White Ward’s Experimental Black Metal Gleams on “False Light” (Review)
The Ukrainian black metal group incorporates blackgaze, jazz, and more on their latest full-length.
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Pestilent Hex’s “Chapter VI : ‘Banishment'” Revives Mid-’90s Black Metal Glory
Finnish black metal duo Pestilent Hex revives a special movement in black metal history, bringing mid-'90s melodic sensibilities to a new decade. Listen to album closer "Chapter VI : 'Banishment'" and read an interview with the band.
From the Back of the Rack #4: Kryptan’s Debut EP Is a Fiery Burst of Black Metal
This self-titled EP, featuring Mattias Norman, ex-Katatonia member, and the drummer of Paranorm, unleashes a short-form torrent of deadly black metal. Read our review and don't miss it.
“Parasight Lost”: The Amenta’s Irresistible Industrial Woe (Early Track Stream)
The Australian industrial extreme metal group offers up a new single from their upcoming album "Revelator."
“Stare Into Death and Be Still”: Ulcerate’s Ultimate Death Metal Magnum Opus (Review)
Here's our full review of the new Ulcerate album, a remarkable turn in style and depth for an already-lauded band, and now a cornerstone of what makes modern death metal so almighty.
Stream Ulcerate’s New Album “Stare Into Death and Be Still”
This beast of an album arrives five days early.
Death’s Simulacrum: Lychgate Wields a Dystopian Hammer on the “Also sprach Futura” EP
We've got the new Lychgate EP streaming in full now before its release later this week; dive into this dizzying four-song masterpiece of organ-infused avant-garde black metal and doom.
Pure Wrath Wields the Purest of Wraths on “Children of the Homeland”
This Indonesian black metal solo outfit's upcoming "The Forlorn Soldier" EP (with featured guest ex-White Ward drummer Yurii Kononov) absolutely rips -- here's one of the three tracks now plus an interview with project mastermind Januaryo Hardy.
The Interdimensional Exploration of Blut aus Nord’s “Hallucinogen”
The surprising new face of the long-standing French weirdo black metal group will turn heads.
Humanity’s “Love Exchange Failure” is White Ward’s Black Metal Canvas
Here's an early premiere of the rapturously morose new album from the Ukrainian black metal quintet -- "Love Exchange Failure" is dreamy and devastating and soaked in saxophone.