Review: Dea Artio ”Alpenwut” [Running Wild Productions]
Turmoil in the Northern Limestone Alps… I remember writing about how Dea Artio was a project brimming with lush, atmospheric soundscapes atop a black metallic...
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Review: DEUS SABAOTH – Distortion of Lies [Paragon Records]
I wasn’t familiar with Deus Sabaoth before this album, which is probably why Distortion of Lies ended up being a pleasant surprise. The Ukrainian project...
Interview: VARMIA
Poland’s VARMIA have never approached black metal as simple songwriting. With their new album, the band push deeper into a world where ritual, ancestry, landscape...
Review: Svar “In the Land Called Night” [Via Nocturna]
At the end of 2024, the Polish one-man black metal project Svar released its debut full-length album In the Land Called Night through the local...
Interview: laCasta
Italy’s laCasta continue to push their sound deeper into hostile and ritualistic territory with OLIBANVM, a record where black metal atmosphere, crust urgency, and symbolic...
Interview: DEUS SABAOTH
It hasn’t been long since their debut, but DEUS SABAOTH have already moved forward with Distortion of Lies. I spoke with them about how the...
Interview: Sainte Obyana du Froid
There’s something very self-contained about The Purest Ending. Written, recorded and shaped almost entirely by one person, it comes across less as a traditional album...
Underground For The Masses III Confirms: Varathron, Decline of the I, Temple Of Baal & Umbra Conscientia. Sargeist & Wiccan Rede Cancelled
Underground For The Masses III will take place at Quantic club, on April 23-24-25, 2026, in Bucharest- Romania. Good news, and bad news as well....
Review: Winter’s Breath “Eine Düstre Winternacht” [Running Wild Productions]
Honing a familiar craft… You probably should not expect the most original, genre-bending, unique record when you’re about to deep-dive into a Winter’s Breath release....
Review: Intra Nigrum “Logos” [Putrid Cult]
In the final days of last autumn, the Polish one-man band Intra Nigrum, which plays atmospheric depressive black metal with ambient elements, independently released its...
Interview with Cineastre
Cineastre emerged from the heart of the Lower Saxonian woodlands. Since then, their aim has been to capture the quiet poetry of moonlit passages, the...
Underground For The Masses III Confirms: Sargeist, Naglfar, Nazghor, Antikvlt, Ritualization & More
Underground For The Masses announces not only new bands on the festival’s bill, but also adds an extra date for extra madness, so be ready...
WORM sign to Century Media, Release Short Film / Title Track, new album February 2026
Worm has incessantly built upon their sonic palette of ‘Necromantic Black Doom’, with roots in nearly every worthy corner of extreme metal’s history – from the...
ENTHRONED Release New Single “Ashen Advocacy”
With over three decades shaping the darkened depths of European black metal, ENTHRONED return with “Ashen Advocacy,” the third single from their forthcoming twelfth full-length, Ashspawn. Conceived as...
Interview with Mirai of SIGH
Revisiting Infidel Art for its latest reissue, Sigh reflects on the album’s experiments, its missteps, and the moments that still resonate. Their latest album, I...
Review: Vrag – Rendületlenül [Filosofem Records]
A year ago, Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Roland Neubauer returned with his black metal project Vrag, releasing the fourth full-length album Rendületlenül through the local label Filosofem...
Splendidula Renew Deal With Argonauta Records For Upcoming Album
Argonauta Records is proud to announce that Belgian atmospheric black and doom collective Splendidula have renewed their signing with the label for the release of their highly...
Review: 1914 “Viribus Unitis” [Napalm Records]
Ukrainians 1914 release their fourth album and this fact commands respect if not delight. For almost four years this country heroically fights against russian hordes,...
MAYHEM Announce “Liturgy of Death” Album & Release “Weep for Nothing” Video
The most influential black metal band of all time is back with their 7th studio album Liturgy of Death. With this new opus, Mayhem reaffirm their status as the...
VARMIA Return With “Zwykli Zmarli” Digital Single/Music Video
Released over the All Saints Day/All Souls Day weekend, Black Metal group VARMIA return with “Zwykli Zmarli” (translated as “ordinary dead”), their first new music...