Not every transformation arrives with noise behind it. And the members of the German black metal band Akantophis stand as proof of this. One year after the release of the album “Erneuerung” on 14 April 2025, the group returned with a lyric video for the track “Renewal”. Brought to...

Few words have travelled through history as stubbornly as blasphemy. Kingdoms have risen and fallen around it. Men have been exiled, imprisoned, and executed for it. Entire books have been burned because of it. Yet for all the fear the word once inspired, its meaning remains remarkably simple: the...

The soil has already been turned. Now, the members of Ill Tidings stand ready to reveal what has taken root beneath it. The Austrian black metallers will release their third full-length album, “Seeds of True Rebirth”, on 26 June 2026 via Vendetta Records, according to Against PR.  Scheduled for...

While men prefer to think the ground beneath their boots is steady, the earth keeps an older rage hidden far below the crust. For the members of Fen that seething core beneath the stone of the world mirrors the silence and unrest buried deep within man himself. Three years after the...

France, it is time for some black and death metal. It is time for Misþyrming, Owls Woods Graves, Profanation, and Gorrch. On 23 October 2026, the walls of O’Sullivans Backstage by the Mill in Paris shall tremble beneath the weight of the event, brought forth by Heavy Duty Booking and...

There are records one encounters and promptly leaves behind, like forgotten signposts beside a road travelled only once. A single listen suffices, sometimes two. Then there are others that refuse such an easy departure. Long after the music falls silent, fragments remain behind, resurfacing at inconvenient hours and drawing...

The Circle of the Elect, a black metal collective from Ukraine, debuted on 22 May 2026 with their first collection of compositions. Entitled “Kaoskarma”, the five-track record came straight through the sleeves of Archaic Sound, according to the members of the band. Between Ruin and Renewal The album contains...

Antonio Sanna, the creative mind behind the black metal project Downfall of Nur, returned on 22 May 2026 with a new album. Entitled “And the Firmament Will Burn to Quench the Pain of This Earth”, the full-length features seven tracks and has been released through Avantgarde Music, according to the...

Sometimes, the magic lies in trying to tell a story that has earned its place in this world, or perhaps one that clawed its way into existence because silence could no longer contain it. And this truth is known well by Amenra and Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a...