Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder (2016)
Article by Lance Viggiano Darkthrone have spent the records FOAD through The Underground Resistance regressing into their pre-Celtic Frost influences. Sensing their customers’ growing unpopularity...
View ArticleVeneror – Percussimus Foedus cum Morte (2013)
Article by Lance Viggiano. Veneror create long, flowing, compositions in the style of Sacramentum which carry a melancholic but sinister emotive pallet through melodious arpeggiated twin guitar...
View ArticleTarnkappe’s Winterwaker CD Delayed
The CD version of Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker has been delayed to around the new year according to a post of Hammerheart Records on Facebook: Due to a mistake with our pressing plant the new TARNKAPPE...
View ArticleSerpent Ascending – Ananku (2016)
Ananku is a term from the Tamil language describing the otherworldly and awesome power of sublime natural places and objects to overwhelm mankind into submission to their will by merely the perception...
View ArticleHeresiarch to Record New Album in 2017
New Zealand war metal band Heresiarch are set to record a new album in February of next year according to a recent post of the band’s in the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Death Ordinance will be...
View ArticleImmortal Recording New Album Next Month
Immortal are recording a new album next month. Demonaz will be the primary songwriting for the first time in almost twenty years. Will the KISS of All Shall Fall continue with Abbath kicked out of the...
View ArticleGorgoroth – Destroyer Reissue Coming March 3rd
Gorgoroth‘s Destroyer is being reissued next March on LP and CD by Soulseller Records according to a post of theirs on the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen, author of the...
View ArticleThe Best Underground Metal of 2016
2016 is over. The funderground mentality continued spreading forth, infesting metal over the last year just the same as it had in the decades past the genre’s artistic high-point in the early...
View ArticleNécropole – Nécropole (2016)
Necropole are a French group who play flowing melodic black metal in the style of Graveland and the Quebecois with riffing heavily influenced by Gorgoroth. Necropole is an anthology CD collecting both...
View ArticleVarg on Killing Euronymous
Varg Vikernes of Burzum posted a video a while back about how he was convicted for the “murder” of Mayhem mastermind Euronymous. Varg states again that Euronymous had long planned to kidnap, torture,...
View ArticleTarnkappe – Winterwaker Physical Copies Out Now
Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker, one of The Best Underground Metal Albums of 2016, was released today on CD and LP from Hammerheart Records. Winterwaker was digitally released late last year and the physical...
View ArticleLa Naranja Metálica Online Radio Show
Spanish language black metal webzine El Negro Metal has started hosting a downloadable monthly online radio show/podcast called La Naranja Metálica, which I have been told is a play on A Clockwork...
View ArticleMarduk & Incantation February 2017 US Tour
Marduk are touring the United States this February to promote their repetitive failed album Frontschwein. Incantation are opening for every American headbanger who hasn’t seen Incantation live yet....
View ArticleKshatriya – Vsque ad Sidera Vsque ad Inferos (2016)
An album judged some of The Best Underground Metal of 2016 but hitherto had yet to receive a dedicated review. Kshatriya‘s Vsque ad Sidera Vsque ad Inferos is a black metal album celebrating the...
View ArticleEnde Announce Emën Etan
French black metal band Ende, who made the mediocre half of Les Puits des Morts split with Sorcier des Glaces last year, have announced their upcoming third album, Emën Etan: As well, the french black...
View ArticleDesecresy Interviewed by Mithra! Templezine
Tommi Gronqvist of Finnish death metal band Desecresy was interviewed by French webzine Mithra! Templezine this week. Tommi explains how Desecresy arose from the ashes of Slugathor, the cohesive...
View ArticleEmperor: Metal for Mordor
The music of Emperor is commonly misconceived by the mainstream metal media and certain YouTube clowns to be merely an atmospheric wall of sound or symphonic black metal orchestration engineered for...
View ArticleInfamous / Winter Blackness Split Symbols Of Scarlet Revenge Released
Underground black metal traditionalists Infamous and Polish black metal act Winter Blackness have released a new split album, Symbols of Scarlet Revenge, on vinyl and cassette tape. To order, write to...
View ArticleDemoncy – Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost Reissued
Demoncy‘s Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost has been quietly reissued by Nuclear War Now! Productions on CD as part of their series of Demoncy reissues. Within the Sylvan Reams of Frost is the most...
View ArticleMerciless to Headline Heavy Metal Cauldron 2017 Festival
Swedish legends Merciless are slated to headline the Heavy Metal Cauldron festival in Helsinki, Finland on October 27th and 28th, 2017. Also booked are speed metal bands Obscure Burial, Terminus, and...
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