All things considered, but when you see that Blut Aus Nord from France return with a new album, you stop and listen. And I do mean stop, because their compositions demand a certain degree of attention due to their complexity. It has been this way ever since the 1995...

It is that grim sort of day when the sky presses close and you feel an urge for something steeped in black metal shaped by nature, folklore, bitter reflection and long roads walked alone. It is the kind of mood that points you straight to the Ukrainians from Drudkh,...

The year 2024 officially brought a new voice to the Romanian underground: Kult of Dead. Although some of the compositions had existed for some time, the debut album was released in the autumn, following several live shows that had given audiences a glimpse of the band’s dark and uncompromising...

The Romanian post-black metal project Pâenil Era has released the single “The Braids” under Neuronoir, a label that focuses on black metal, post metal and associated subgenres. Freshly pulled from the depths, at the date of 26 November 2025, “The Braids” examines the looping nature of time and the...

The year 2001 brought a new band to Greece, one focused on thrash metal. Suicidal Angels, for that is who we’re talking about, started their journey with covers of songs they loved, from artists like Slayer and Sepultura, and gradually created their own identity. “Thrash metal hit me hard...

MorbidFest, organised by BestMusic Live Concerts and Metalhead, lands in Bucharest, Romania on 4 December 2025, taking over Quantic for an evening sharpened by five names that need no map to navigate the extreme metal realms: Possessed, Terrorizer, NightFall, Suicidal Angels, and Ater. The call has come and the schedule with...

Remember when we told you to stay vigilant because we were about to reveal who would join GAEREA on 31 January 2026 at Quantic in Bucharest, Romania? Well, the time for unlocking the full line-up has come. Without further ado, GAEREA will be joined by Severoth, Wormgod, and Морок!...

Six tracks. That is all the French group Malepeste needed to reclaim their place in my personal black metal ranking. To be honest, I had been curious about “Ex Nihilo” since this summer, when they released the sampler for “Stupor”, the fourth track on the album, because it promised...

French black metal never stands still, and Jours Pâles is once again crossing into darker ground. The project created by Spellbound will return with “Résonances”, an album where despair, devotion and melody twist into something painfully human. The material...