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Norway’s avant-garde black metal innovators, Borknagar, announce a very special 25th Anniversary reissue of their pioneering self-titled debut album Borknagar, out for the first time ever worldwide via the band’s longtime label partner Century Media Records on November 12.
Borknagar founder and mastermind Øystein G. Brun comments on this special re-release as follows: “Throughout the years I have received countless requests for a re-release of this album…but because this album represents such
At the peak of the pandemic lockdown last year, Behemoth set the world on fire when they took over an abandoned church in rural Poland, bringing their truly spectacular production for a worldwide streaming event, which was lauded by rock media as one of the very best livestream events to date.
After just over a year since the show’s premiere, ‘In Absentia Dei returns in a range of deluxe formats for fans to relive the drama that took place on that fateful night in 2020
British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH will release their 13th studio album, "Existence Is Futile", on October 22. The official music video for the disc's second single, "Necromantic Fantasies", can be seen below.
Directed by Vicente Cordero, this clip was shot back to back with his previous work for the band, the horribly apocalyptic "Crawling King Chaos", though both are remarkably contrasting.
Blacklight Media Records / Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Demiser to its worldwide roster!
Formed in 2018 out of the primordial ooze of the South Carolina metal scene, Demiser are veritable heavy metal heroes. With influences drawing from first wave black metal and 80s thrash alongside a healthy dose of NWOBHM, Demiser have quickly established a sound that is wholly their own.
1. Candlemass - Black As Time (6:47)
2. Wheel - At Night They Came Upon Us (6:48)
3. Solitude Aeturnus - Destiny falls to ruin (5:05)
4. Blackfinger - I Am Jon (3:16)
5. Blackfinger - All My Sorrow (4:45)
6. The Skull - The Door (5:39)
7. The Skull - Ravenswood (3:51)
8. Lid - Lid (3:32)
9. Trouble - Psalm 9 (4:51)
10. Trouble - Pray for the dead (5:54)
11. Trouble - Peace of Mind (3:00)
12. Trouble - The Wolf (4:34)
After 23 years of silence, Finnish cult black metallers and pioneers of the scene, Darkwoods My Betrothed, are making their long-awaited comeback with a new full-length album, Angel Of Carnage Unleashed, to be unveiled on November 12 via Napalm Records.
The album sets free a unique blend of brutal, fast-driven black metal and epic anthems, in which eerie screams merge with heroic clean vocals, monumental choirs and majestic keyboards along with gory stories of famine, war, plague and the inescapable brutality
"'Crawling King Chaos' is the infernal first single from our new album, Existence Is Futile," begins Cradle Of Filth bassist Daniel Firth. "There's a lot happening in the song, so my approach to the bass was to keep things simple - follow the drums and provide a solid foundation for everything else. I hope you enjoy it!"
"I'm using my signature bass from Schecter, the Hellraiser Extreme-5 in 'Cthulhu Burst'.
BEHEMOTH and ARCH ENEMY's thunderous European Siege tour is regrettably forced to postpone until October 2022 due to the ongoing global situation.
In more positive news, by 2022, both of the revered metal bands will have brand new albums arriving, so expect a taste of new music from both artists for these rescheduled dates.
The Black Metal elemental force from Greece, Rotting Christ is releasing their underrated EP “Der Perfekte Traum” with a new edition.
Vinyl collectors can be particularly pleased, the disc will be released via vinylstore.gr and will be enriched by various live tracks. The EP will appear in a small edition of a total of 666 copies and be available in various pressings (transparent, transparent red, black) and, in addition to the newly mastered
There is a desert which is very old, very dry, and very dangerous. Few have ever dared to cross it, and fewer have returned. Some say that it is a desert between places, others say that it is a desert between worlds. Those who have crossed it and returned swear that the desert is another world in itself - an astral bridge, which swallows all but the most well-prepared travelers.