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Serpent Ascending – Hyperborean Folklore (2022)
While still retaining some of the aesthetic elements of 2016’s sleeper-hit Aṇaṅku, Serpent Ascending has adopted a flowing form of riffing on this latest album comparable to some Norwegian black...
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Sammath Premieres “Reichswald” From Grebbeberg
Necrotic war metal and black metal hybrid band Sammath bring inner melody to battering relentless martial metal, and now premiere the first track from their latest album, Grebbeberg: Let us revisit...
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Xibalba – Itzalan (2021)
Picking up in the divide between funderground wargrinding and melodic but insipid mainstream black metal, Xibalba take the style they unleashed on their “Demo 2010” and push it further with racing...
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Sammath Releases Preview of “Tot De Laatste Granaat” from Grebbeberg
Skull-smashing Dutch war metal and black metal hybrid Sammath unveils the second track from its latest album, Grebbeberg, with a look into the dark spirit of humans engaged in conflict against...
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Sadistic Metal Reviews: Death By Group Participation Issue
We should talk about dark organization in metal: whenever humans set up something thriving, it dies from within because individuals defer to the will of the herd, and also, under cover of that,...
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Sammath Grebbeberg Publishes on June 16, 2023
Grinding martial black metal band Sammath publish their seventh album, Grebbeberg, on June 16th of this year via Hammerheart Records. The band has already released two tracks from the album, one of...
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Sacramentum Launches US Tour for 2023
Back when Dissection and Sentenced were the only bands to pick up on the hybrid of speed metal and death metal that Merciless pioneered and then add more Iron Maiden harmonized guitars and melody,...
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Sammath Streams Grebbeberg
Raging martial black metal band Sammath has streamed its latest album, Grebbeberg, for a new generation of fans to appreciate the approach that combines old school dynamics with timeless melody to...
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Sammath Posts Video For “Last Gasp of the Dying” From Grebbeberg
The review queue this year has shifted, being both worse than ever before and having a higher number of promising options, which means that Sammath faces an underground which is gathering strength,...
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Sammath Introduces Worldwide Texas Tour 2024
Searing martial black metal band Sammath introduced its “Texas is the Reason” Worldwide Texas Tour today, plotting dates across Texas early next year to terrify and delight audiences with its brand of...
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Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (2023)
Sneaking out this EP before their next album, Demoncy cover old ground and do so in a way that will please Demoncy fanatics, deliver few surprises, and leave people hungry for more. These three songs...
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Graveland Introduces Covers Album and New Album
Ancient necrotic evil warband Graveland plans to release two new works, a compilation with covers and a full album, following its issue of a wooden box edition of Thousand Swords which seems to have...
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Varg Vikernes Pens Book About Black Metal History
Notable Burzum composer, Mayhem member, church burner, and antagonist of all things dualist/Abrahamist Varg Vikernes released his most recent effort, a 150-page history of the black metal experience...
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Varg Vikernes – To Hell and Back Again: My Black Metal Story (2024)
To Hell and Back Again: My Black Metal Story (Norway 1991-1993) by Varg Vikernes 150 pages, Ancestral Cult Productions, $13 This short book serves as a teaser for a longer work, since most Burzum fans...
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Varg Vikernes Releases Second Volume of Burzum Saga My Childhood Story
As predicted, Mr Vikernes returns with another segment of the saga of his introduction to metal and his unique take on the genre that became one of the pillars of black metal, which increasingly looks...
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Sammath in the Midst of Worldwide Texas Tour
Hybrid death, war, and black metal band Sammath is currently raging across Texas as part of its worldwide Texas tour. Clubs are 21+ but seem perfect for intense underground shows.
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Haserot, Sacrocurse, Trenchant, and Sammath Live in Houston (February 24, 2024)
Some shows define an era, and the assault of Sammath on Texas revealed where underground metal is going now: doubling down on what made it great, injecting new creativity, and fleeing from the dual...
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Unholy Craft – Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig (2024)
Unholy Craft builds in the style of later Darkthrone with the pacing of Mayhem, delivering an enjoyable journey through melody meeting noise and pummeling d-beats and blast beats, which although...
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What Is Art?
Writing about a dead genre can be exhausting. You search through ten thousand bands looking for the few that grasp what the genre was always about — its newer incarnations are meaningless — and...
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