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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 will take place at Quantic club, on April 23-24-25, 2026, in Bucharest- Romania. Good news, and bad news as well....
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....
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...
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 announces not only new bands on the festival’s bill, but also adds an extra date for extra madness, so be ready...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...