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Celtic Frost’s To Mega Therion turns 30
It might not be as important to the Celtic Frost/Hellhammer legacy as its immediate predecessors, but To Mega Therion is still a fine work of metal 30 years (and four days) after its release. Many...
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Update on Summoning’s upcoming studio album
Summoning has been working on their latest studio album for about a year now. More recently (although admittedly some months ago), they spoke to a writer at Darkview about their plans for the upcoming...
View ArticleAbbath debuts newly recorded song (“Winter Bane”)
Article by Daniel Maarat Addict in denial Abbath Doom Occulta has previewed a new track with Metal Hammer from his solo project, Abbath. Winter Bane “…comes with many of the qualities that are the...
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Demoncy signs to Nuclear War Now! Productions
Demoncy is another one of the site’s favorites, at least if the old Dark Legions Archives are to be believed. After rerecording Empire of the Fallen Angel two years ago, their decision to join up with...
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Leviathan – Scar Sighted (2015)
Review by Corey M USBM (United States Black Metal) as a term encompasses such varying sounds as the primal war chants of Von, the uncompromisingly precise assault of Averse Sefira, and the operatic...
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Album anniversaries – Necromantia – Scarlet Evil Witching Black
It feels like we’re doing a great deal of anniversary mini-features these days, but Scarlet Evil Witching Black, at the very least, is particularly deserving of notice. Released on November 15th,...
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Blackhearts documentary seeks crowdfunding
When we last checked in on Blackhearts, the upcoming documentary was halfway through filming, and the creators were optimistic about a 2015 release. The filming is done, and they have started a...
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Black Vul Destruktor – Beyond Time and Portals of Death (2013)
The Argentinian (Patagonian) city of Neuquén is an important regional industrial and agricultural center, but it’s still in a relatively remote part of the world and probably analogous in some ways to...
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Borknagar sets release date for Winter Thrice
The bastard sons of Molested are back. Borknagar started their career as a melodic ‘viking’ themed black metal band, but gradually (under the influence of its revolving door of vocalists) evolved...
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Black Flames of Blasphemy VI review
Review by “Blackcat” A swirling miasma of ethanol greeted us upon the last Black Flames of Blasphemy, a festival held this past November in the picture perfect setting of Helsinki. The night before...
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Blood Music preparing a expensive Emperor vinyl box set
After two and a half years of preparation, Blood Music is compiling a huge and particularly expensive box set of everything Emperor officially released, and then some. For 700 Euros (currently 744.52...
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Eurynomos – Eye of the Pantheon (2015)
This short EP has been sitting in our review queue for a while, for better or worse. I personally didn’t know what to expect from this band, but I certainly wasn’t expecting Root or After Death style...
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Dark Funeral preparing new studio album for 2016
Around here, Dark Funeral is probably best known for being one of David Parland’s (Necrophobic et al, RIP) projects that later took on a life of its own as a relatively mainstream sort of black metal...
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Orcrypt – Mercenaries of Mordor (2015)
Here’s another recording released by Iron Pegasus Records. Like yesterday’s Eurynomos, it occupies that strange liminal space between traditional heavy metal and black metal, although the existence of...
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Al-Namrood – Diaji Al Joor (2015)
Al-Namrood is so kvlt that they can’t even turn down their projects’ master levels a few decibels. While simply nudging everything down a bit so it doesn’t clip as much might not be the best way to go...
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Revenge – Behold.Total.Rejection (2015)
Review by Daniel McCormick While listening to this album I find myself wondering… What is the value of qualities without purpose? What is the value of all this vague imagery – shackles, skulls,...
View ArticleOld Funeral briefly reunites at Bergen BlekkMetal festival
My own experience with Old Funeral went through three quick stages – excitement as I discovered it was home to musicians who would later go on to play in famous black metal bands, disappointment as I...
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Graveland forms live lineup to play shows in 2016, reissues Dawn of Iron Blades
Second wave black metal band Graveland, long a collaborative project between Rob “Darken” Fudali and session musicians, has formed a lineup to play two live gigs in 2016 at Ragnard Festival in...
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Wolves Among Sheep: History and Ideology of National Socialist Black Metal...
Italian publisher Tsunami Edzioni has released Wolves Among Sheep: History and Ideology of National Socialist Black Metal, a book by Davide Maspero and Max Ribaric detailing the rise of this tributary...
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Misanthropical – Conjuring Thy Infernal Lord
Coming from that early intersection of death metal and black metal that produced bands such as Havohej, Misanthropical aim for awkward riffs like the sinews of a polymeliac beast, combining them with...
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