Any black metal fans fortunate enough to be in possession of a ticket for Damnation Festival in Leeds next month is in for a scorched earth treat ...
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Krysthla are a band who have been making a name for themselves on the metal underground for a number of years now both with their recorded output (with ...
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Everybody like the stories of success and metalheads aren’t the exception here: it’s always great when the band got famous all over the world after long, hard work ...
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Anything that emerges from the dark corridors of Goathorned Productions is likely to be a hellish proposition even for the most committed black metal follower. Serpens Luminis certainly ...
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Since 2010 Germans Kadavar regularly release an album every two years and in some mysterious way still didn’t disappointed. Their previous album Rough Times was released in 2017 ...
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Ascending from Italy, Circle of Witches deliver their third full-length album, Natural Born Sinners. Clocking in at around 48 minutes, this album is chocked full of heavy metal ...
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Heavy, Power and almost forgotten Speed Metal miraculously exist even nowadays. Not so bright as it was, let’s say, 30 years ago, but this genre can be hardly ...
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I can hardly share the joy of fans wanted to see this band because I’m not a big Dimmu Borgir fan at all. With this I can’t deny that ...
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If Mortem sound like all your Black Metal nightmares coming together into one stupendous ball of sonic filth and fury then perhaps that’s not altogether surprising. Certainly not ...
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Since it was announced that Mgla will return to Bucharest following the performance from Rockstad Extreme fest from August, the black metal fans were excited about these news. The Polish ...
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Sinner, which can be considered nowadays as Mat Sinner’s solo project, plays Teutonic Heavy Metal since 1980. The band released 18 albums, changed the line-up countless times and ...
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September, Friday, 13. Lviv, Rotting Christ, FEST Republic. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so. I think it’s super great! Before the show there were some rumors ...
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Earlier this year, I covered Necrosexual’s most recent EP, and while I was a bit skeptical about the antics and layout, it proved to be worthwhile. Recently, I ...
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A bit like Ironguard, Alcotopia are a sort of mix of power and thrash. But Alcotopia has a dirtier, angrier thrash sound, with more emphasis on a darker ...
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When I was asked to do this review I was initially afraid that I wouldn’t be able to because of how insipid of an impression the music would ...
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The sounds of traditional heavy metal and doom will never die and Beastmaker, the other band from Haunt mainman Trevor Church know that as they combine both with ...
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According to metal-archives.com there are eight bands named Kurgan. I wasn’t surprised to see the Ukrainian and Polish bands with such name because this word is very familiar to them. ...
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RidingEasy Records has been delivering some great stuff this year between Zig-Zags, Bus and my latest discovery Hell Fire. The band has been around for about a decade, ...
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Black metal bands that claim their misanthropy loudly and proudly can be silly, but try to find one with as much ambition as Decision to Hate on that ...
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All pictures by: Vivien Varga Next year will mark Bloodstock’s 20th anniversary. Anyone seeking affirmation as to its pre-eminent place among Europe’s elite open air metal festivals only ...
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