, and it’s damn good. Stream it today via our premiere!
Have Vampire’s Everywhere got the mix of industrial and rock on their latest album Ritual. Read our review here…
We spoke with Matt Ryan Tobin, former Dead and Divine vocalist and mastermind of new Canadian metal band Ritual, who released their debut self-titled album on November 18, 2015.
Toronto’s Riot Fest & Expo has announced the daily schedule of bands playing the festival on September 19 and 20…