black metal

  • Détresse

    Détresse dropped debut album

    Born out of a cross-continental collision between Austria and Québec, the Détresse trio delivered their debut full-length Pessimismes on May 17th via Vendetta Records, and it’s every bit as crushing, bleak and honest as the title suggests. This isn’t black metal with flowery post- prefixes or ambient escapism, it’s...
  • Empeiria

    Empeiria dropped debut album

    German black metal band Empeiria released their debut album on June 6th. Titled The Ascent: Szenen der Katharsis, the impressive seven track full-length came out via Vendetta Records. To give a taste of what’s o come, the band dropped the single IV on May 16th. Empeiria (meaning “the un-tangible, the...
  • Austere duo

    Austere streams new album

    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...
  • Vokodlok

    Vokodlok drops a new video

    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...
  • Lloth

    Lloth dropped second album

    The flames of Hellenic black metal burn brighter than ever as Lloth unleashed their long-awaited second full-length opus! Thus, Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions), came out on May 9th, via Theogonia Records. This release cements Lloth’s place as a defining force in the Hellenic black/death metal pantheon, a thunderous tribute...
  • Trivax

    ALBUM REVIEW: “The Great Satan” by Trivax

    Trivax waste no time. Less than two years after “Eloah Burns Out” raised the band’s stock from “one to watch” to “serious contender”, they’ve returned with “The Great Satan” – a tightly wound 43-minute black metal statement that bites harder the deeper you dig. Released on 30 May 2025...
  • Genune

    Genune dropped a new album

    Romanian black metal band Genune released their third full-length album on May 17th. Titled Infinite Presence, the six track record came out via Belgian label Consouling Sounds. About the band Originally formed in 2012, Genune found its true beginning with the release of its debut album, Cern Sol, in...
  • Funeral Baptism

    Funeral Baptism announces new album

    Romanian black metal act Funeral Baptism is proud to announce that their long-awaited second full-length album, In Solitudine, will be officially released on May 30th, 2025, through Loud Rage Music. Coinciding with this announcement, the band unveils a second single, Lex Talionis… It’s a ferocious, unrelenting track that pushes deeper into...
  • The Ruins of Beverast soon at Quantic

    The Ruins of Beverast is a German atmospheric black and doom metal band formed by Alexander von Meilenwald in 2003, following the disbandment of his previous band, Nagelfar. As the sole member for much of the project’s history, Meilenwald crafts a unique sound that blends black metal’s raw intensity...