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Fascinating metal innovators DORDEDUH have unveiled a new live video for the track Timpul întâilor, which was recorded during their show at the prestigious ProgPower Europe festival at the Sjiwa in Baarlo, the Netherlands in 2023. While the Romanians were playing, their compatriot and renowned artist Costin Chioreanu created a live painting at the venue,...

The modern metal band Reverse the Moment from Oradea returns with a new single: Hell is a Familiar Place, a track that combines heavy riffs, atmospheric synthwave, and a sound filled with nostalgia drawn from the 1980s. The song explores the theme of emotional collapse and the strength it...

Romanian post-metal solo project Vaarcloc, led by Erwin Weber, has just unveiled “Ivoa”, the first single from the forthcoming debut full-length “Contururi”. The track is now streaming on all major platforms and via Neuronoir’s official YouTube channel. The full album lands on 3 July 2025, with a digital release...

Two days in advance of its release, Austere streams the new full-length The Stillness of Dissolution exclusively via the specialist YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion today, June 4th. The fifth album of the Australian black metal duo has been chalked up for hitting stores on June 6th. About the new album With their fifth album...

Romanian black metal band Vokodlok releases the official music video for Warzone, a track taken from the band’s second full-length album The Egregious Being, released on March 14th. Hearing the call of damnation, four rebellious spirits, GhiauR, Strigoi, Blestemat and Grosan, influenced by unholy music, joined the dark forces...

Old Man’s Child, the project of longtime ex-Dimmu Borgir guitarist Galder, has been revealed as the first headliner of next year’s edition of Fortress Festival. This UK exclusive performance will be the band’s first in the UK since the 1990s. Fortress Festival will take place on May 30th-31st 2026 at Scarborough Spa...

Romanian solo project Sylvanshine has released its debut full-length album “The Offering” – an emotionally charged dive into blackgaze, post-rock and doom metal. Released on 23 May 2025 via Neuronoir and spearheaded by Bucharest-based musician Ion Ureche, the record is available now on CD, cassette and all major streaming platforms. Blackgaze...

Latvia’s Overcast Rain released their third full-length album, “Black Death”, via Brutal Records, on 11 April 2025 – and it hits like a slab of concrete to the chest. The record lurches forward with suffocating riffs and pitch-black mood, refining their blend of dark metal into something far colder,...

Death metal band Retching, hailing from the United States has announced the release of their debut album. Titled Charming the Decomposed, the eight track album will drop on August 22nd, via Transcending Obscurity Records. On only their debut release, Retching have found a way to present the gore-soaked, rotten, old school-inclined...