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On December 1st, the gates split open — and Darvaza’s We Are Him erupted in full on Black Metal Promotion’s YouTube channel. With their second full-length, Darvaza delivered not an album, but an ordeal — a ritual of fire, filth, and fervor. We Are Him is a seven-chapter descent...
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Vampiric Oath emerges from the depths of Romania’s old woods with a chilling promise — and on November 24th, its first signal was fired in the form of A Doctrine Carved in Decay, the opening single from the forthcoming debut album Doctrines of Withering Nature. That first note descends...
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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...
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Romania’s depressive black metal scene gained a new voice of shadow with Kult of Dead back in 2024. A year later, the band returned with “Orthodoxia”, a full-length that drifts through bleak atmospheres, somber riffs, and a pervasive sense of desolation. Released on 31 October 2025 via Ark49 Records,...
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It’s no secret that whenever I hear melodic black metal, I automatically lean in to see what’s being played. And if it happens to deal with Middle Ages or medieval fiction – well, chances are I’ll listen from start to finish and draw a few conclusions. Sometimes, even write...
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Man, it feels like we’ve slipped into some fake online world where everything looks clean, shiny, and “pro”, where every enthusiast with pocket money and a laptop acts like a visionary and they’re summoning the next black metal revolution. Everything’s the best ever; everything’s cult, like mediocrity got wiped off...
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Time bends when the music is loud enough – and this year again, Metal Gates Festival proved it. One of the most anticipated metal events, organised by Final Step Productions, summoned its audience to Quantic Club, Bucharest, Romania, between 25 and 27 September. Three nights when sound became a...
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It is night, but there is still time for a report. And this report is about how themes of space and philosophy merge in a grand concord, but also about those dark feelings – the kind that strike without warning, when life seems at its sweetest. In other words,...
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It’s a special kind of joy to be among familiar faces, and that joy shone clearly on all who came to see Vulture Industries and Sur Austru on 12 September 2025. Held at Quantic Club in Bucharest, Romania, the evening marked the anniversary of “The Tower”, one of the...
On December 1st, the gates split open — and Darvaza’s We Are Him erupted in full on Black Metal Promotion’s YouTube channel. With their second full-length, Darvaza delivered not an album, but an ordeal — a ritual of fire, filth, and fervor. We Are Him is a seven-chapter descent...
