A reckoning long in the making now steps into the open: Malhkebre announced a new collaboration with Meyhnach of Mütiilation, realised through the single “You Failed”, set to be released on 3 April 2026 via Battlesk’rs Productions. Malhkebre will also spread their messages and many more at Underground for...

SoundArt Festival returns in 2026 with a new edition set for 13 and 14 March at Quantic, Bucharest, Romania under the banner “Pax in Natura”, according to Cavalleria Events. Now at its seventh edition, the festival continues its course within a cultural landscape that demands patience, vision and resolve,...

The second-to-last day of February 2026 brought with it “Hulders Ritual” by Slagmaur. After nine years without a full-length, since 2017, when Slagmaur last placed “Thill Smitts Terror” into our playlists, the Norwegians decided the time had come to offer a new album. And what an album it is!...

A new chapter for Dymna Lotva appeared. From Belarus and now relocated to Poland, the group faithful to post-black/doom metal have released a live acoustic video of “Мёртвым Не Баліць” from their album “Зямля пад чорнымі крыламі: Кроў” ...

Watchers of distant stars, listeners to atmospheric black metal, this one is for you. Sweden’s astral standard-bearers Lightlorn have announced their second full-length album, entitled “The Ebb and Flow of Galactic Tides”, which is set for release on 6 March 2026 under Rogue Planet Records. Opening the path is...

France has a great deal to offer when it comes to metal. One of these offerings is the album “Singulier” by Inerte, released on 19 December 2025. I have said it before and I will probably say it again: this country knows its craft, because what emerges from their...

In 2018, Greece saw the rise of a band unafraid to navigate the darker corridors of the human psyche: Calyces. Drawing from heavy prog while venturing into emotional and psychological extremes, the group constructed music where tension, release, and vulnerability coexist in equal measure. Every composition holds portent, every...

Shadows writhe. Poland’s melodic black metal collective Hegeroth just announced the sixth full-length, “Soaked in Rot”, set for release on 25 March 2026 in digital format and jewelcase CD, with pre-orders available via Bandcamp, according to Solid Rock PR. Ahead of the album, the band released the single “Święte...

Some records announce themselves. Others wait, patient and coiled, until the moment arrives when avoidance becomes impossible. “Résonances” belonged to the latter. For months, the name Jours Pâles circled the periphery of my listening, leaving behind fragments, afterimages, unsettled echoes that refused to fade. Each encounter suggested unfinished business,...