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A wind rises from the northern wastes once more. Today, 3 June 2026, Mortiis presents “Tundra, Heart of Hell”, the final advance single taken from the forthcoming full-length “Ghosts of Europa”, scheduled for release on 26 June 2026 via Prophecy Productions. The Norwegian artist, who has never adhered to...

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...

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...

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...

The Norwegian blackened death metal band Blodtørst released the second single from upcoming album, scheduled to be launched this fall. Named “Morderske”, the single is described by the band as an intense and melancholic track that deals with loss of faith and its dire consequences for an imagined family deep in a Norwegian fjord in the...

Only a few embers still breathe beneath the ash before the dark swallows them whole. Tonight, 17 May 2026, the Belgian group Amenra and the Romanian band Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut will take the stage at Quantic in Bucharest. Sludge/post-metal. Hardcore. Post-rock. One night and one...