Encyclopedia of 2021’s best albums.

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#Special edition-encyclopedia of 2021’s best albums†25.01.2022

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Gates of Doom Epic Death/Black Metal band from Italy released the first Full-length album Aquileia Mater Aeterna on January 6, 2021.

Aquileia Mater Aeterna is a concept album focused on the friulian city of Aquileia, from its foundation by the Romans in 181 B.C. to its destruction in 452 A.D. at the hands of Attila, king of the Huns. Historically, the city has been a crossroads of peoples and cultures crucial for the birth of the band’s homeland

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Friûl and its identity.

Lineup Manuel Scapinello - Guitars Stefano Declich - Vocals Giulia Zuliani - Drums Luca Franzin - Bass Francesco Nobile - Guitars

Tracklist 1. Sulcus Primigenius / Under the Sign of the Eagle 2. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum 3. I, the Eagle, the Strength, the Power 4. The Galenus Plague 5. Under a Treacherous Domain 6. Attila Flagellum Dei 7. Aquileia Mater Aeterna

Frozen Soul Death Metal band from United States released the first Fulllength album Crypt of Ice on January 8, 2021.

Dallas Texas’ FROZEN SOUL lives up to their name as the sound of death metal at its most cold and classic. Riff after slow, grinding riff, there’s no mistaking the themes of isolation and suffering that permeate the quintet’s massive sonic missives. From the first note of their Century Media debut, Crypt of Ice, it’s like the march of Game of Thrones’ Night King put to sound: nothing subtle about it at all.

“The feeling I’m getting from playing in FROZEN SOUL is powerful in a way I wasn’t getting from other bands I’ve played in before», says frontman

Chad Green. “The sound. The lyrics. Even the logo itself has a harshness to it that just feels powerful and cold. Add to that the depression of dealing with real life and the venomous people that can inhabit it and the vibe of the band just makes sense.”

Lineup Samantha Mobley - Bass Michael Munday - Guitars Chad Green - Vocals Matt Dennard - Drums Chris Bonner - Guitars

Tracklist 1. Crypt of Ice 2. Arctic Stranglehold 3. Hand of Vengeance 4. Wraith of Death 5. Merciless 6. Encased in Ice 7. Beat to Dust 8. Twist the Knife 9. Faceless Enemy 10. Gravedigger

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Alkonost Folk/Pagan/Doom/Black Metal band from Russia released the thirteenth Fulllength album Ведомые ветром / Guided by the wind on January 21, 2021.

In Slavic mythology, Alkonost (Алконост) is the goddess of the land of the dead. She is pictured as halfwoman/half-bird.»Guided by the wind» is about those who dared to trust the wind, believing in its secret power the magic spilled in the air.

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power of the word and what is the word of power. The new album will tell you how the wind fills the sail of a misguided ship and leads him out of the fog to the saving light of a lighthouse. And how a word can lead and change the fate of a person, igniting the flames of the heart the way the wind blows the fire. And also about what happens if you don’t listen to the wise words and go against the wind. For example, if you swim across the river after sunset on the eve of a Long Night, neglect the seer’s advice or offend those who are protected by a spell.

Tracklist 1. Интро (Гимн Ветру) 2. Там, где живут ветра 3. Лента на ветру 4. Долгая ночь 5. Парус 6. Воин слова 7. Ведьма (Ворония cover) 8. Пророчество 9. Песня силы 10. Bird Lineup Andrey Losev - Guitar Ksenia Pobuzhanskaya - Vocals Rustem Shagitov - Bass, Guitars

Endezzma Black Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder on January 22, 2021.

With a massive, grandiose but also a very raw sound, the Norwegian black metal band Endezzma returns with their third album entitled “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”.

Recorded in Vika Studio and Malpherno Studio in Norway, the album was mixed and masted by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Stockholm.

With “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”, Endezzma takes a huge step forward in songwriting. Mixing the raw grimness

of the early days of black metal with the epic grandeur of later bands, the album bridges the gap between the dark anthem and primitive aggression.

Tracklist 1. The Awakening 2. The Name of the Night is a Strong Tower 3.

Anomalious Abomination 4. The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder 5. Formless and Void 6. Garden ov Heathen

7. Wild Gloriour Death 8. Open Your Eyes and Stab the Sight 9.

Arrows of Equilibrium 10. Closure Lineup Morten Shax - vocals Malphas - guitars Nihil - guitars Aske - bass Skriu - drums

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Asphyx Death Metal band from Netherlands released the tenth Full-length album Necroceros on January 22, 2021.

The legendary Dutch Death Elite ASPHYX finally return with their new, 10th full studio album release.

The human race is doomed and only death is real.

2020 was that kind of year. And now, to noisily emphasise that oblivion is definitely coming, the mighty ASPHYX

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are back with a brand new album and another blizzard of mortality-threatening riffs.

Deafening proof that the last 12 months have conjured a few positive results along the way, Necroceros is a murderous masterpiece for the never-ending age of death. Still heavier than just about everything else, ASPHYX will be first to the frontline of live performance when all this madness is over.

After all, death comes to us all in the end.

Tracklist 1. The Sole Cure Is Death 2. Molten Black Earth 3. Mount Skull 4. Knights Templar Stand 5. Three Years of Famine 6. Botox Implosion 7. In Blazing Oceans 8. The Nameless Elite 9. Yield or Die 10. Necroceros

Nervosa Thrash Metal band from Brazil released the fourth Full-length album Perpetual Chaos on January 22, 2021.

Thrash metal powerhouse Nervosa attacks with inexorable full femme power, leaving the world in «Perpetual Chaos».

The newly staffed quartet showcases their ability for impetuously feral, pungently sharp riffs and aggressive vocals on 13 massive tracks. The new line up – featuring founding guitarist Prika Amaral and talented new members Diva Satanica on vocals, Mia Wallace on bass and Eleni Nota on drums – delivers a massive punch of thrash spliced with remarkable death m e t a l

assaults. The powerful new formation of NERVOSA adds a contemporary touch to this already thrashing institution of metal.

A tremendous outcome awaits with brawl-brushed guitar lines, blisteringly fast drums and critical lyricism - striking the listener in a way only NERVOSA could. Viva «Perpetual Chaos»!

Tracklist 1. Venomous 2. Guided by Evil 3. People of the Abyss 4. Perpetual Chaos 5. Until the Very End

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Genocidal Command 7.

Kings of Domination 8. Time to Fight 9. Godless Prisoner 10. Blood Eagle 11. Rebel Soul 12.

Pursued by Judgement 13. Under Ruins Lineup Prika Amaral - Guitars Mia Wallace - Bass Eleni Nota - Drums Diva Satanica - Vocals

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Hell-Born Black/Death/Thrash Metal band from Poland released the sixth Full-length album Natas Liah on January 26, 2021.

Hell-Born returns 12 years after their last album. The band was started in 1996 by Behemoth cofounder Baal and Les, also a former Behemoth musician as well as a member of Damnation.

There are IX songs on «Natas Liah»

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- old school, black death metal with a bit of melodies typical for the group. The band confirms that it is by far definitely the best album in their career.

For fans of: Venom, Vader, Behemoth, Sodom.

Lineup Baal Ravenlock Bass, Vocals Les - Guitars Diabolizer - Drums

Tracklist 1. When You Are God 2. Axis of Decay 3. Ye Olde Woods Devil 4. Uroboros 5. The Butcher 6. Son of Earth 7. In God’s Death 8. Soulrape 9. Blakk Metal

Hån Black Metal band from Switzerland released the second Full-length album Breathing the Void on January 29, 2021.

Hån (Norwegian for «scorn») from Switzerland play mostly fast-paced, traditional Black Metal with a melodic edge, reminiscent of the classic Finnish style. The band was founded in 2009 and has ever since been active, on-stage - supporting numerous big Black Metal acts all across Europe - and off, even though «Breathing the Void» is only their second album after the well-acclaimed 2016 d e b u t

«Facilis Descensus Averni».

The new album continues where the debut left off - with raw, yet melodic and sometimes atmospheric blasphemy that is recommended for fans of bands like Sargeist, Satanic Warmaster, Baptism or Drowning the Light.

Souls 9. Salvation Line-up: Gnist - Vocals Lodur - Guitar Kryptos – Guitar Jehoruan – Bass Grevling – Drums

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Breathing The Void 3. Olethrus 4. Enter An E t e r n a l World 5. Goatman 6. Asterion 7. Dissent 8.

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Caedes Cruenta Black Metal band from Greece released the third Full-length album Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults on February 1, 2020.

Formed in 2003, Caedes Cruenta are the foremost torchbearers for the classic Greek black metal sound. For them, the early Hellenic flame of the “Big Three” – Rotting Christ, Varathron, and Necromantia – never died, nor did the contemporaneous flames of early Thou Art Lord and Zemial among others.

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“Greek black metal” may have changed shapes and styles over the past 30 years, but for the members of Caedes Cruenta, the ancient days of the early ‘90s burns stronger than ever. Like its full-length predecessor and the EPs right before and right after, one could be forgiven for thinking CAEDES CRUENTA have transported the listener back in time with Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults, so authentic and invigorating is their Hellenic classicism. Thus, with this album do CAEDES CRUENTA rightfully deserve to be mentioned among the Greek gods.

Tracklist: 1. Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults 2. Aura of Immortal Souls 3. Into the Ashes of the Unforgotten Woods (L’Inferno) 4. From the Darkest Paths of Golgotha 5. The Mystical Ritual of the Dark Priests 6. Recitation of Abyssic Necropsalms 7. The Wizard of Yaddith 8. Under the Shadow of Death

Korpiklaani Folk Metal band from Finland released the eleventh Full-length album Jylhä on February 5, 2020.

Here and now, Korpiklaani’s fearless journey continues on – and this time, the journey is powered by rather serious subject matter.

Their eleventh full-length studio record «Jylhä» (which has no direct translation but can be described as majestic, or wild and rugged in a beautiful way) brings all the well-known and essential ingredients to the table: heavy-duty guitar riffing, rhythmic folk melodies and more.

Tracklist 1. Verikoira 2. Niemi 3. Leväluhta 4. Mylly 5. Tuuleton 6. Sanaton maa 7. Kiuru 8. Miero 9. Pohja 10. Huolettomat 11. Anolan aukeat 12. Pidot 13. Juuret

Lineup Cane - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Jonne Järvelä - Vocals, Guitars, Mandolin, Hurdy gurdy, Violafon, Shaman drum, Djembe, Flute Jarkko Aaltonen - Bass Tuomas Rounakari Violin Sami Perttula Accordion Samuli Mikkonen - Drums

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Feskarn Viking/Folk Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Ravens Way on February 5, 2020.

With a all new (studio gear, Ibanez guitar, soundcard and upgraded software), «Raven’s Way» have higher quality delivering a lot of viking elements with troat singing, choirs, shaman drums and mouth harps.

14 tracks featuring experimental folk elements with

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m o s t l y black metal and more balanced sound quality.

Lineup Feskarn Vocals, Drums, Guitars, Bass, Mouth harp

Tracklist 1. Ravens Way 2. Broken World 3. Sigur 4. Vägen framåt 5. Parasite 6. War 7. Relics from the Past 8. Livets tid 9. Golden Age 10. Strong from Nature 11. Destroyed 12. Yggdrasil 13. The Frost of the Fallen 14. Ein bier

Dead Exaltation Technical/Progressive Death Metal band from India released the first Fulllength album Despondent on February 5, 2020.

Dead Exaltation began in 2015, drawing inspiration from a variety of bands, including Cryptopsy, Cattle Decapitation, Gorod, Spawn of Possession, and Cynic. Throughout their existence, the band has focused on creating thought-provoking, concept-based lyrics and song structures adorned with complex rhythms and melodies, as well as an old school sensibility.

Lyrically the band chooses to add a bit of spice to the usual death metal fare by creating

a conceptual story that continues with every song. It revolves around a psychopath warden who runs a prison holding innocent people picked up from the streets. The guards of prison are cannibal psychopaths who do not refrain themselves from torturing, killing, and eating people. Like every good tale, this story is divided into three acts: the incidents, the psychology of the warden, and an investigation leading to a brutal and bloody end of the story.

4. The Conversation 5. The Psychology 6. The Transformation 7. Omnia Mors Aequat 8. In Pursuit of 9. Despondent Lineup Aditya Oke - Drums Satyajit Gargori Vocals Mradul Singhal (R.I.P. 2020) - Guitars, Bass

Tracklist 1. Gloom 2. Involuntary Emasculation 3. Coerced Sewer Ingest

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Ablaze My Sorrow After four years of incubation, Ablaze My Sorrow announce their triumphant return with a new album. The fifth full length, entitled Among Ashes and Monoliths, introduce new vocalist Jonas Udd, whose aggressive rasp fits the passionate band to perfection. The other four members return intact from prior releases. Still fresh sounding in 2020, the band present us with an opus of impassioned self-reflection, tackling

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themes of depression and selfworth. Across twelve tracks, the band speak catharsis from experience, and the truth of their words is evident.

Including speed/thrash metal energy, the veteran group, this time, brought more dynamism into their crafts. An underrated gem, the Falkenberg quintet once again let their emotional style of Melodic Death Metal do the talking for them.

Tracklist 1. My Sorrow 2.

Among Ashes and Monoliths

3. Black Waters 4. Grit 5. Her Cold Embrace 6. At the Graves of Giants 7. Dark Chasms 8. The Cavernous Deep 9. Nonexistence 10. March of the Eldricht Spawn 11. The Day I Die 12. Frihet Framför Feghet Lineup Vocals – Jonas Udd Guitars – Magnus Karlsson Guitars – Dennie Linden Bass – Anders Brorsson Drums – Alex Kribensten

Kjeld Black Metal band from Netherlands released the second Full-length album Ôfstân on February 15, 2020.

The album was written over the course of 2017, 2018, and 2019. It is an extension and an evolution of their previous works that raises the bar set in the past, with nine insanely strong songs.

Ever since their early beginnings, the band has had one vision: to combine aggression and atmosphere in black metal.

The band draws inspiration from Frisian nature, myths and sagas, and the darkness of man, combining these to create their own unique

sound. Kjeld plays fast paced black metal without forsaking melody and dynamics. This album is crafted with impressive songwriting and a monolithic sound, with total attention for pure genius melodies, fueled with the most ferocious and aggressive drumming The Netherlands has to offer. This album is pure creative mastery, with their trademark sound and riffs combined to create their own unique sound. As always, the songs are soaked in the rich and ancient Frisian history, and solely chanted in Frisian, a minority Germanic language most closely related to English.

Tracklist 1. Betsjoend 2. De iensume widner 3. Wylde rixt 4. Ôfstân 5. Asbran 6. Wite fokel 7. Falske doop 8. Skaad 9. Konfrontaasje

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Harakiri for the Sky Post-Black Metal band from Austria released the fifth Full-length album Mære on February 19, 2020.

Mӕre - a malicious folkloristic entity creeping on sleeping people’s chest during the night and causing breathlessness and anxiety. It’s exactly this state of diffuse terror and paralysis that has been enshrined in HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s music ever since their debut album.

As pioneers of the post movement, mixing haunting black metal with post rock moments, the Austrians have, ever since their conception in 2011, drawn fans and

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critics deeper and deeper into their maelstrom of melancholy, self hate and anger, and even reached #29 of the German charts with their previous release «Arson».

And once again, several friends of the band entered the intoxicated world of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY to guest on «Mӕre»: While Alcest’s front man Neige brings a haunting flair to ‘Sing For The Damage We’ve Done’, before the anonymous voice of Gaerea joins in on ‘Silver Needle // Golden Dawn’.

As session drummer, the band one again commited none less than

Kerim „Krimh“ Lechner (Septicflesh, live Behemoth) in the studio and the atmospheric artwork was designed by Art of Maquenda.

Tracklist 1. I, Pallbearer 2. Sing for the Damage We’ve Done 3. Us Against December Skies 4. I’m All About the Dusk 5. Three Empty Words 6. Once upon a Winter 7. And Oceans Between Us 8. Silver Needle // Golden Dawn 9. Time Is a Ghost 10. Song to Say Goodbye (Placebo cover) Lineup M.S. - All instruments J.J. - Vocals

Thron Black Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album Pilgrim on February 19, 2020.

Formed in 2015 as a project of experienced, devoted musicians from German bands in the Black Forest region, THRON’s initial goals were to play authentic black/ death in the spirit of the early to mid ‘90s. The band delve even further into the musical territory they flirted with as on their debut and reinforce all foundations on ‘Pilgrim’, with more emphasis on slashing wicked fluid melodies infused with energetic, triumphant classic heavy metal swagger. THRON never loses an opportunity to furiously enhance the catchiness of each

composition with a greatly balanced and coherent old school feel. Utterly brutalising and masterfully composed, the end result is truly spellbinding.

Tracklist 1. The Prophet 2. To Dusk 3. Nothingness 4. Hosanna in the Highest 5. Epitome 6. The Reverence 7. The Valley of the Blind 8. Den of Iniquity 9. Gaia 10. Into Disarray Lineup SXIII - Bass ZIV - Drums PVIII - Guitars TVII - Guitars SAMCA - Vocals

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Einherjer Viking Metal band from Norway released the eighth Full-length album North Star on February 26, 2021.

With North Star, Viking Metal pioneers EINHERJER proving their status as the pioneers of blending Nordic Black Metal and Folk Metal genres once again.

The Norwegian metal outfit remains musically true to themselves and reinforces their exceptional position.

North Star is

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EINHERJER’s musical mission towards something bigger - the search for guidance by the North Star in a constantly changing world that is searching for stability.

Founded in Norway in 1993, the band has significantly influenced the way of Viking Metal in the following years with Dragons Of The North - 25 years later, EINHERJER are stronger than ever and are bursting with energy on North Star!

Tracklist: 1. The Blood and the Iron 2. Stars 3. West Coast Groove 4. Ascension 5. Higher Fire 6. Echoes in Blood 7. Listen to the Graves 8. Chasing the Serpent Lineup Ulvar - Drums, Keyboards Grimar - Vocals, Bass Ole Sønstabø - Guitars (lead) Tom Enge - Guitars

Gorr Black Metal band from Norway released the second Full-length album Kvit som snoen, kald i blikket on March 1, 2021.

Kvit Som Snøen, Kald i Blikket, literally «White as snow, cold stare» draws a line from the present time to a distant past and thus points at the timelessness experienced in our immediate surroundings.

The duality in relying on nature for survival and the very clear sense of doom that follows closely is reflected through this

album. Life and death, combat and construction, noble goals and meaningless losses. This is Kvit Som Snøen, Kald i Blikket.

Lineup Skuggimaðr Vocals, Drums, Guitars Hateful Wind - Guitars, Bass, Drums

Tracklist 1. Innleiing 2. Bitande kaldt 3. Mørkt føre, mørke bak 4. Kvit som snøen, kald i blikket 5.

Ditt uendelege raseri 6. Kom ut i mitt mørke

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Zaratus Black Metal band from Greece released the first Fulllength album In the Days of Whore on March 4, 2021.

Zaratus were formed in 2018 by Bill Zobolas (Soulskinner, Thou Art Lord e.t.c) and Stefan Necroabyssius (Varathron, Katavasia e.t.c). The idea behind the creation of the band was the unity of forces of 2 members with history in the creation of the Greek scene of the 90s, where they will offer a fresh idea of how black metal should sound today. Based

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on the deep roots of authentic black metal, but with many elements of epic, majestic and beyond the limits, Zaratus create a unique identity in both style and sound, which makes them stand out.

Based on and with respect to their black metal roots, ZARATUS broke the bonds of the limits of the genre and passed to other dimensions, touching lyricism, epicism, classical periods, but also sometimes giving redemption to the listener through simplicity.

Tracklist 1. Ceremonies Before Light’s Existence 2. Darkness and Decay 3. In the Days of Whore 4. The Haunted Palace 5. Chaos and Blood 6. Heritage of Fire 7. Zoroastrian Priests Lineup Bill El - All instruments Stefan Necroabyssious - Vocals

Mork Black Metal band from Norway released the fifth Full-length album Katedralen on March 5, 2021.

Following on mercilessly from 2020’s aptly titled ‘Pesta’ EP, Norwegian act Mork resumes its ascension through the ranks of the Scandinavian black metal scene with the fifth chapter, ‘Katedralen’, venturing ever further from the more primal early Darkthrone-based foundations, while still fundamentally keeping the grim flame of the old school in its DNA. ’Katedralen’ is undoubtedly Mork’s most accomplished work to date, pushing n e w

creative frontiers with a more dynamic approach to the song composition and an expanded breadth to the riffs and melodies, weaving a new masterpiece of groove, harshness, grandiosity, sadness, beauty and power in the process.

Including guest Appearances from members of Darkthrone,

Kampfar & Skepticism.

Tracklist 1. Dodsmarsjen 2. Svartmalt 3. Arv 4.

Evig Intens Smerte 5. Det siste gode i meg 6. Fodt til a herske 7. Lysbaereren 8. De fortapte sjelers katedral Lineup T h o m a s Eriksen Everything

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Wolfheart Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the EP Skull Soldiers on March 5, 2021.

Finnish death metal unit WOLFHEART continue their heroic battle with the Skull Soldiers EP, which includes two frostbitten new singles and two special rarities. The new studio singles “Skull Soldiers” and “Hereditary” both explore new territory while maintaining the

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WOLFHEART trademark sound – searing through the mountainous ice with colossal, guttural vocals, driving blastbeats and rhythms. The tracks tell awe-inspiring tales of a small, special warfare unit of powerful Finnish soldiers who painted skulls and skeletons onto their helmets during the Winter War, continuing on the battle theme of Wolves of Karelia.

Tracklist: 1. Skull Soldiers 2. Hereditary 3. Aeon of version) 4. Reaper (Live)

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Lineup Tuomas Saukkonen Vocals, Guitars Lauri Silvonen - Bass, Vocals (backing) Joonas Kauppinen - Drums Vagelis Karzis - Guitars

Baest Death Metal band from Denmark released the third Fulllength album Necro Sapiens on March 5, 2021.

BAEST come from Aarhus in Denmark and have successfully established themselves as one of the country’s most promising metal acts in recent years. While deeply rooted in straight-forward classic death metal inspired by genre legends like Dismember, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Death, and Bolt Thrower, the 2015 formed band evolved from a Danish underground phenomenon to an internationally touring act.

«Necro Sapiens» truly drops their most anticipated and most important album so far.

Tracklist Lineup 1. The Forge Mattias Melchiorsen 2. Genesis Bass 3. Necro Sapiens Sebastian Abildsten - Drums 4. Czar Lasse Revsbech - Guitars 5. Abattoir Svend Karlsson - Guitars 6. Goregasm Simon Olsen - Vocals 7. Towers of Suffocation 8.

Purification Through Mutilation 9.

Meathook Massacre 10. Sea of Vomit

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Dead Sun Death Metal band from Sweden released the sixth Full-length album Night Terrors on March 16, 2021.

DEAD SUN is one of the first bands created

by Swedish mastermind Rogga Johansson ( PAG A N I Z E R , P U T R E VO R E , REVOLTING, THE G R O T E S Q U E R Y, RIBSPREADER and dozens more...) back in the year ‘96, having released 4 demos until 2005, but it wasn’t until 2013 that he released his first album,

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and since then he has released 5 albums and one EP. «Night Terrors» has been mixed and mastered by Hakan Stuvemark (WOMBBATH), and it contains some guitar solos made by himself on this album. The cover art has been done by Roberto Toderico.

Lineup Rogga Johansson - Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals Matthias Fiebig - Drums

Tracklist 1. Like Rain 2. Kingdom of the Mad 3. Night Terrors 4. Worlds 5. Nectar of the Gods 6. Vortex Dance 7. The Lunatics 8.

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Helheim Black Metal bands from Norway released the Split Henholdsvis on March 19, 2021.

For «Henholdsvis» TAAKE has recorded two new tracks, «Brotne Bein og Mannefall» and «Ein Baat i Foss», whose lyrics are based on poems by the famed Norwegian writer Arne Garborg (1851-1924). With these new tracks, the band has produced the kind of Black Metal fans crave - dark, cold and gritty.

HELHEIM, on the other hand, will present two covers. The first is a re-mastered version of EMPEROR’s “Heksesabbat / Witches Sabbath”, which originally appeared on the tribute album “A Tribute to Emperor – In Honour of

Icon E” in 2012, and which has now been totally remastered.

For the second of the two covers HELHEIM have chosen to go down a very interesting path by recording a very different, and original, version of “Orkan”, from TAAKE’s «Noregs Vaapen»album.

Tracklist Side A 1. Taake - Brotne Bein og Mannefall 2. Taake - Ein Baat i Foss

Lineup Taake Hoest - All instruments, Vocals Helheim Hrymr - Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Piano, Programming, Guitars (acoustic), Mouth harp, Vocals (choirs) V’gandr - Vocals, Bass H’grimnir - Vocals, Guitars (rhythm) Reichborn - Guitars (lead)

Side B 3. Helheim - Orkan 4. Helheim - Heksesabbat

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Batushka Atmospheric Black Metal band from Poland released the EP Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj on March 19, 2021.

In December 2018, both Христофор and Барфоломей claimed they kicked the other one out of Batushka and are continuing the band separately. For now, there are two versions of the band: Христофор’s

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Батюшка and Барфоломей’s Batushka.

Lineup Paluch - Bass Paweł Jaroszewicz - Drums P. - Guitars) Барфоломей - Vocals Błażej Kasprzak - Vocals (backing) Jaca - Vocals (backing)

Tracklist 1. Письмо I / Pismo I 2. Письмо II/ Pismo II 3. Письмо III / Pismo III 4. Письмо IV / Pismo IV 5. Письмо V / Pismo V 6. Письмо VI / Pismo VI

Martyrium Melodic Black Metal band from Malta released the fifth Full-length album Lamia Satanica on March 19, 2021.

MartYriuM is an Extreme Metal band from Malta (EU), formed by Count Mortem in 1999 with the spawn of the second wave of Black Metal. This band is a unique blend of Black and Death Metal with a specific sound design introducing Sinister Orchestrations and Industrial Elements to the style. MartYriuM’s performances are both aggressive and theatrical, full of dark acts and occult imagery that will unleash infernal chaos from within your wretched soul.

The live shows are particular in their rituals

which can include anything from ripping pages from the Black Book of Baalzebub and spreading his plague of Darkness into the world, to calling Asmodeus while desecrating the stage with blood or graveyard dirt.

Martyrium’s new blasphemic masterpiece «Lamia Satanica», presenting to the world their new growler Sandra Misanthrope. This band is a unique blend of Black and Death Metal with a specific sound design introducing Sinister Orchestrations and Industrial Elements to the style.

Tracklist 1. Intro - In Somnium Mortuum Filii 2. Sacred Book of Baal 3. Starless Opacity 4. End of My Realm 5. Emanation of Souls 6. Curse of Salvation 7. Order of the Fly 8. A Stain on Hera’s Throne 9. Venom Divine 10.

Betrothed to Damnation Lineup Count Mortem - Guitars Úmarth - Keyboards Sandmist - Bass Sherath - Guitars Pandemonia - Vocals (backing) S a n d r a Misanthrope - Vocals Vulcanus Drums Guitars

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Sarkrista Black Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album Sworn to Profound Heresy on March 21, 2021.

The band’s name «Sarkrista» comes from the German word «Sakristan» and the Latin word «Sacrista» - both of which have the meaning «church-servant» (or «verger»).

Since their fiery formation in 2011, Germany’s SARKRISTA have upheld the banner of pure ‘n’ proud black metal in a most paradigmatic

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Finnish fashion - which is not surprising, given that the band consists of transplanted Finns.

Now, together they cut their flesh for Satan with the longawaited release of Sworn to Profound Heresy. Immediately recognizable as classic, characteristic SARKRISTA, Sworn to Profound Heresy makes good on its titular promise: you can literally FEEL the band bleed through every ripping note and ripped vocal chord.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Sworn to Profound Heresy 3. Lair of Cursed Remains 4. Ablazing Ritual Torches 5. The Chosen Ones of Satan 6. Conjuring the Profane Fury 7. Destroyer of the Sun 8. The Beast Reborn 9. A Whisper from Forgotten Coffins

The Stone Black Metal band from Serbia released the ninth Full-length album Kosturnice on March 26, 2021.

The Stone is back with their 9th full length album «Kosturnice», 3 years after their previous album “Teatar Apsurda”.

Their new opus is a straight path towards unholy worshipping of demonic soundscapes filled with thunder roaming atmosphere.

Throat grasping, devil preaching, hateful black metal is what you can expect on «Kosturnice».

Unbelievable musicianship has been forged into this album and it’s without a doubt the band’s most outstanding output to date.

Not to forget to mention that besides «Kosturnice» is a hell of a masterpiece, the band also celebrates their 20-year anniversary under their current name “The Stone” and 25 years of existence in general.

They are without a doubt one of the leading pioneers of Eastern European Black Metal.

Tracklist 1. Pramaglina 2. Okamenjen 3. Kosturnice 4. Tremors Beneath the Ground of the Charnel House

5. Ime koje su razvejali vetrovi 6. Engulfed by the Abyss 7. Omnicid 8. Jebes pero, dodaj mac Lineup Kozeljnik - Guitars Glad - Vocals Vrag - Bass Demonetras - Guitars (rhythm) Honza Kapák - Drums

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Grabak Black Metal band from Germany released the seventh Full-length album Scion on March 31, 2021.

A few years after «Furia l» on the «Agash Daeva» album, the band thought it would be a good idea to bring a second part of the concept to life. «Furia» stands for everything that means destruction, decay and fall. Social values, cultures and religious concepts are nothing but cobwebs in autumn or a blow job on a gloomy street corner. They are interchangeable and

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have no meaning in the course of the eons. Everything repeats itself, is recreated, and disappears again.

And that order in chaos is Furia.

No compromises are made in terms of style. Furious riffs are paired with mid-tempo parts that skillfully set the desired atmospheric density to music. Once again, the Saxon veteran collaborated with Echolux recording studios to provide this opus with the right sound.

Let’s follow Grabak into the abyss of human souls, which can present themselves in many diff erent ways, and let’s face the conjured demons from old and new times.

Tracklist: 1. Scion 2. Epitomes of Cruelty 3. Furia II - Weltenbrand 4. Blutkelch 5. The Sirens Song 6. Heirs of the Serpent 7. M.A.I.D. - My Art Is Death 8. Black Water 9. Echoing the Sound of Hell

Wode Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the third Full-length album Burn in Many Mirrors on April 2, 2021.

With six new tracks spanning 40 minutes of meticulously summoned infernal ferocity Wode scorch the landscape and drape it in the foul reek of death’s fog.

One may hear the ancient voice of obscure and revered gods reflected through Wode’s sulphuric incantations, the raging fire of the most blasphemous legends of the past called upon by the spirit of chaos and death. Shrouded in sepulchral black metal atmosphere and freezing cold melodies ‘Burn

In Many Mirrors’ displays a studied regard for songcraft and motive well beyond mere convention, transforming into a concentrated dark chorus of ruin and abomination.

Now into the second decade of existence in the material plane, Wode’s definitive melding of black metal’s ecstatic desecration, death metal’s sharply attuned sense of violent purpose and classic anthemic 80s metal

instills ‘Burn In Many Mirrors’ with the elements necessary to sear itself into the fervent heart of the faithful.

Tracklist 1. Lunar Madness 2. Serpent’s Coil 3. Fire in the Hills 4. Sulphuric Glow 5. Vanish Beneath 6. Streams of Rapture (I, II, III) Lineup E.T. - Bass T.H. - Drums, Guitar, Synth & Keys M.C. - Guitars, Vocals, Synth & Keys D. Shaw - Guitars, Backing Vocals

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Evil Drive Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the third Fulllength album Demons Within on April 2, 2021.

Evil Drive represents a more Melodic Metal Music style with some thrash metal influence.

The face of the band is the stunning female vocalist Viktoria Viren, whose powerful performance consists of dissonant heavy vocals. The group was put together in January 2013.

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Tracklist 1. Ravens Way Lineup Ville Wiren - Guitars Viktoria Viren - Vocals J-P Pusa - Guitars Antti Tani - Drums Matti Sorsa - Bass

2. Payback 2. Breaking the Chains 3. Demons Within 4. Rising from the Revenge 5. We Are One 6. Too Wild to Live Too Rare to Die 7. Lord of Chaos 8. Bringer of Darkness 9. In the End 10. Ghost Dimension

Saille Symphonic Black Metal band from Spain/Netherlands/ Belgium released the fifth Fulllength album V on April 9, 2021.

Sail or Saille is the 4th letter of the Irish Ogham alphabet, meaning «willow». The band name is pronounced [sahl-yeh].

Hailing from the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium, SAILLE is slowly, but surely making their mark on the metal scene and performed all over Europe.

In 2019 SAILLE felt the need for a dramatic overall change, which led to a fresher, but most importantly much darker, heavier approach and sound.

Since their inception, SAILLE has released four acclaimed albums of which the 2017 release ‘Gnosis’ was very well received and praised. With every song sounding unique and full of riffs, savage drumming,

thunderous bass and excellent vocals.

At the same time, SAILLE was seeking a deeper darkness, both live and in the studio. Therefore, the fifth album is an entirely different style.

Lineup Tony Van den Eynde Drums Reinier Schenk - Guitars Kristof Van Iseghem - Bass Juanjo Pérez - Guitars Jesse Peetoom - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Suffering Sanctuary (Parts 1, 2, 3) 2. Fetid Flesh 3. Charnel Chamber 4. Loathsome Legacy 5. Empty Expanse 6. Baleful Beauty 7. Terror Tapestry 8. Mirror Motions

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Wolfchant Pagan/Folk Metal band from Germany released the seventh Full-length album Omega : Bestia on April 9, 2021.

WOLFCHANT was founded in 2003 in Sankt Oswald, Lower Bavaria

by Lokhi, Skaahl, Gaahnt and Norgahd.

In 2020 the band signed a new contract with REAPER ENTERTAINMENT and the new disc «OMEGA : BESTIA» is now released.

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with timeless melodies, driving riffs and epic parts as well as the aggressive screams and the choral vocals was retained and expanded with a lot of flair by several nuances.

Tracklist Disc 1 1. Omega : Bestia 2. Komet 3. Into Eternal Darkness 4. Im Zeichen des Tiers 5.

Der Geist und die Dunkelheit 6. Bestie 7. Jäger der Nacht 8. Out in the Dark

9. The Flame Disc 2 1. Kelch deiner Freiheit 2. Wolkenheer 3. The Last Storm 4. The Devil Rides Out 5. The End Lineup Lokhi - Vocals (harsh) Skaahl - Guitars (lead) Nortwin - Vocals (clean) Ghust - Drums Seehb - Guitars

Throne Melodic Blackened Death Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album Pestilent Dawn on April 9, 2021.

Revered and respected among the Midwest heavy music community, Throne have captivated and crushed the masses with a ferocious, relentless and intricate formula of Death Metal all their own. Since storming from the gates in late 2017 with their first jaw dropping live performance, Throne have consistently gained momentum, sharing the stage and holding their own with major extreme acts such as At The Gates, Exhumed, Revocation, Suffocation, Belphegor and

Goatwhore.

The band’s debut full length, ‘Pestilent Dawn’, showcases the band’s mastery of the genre. It’s a complete Death/ Black bludgeoning from beginning to end that will certainly leave listener’s mouths agape in awe and necks sore from non-stop headbanging!

Lineup Leslie Drake Bass Kollin Perpignani - Drums Nathan Barnes Guitars, Vocals Joseph - Guitars

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Amongst the Sinners, They Came Forth 3. In the Midst of Chaos 4. And They Shall Weep 5. Eternity in Mourning 6. Pestilent Dawn 7. Born of Death 8. Beyond Malice 9. All Creation Wept 10. Humanity’s Dusk

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Goath Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album III: Shaped by the Unlight on April 9, 2021.

Influenced by old bands like DEICIDE, MORBID ANGEL, MAYHEM and BLASPHEMY the three guys from Nuremberg (Germany) founded the band GOATH in the very end of 2015. with the new album in their hands the band is waiting for what they are best known for: «Tearing down world`s live clubs and spreading their satanic message through the dark sounds of death/- and black metal!...»

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the Unlight» GOATH stick to everything they believe in and that is playing aggressive Death / Black Metal its purest form. Raw, very powerful and evil - and this time even darker than ever! Most of the material was recorded while playing live in the studio, just like on their previous albums. No clicktracks and not thousands of overdubs! This is what makes «III: Shaped by the Unlight» so brutal. The energy that GOATH i s

spreading here punches the listener directly into the face.

Tracklist 1. Symbiosis of Vengeance And Guilt 2. Pretending to Serve While Raping 3. Shaped by the Unlight 4. Dissolving Flesh Redemption 5. Epitome of Perpetual Rage 6. Smoltification 7. Clitless Loyalty 8. Perception 9. Impregnated with Black Fire Lineup Serrator - Drums Goathammer - Guitars, Vocals Nils Fjandannson - Bass, Vocals

Elgibbor Black Metal band from Poland released the fifteenth Fulllength album Corruptus Vindicta on April 9, 2021.

«Elgibbor» means «The Almighty God» in Hebrew.

Elgibbor started as oldschool black metal band.

Since ‘Stronger Than Hell’ band presents black metal with folk/ambient influences à la Darkthrone and Graveland.

This release is based on the book of Job, and is bound to be 1 of the greatest Elgibbor titles EVER!

Tracklist 1. Land of Darkness 2. Curse the Black Day of Birth 3. Accused 4. Tormented 5. A Bitter Tounge 6. Scum 7. Whisper of Him 8. Dust & Ashes Lineup Aaron Kirby - Bass Logan Thompson - Drums Sebat Frost - Guitars Fire - All instruments, Vocals Azahel Frost - Vocals

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Cannibal Corpse Death Metal band from United States released the fifteenth Full-length album Violence Unimagined on April 16, 2021.

The title tells you everything you need to know about Cannibal Corpse’s fifteenth hellish opus.

Comprised of eleven tracks, it is state of the art death metal played with passion and breathless precision, making for another flawless addition to what is inarguably one of the premier catalogues

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the genre has thrown up. «It really follows the path we’ve been going down for a few years now,» states bassist and founding member Alex Webster. «I think we approach the writing in a similar way most every time: each of us try to write the heaviest, most memorable songs we can. We want each song to have its own identifiable character. Showing my age, I like to say you can ‘drop the needle’ on any point of one of our albums and quickly tell which song you’re listening to.»

Tracklist: 1. Murderous Rampage 2. Necrogenic Resurrection 3. Inhumane Harvest 4. Condemnation Contagion 5. Surround, Kill, Devour 6. Ritual Annihilation 7. Follow the Blood 8. Bound and Burned 9. Slowly Sawn 10. Overtorture 11. Cerements of the Flayed

Spectral Wound Black Metal band from Canada released the third Full-length album A Diabolic Thirst on April 16, 2021.

Montreal, QC black metal band SPECTRAL WOUND play virulent towering melancholic black metal.

With their new album “A Diabolic Thirst”, which follows 2018’s “Infernal Decadence”, the band take their own methodology of Quebecois black metal through vicious sonic layers that culminate in six triumphant ferocious hymns where blood freezing melodies and harsh yet massive overtones bring a decadent and euphoric flow to this glorious masterwork the band have conjured. Another black metal triumph

emanating from Canadian soil, one exposing once again the richness of Quebec’s unparalled black metal scene, “A Diabolic Thirst” not only captures that pure classic melodic black metal essence that was eminent in the late ‘90s/very early ‘00s but also serves its purpose today as a masterowk of glorious blackened magnitude.

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Imperial Saison Noire 2. Frigid and Spellbound 3. Soul Destroying Black Debauchery 4. Mausoleal Drift 5.

Fair Lucifer, Sad Relic 6. Diabolical Immanence Lineup Illusory - Drums Jonah - Vocals Patrick - Guitars Sean - Guitars Sam - Bass, Vocals

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Ildaruni Pagan Black Metal band from Armenia released the first Fulllength album Beyond Unseen Gateways on April 16, 2021.

Ildaruni emerged as a raging force from the depths of the Armenian underground metal scene in the year 2016.

Musically, Ildaruni represents a blend of relentless, epic black metal and ancient folk melodies, forgotten from times immemorial.

The lyrical themes explore the height of the Urartian domain through the cognitive machinations of a bygone age and the esoteric apprehension of ancient pagan occultism.

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Beyond Unseen Gateways, is a hymn to the blazing light that sank into shadowy shrines, to the wild darkness that covered the debris of Ardini, to the bygone flame that enlightened the sanctum of Haldi. Delivering the blend of ancient folk melodies and traditional black metal, filled with scorching aggression and chaotic transitions, the opus introduces an authentic sound and a spiritual journey to the mysteries untold. Each song is an inseparable part of a grand ode that explores the Urartian domain’s height and the esoteric knowledge of pagan mysticism.

Tracklist 1. Haldinini Baushini, Imsheini Tariani 2. Treading the Path of Cryptic Wisdom 3. Perpetual Vigil 4. Boundless Numen: Gardens of Ardini 5. Towards Subterranean Realms 6. Exalted Birth 7. Arakha 8. Whence Ravenstone Beckons Lineup Robert Meliksetyan – Guitars, Keyboards, Lyrics Arthur Poghosyan – Drums Mark Erskine – Guitars, Keyboards Artak Karapetyan – Vocals Garbis Vizoian – Bass, Lyrics

Hymnr Black Metal band from Russia released the first Full-length album Far Beyond Insanity on April 23, 2021.

Describing themselves as a «Black Metal band from unknown parts of the world» HYMNR plays its cards very close to its chest when it comes to its lineup, saying little more than that it is comprised of V on Vocals, V1 on Guitars and VII on Drums.

Intriguingly, the band did have this to say regarding both its formation, and it music: HYMNR is an entity, a

formation that spawned itself.

The music, the story, and the concept of HYMNR is its own tale, charting the tragic path that has led the world, humanity, and religion on a downwards spiral. HYMNR is not so much a band as a concept that sets forth the old anguish-filled tales of how it all ended up where it did. What HYMNR is, no one can say, except maybe the individual minds of the ones who are

willing to embark on this journey. HYMNR needs to be heard and seen, and, above all, felt.

Tracklist 1. Part I 2. Part II 3. Part III 4. Part IV Lineup VII - Drums VI - Guitars, Bass V - Vocals

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Ulvehyrde Black Metal band from Norway released the first Full-length album Englemakersken on April 23, 2021.

ULVEHYRDE became an entity in 2018, formed by the the past and present forces from Beastcraft, Sarkom, Angst Skvadron, Voluspaa and Paul DiAnno.

The music is described as fundamental mid-tempo black metal with

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lyrics based upon old, dark, Norwegian history.

An excellent, obscure and deeply cold release that spans the true norwegian black metal spirit and ULVEHYRDE pays perfect homage to the dark denizen of the nocturnal glades, and is a true paean to backwoods malignity.

Tracklist: 1. Jarlen 2. Disippelen 3. Likbålet 4. Englemakersken 5. Dødsuret 6. Skarpretteren 7. Diabolisten 8. Svartbækken Lineup Uvel - Bass Judikator - Drums Noctum - Guitars Straff - Guitars Sorath Northgrove - Vocals

Old Forest Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the sixth Fulllength album Mournfall on April 23, 2021.

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, the Old Forest is a small forested area which lies east of the Shire in Buckland. The Old Forest is one of the few survivors of the primordial forests which covered most of Eriador before the Second Age, and it once was but the northern edge of one immense forest which reached all the way to Fangorn forest.

OLD FOREST‘s new album ‘Mournfall’ is 8 tracks of doomladen Black Metal, ethereal atmospheres and melodies combined with tectonic riffs – the

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My Haunting album ‘Black Forests of Eternal Vision Doom’. Old Forest shares 2 6. Solitude Apocalypse members with In The Woods…, 7. Shadows Immemorial and can be seen as the depressive 8. A Bitter End Black Metal counterpoint to that 9. The Raven Looks On band’s recent material. The CD 10. Black Alchemist bonus tracks are the recently 11. Sussex Hell Hound unearthed and unreleased 2001 12. Serpent & Saint demo ‘Sussex Hell Hound’ Tracklist Lineup 1. Tyrant Spell Kobold - Vocals, Keyboards 2. The Anvils Beleth - Guitars, Bass 3. Despair is my Name Kobro - Drums 4. Red Sky in Mourning

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Gloomy Grim Symphonic Black Metal band from Finland released the seventh Fulllength album Agathonomicon on April 28, 2021.

GLOOMY GRIM is back with last album! The band started in 1995 in Finland as one-man band by Agathon’s will to make music in his own terms. In addition to horror film soundtracks, the biggest inspiration for Agathon has always been the dark life itself. As the music evolved, Agathon decided it’s time to gather a full band around

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him. Since then, Gloomy Grim have released six full-length albums and they have toured all over Finland, Baltic, Russia and Europe.

Now after 26 years of terror, Agathon decided to make his last testament to humanity and «Agathonomicon» is going to be end of GLOOMY GRIM’s recording career...

Tracklist 1. Invitation 2. The Hermit 3. Master Inside 4. Third Eye Opening 5. They Are Waiting 6. Conjunction to the Ground 7. To the Death I Have Sworn 8. Purity, Beauty, Freedom 9. Blood, Monsters, Darkness 10. Haunting, Hunting, Howling

Vreid.

Vreid rose from the ashes of the band Windir after the death of frontman Valfar. Vreid was formed by three former Windir members and a new guitarist, Ese, who was replaced by former Windir guitarist Strom in 2010, making the connection with Windir even stronger than before.

With ‘Wild North West’ the band pushed their vision to new heights. ‘Wild North West’ is not just a collection of songs but a concept album that developed alongside an entire movie.

Throughout eight chapters the listener will be taken on a journey deep into the mountains, to a dark place where the borders between reality and fantasy fade and where death is only one step behind you: The Wild North West.

Tracklist 1. Wild North West 2. Wolves at Sea 3. The Morning Red 4. Shadows of Aurora 5. Spikes of God 6. Dazed and Reduced 7. Into the Mountains 8. Shadowland Lineup Hváll - Bass, Keyboards (additional), Vocals (additional) Steingrim - Drums Sture Dingsøyr - Vocals, Guitars Strom - Guitars

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Trauma Death Metal band from Poland released the EP Acrimony on April 30, 2021.

Trauma - the legendary polish Death Metal band, more than 25th years on stage!

TRAUMA are back with a new release, which is the follow-up to their 2020 «Ominous Black» album.

The 4-song mini-album «Acrimony» was recorded in Traumatic Sound Studio in Elbląg during the same session as «Ominous Black» and produced by Mister and Wiesławscy Bros while

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it was mixed and mastered in Hertz Studio in Białystok, Poland (BEHEMOTH, VADER, HOUR OF PENANCE, BEHEADED) October 2018 - March 2019.

Once again the band collaborated with world-famous artist Mariusz Lewandowski (ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, BELL WITCH, PSYCROPTIC, SHRINE OF THE SERPENT) who designed the cover of «Acrimony».

1. Internal Sacrifice 2. The Godless Abyss 3. Reign of Terror 4. Reality When You Die (Gorefest cover) Lineup Arkadiusz «Mały» Sinica - Drums Jarosław «Mister» Misterkiewicz Guitars, Bass, Samples, Vocals (backing) Artur «Chudy» Chudewniak - Vocals

Devoured Death Metal band from Indonesia released the second Full-length album The Curse of Sabda Palon on April 30, 2021.

Devoured formed in 1998 and deals with Indonesian mythology and history in general.

The Curse of Sabda Palon is the album, self-released by the band, dedicated to the legend of Sabdo Palon. Sabdapalon was a priest who cursed the king of the land after he had converted to another religion, this is happened around 1478.

For fans of Old School Death Metal like Entombed, Nihilist, Carnage.

Tracklist 1. The Curse of Sabda Palon 2. Agenda Perputaran Jagad Raya 3. Hasut, Jerat, Bunuh 4. Ambigu Kuasa 5. Hutan Hujan Darah 6. Siasat Sang Maha Patih Paripurna 7. Sabda 13 (Gemuruh Air Puluhan Ribu Dosa) 8.

Dang Hyang Sabda Palon 9. Sirna Ilang Kertaning

Bumi 10. Dreaming in Red Lineup I Nyoman Sastrawan Vocals Safik Rosad - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Rahadian Aldy - Drums Ardian - Guitars Mal - Bass

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Nattverd Black Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album Vandring on April 30, 2021.

Formed in the late 90’s, NATTVERD is a band that has always preferred that its output be judged on purely musical merits, rather than on the past or future reputations of its extremely skilled and experienced lineup, and to this end the true identities of its musicians have always been kept private.

Titled «Vandring» it forms the final chapter of the Black Death trilogy which includes the 2019

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EP «Skuggen, and 2020’s full-length «Styggdom».

According to the band, whose lineup is composed of Ormr on Vocals and Guitars, Atyr on Guitars, Sveinr on Bass, Antichristian on Drums, and Serpentr on Guitars, «Vandring» is «a more dynamic album than last, because they have challenged the core that is NATTVERD, whilst at the same time staying true to the spirit that is the band.

The band have pushed some boundaries, which has resulted in more diverse tracks, that touch a lot on melancholy, and is even more aggression, with epic moments.

Tracklist 1. Det Bloer Paa Alt Som Spirer 2. Martyrer Av Kristus 3. Naar Taaken Fortaerer Alt 4. Med Rive Og Lime 5. I Moerket Slumrer Ravnen 6. Gudsmenn, Deres Svik Erkjenn 7. Det Hvisker I Veggene 8. Langt Langt Der Borte I Det Fjerne

Rituals Of The Dead Hand Black/Doom Metal band from Belgium released the second Fulllength album With Hoof and Horn on May 1, 2021.

In 2018 the world witnessed the reincarnation of the infamous ‘Buckriders’, various gangs of vile robbers who terrorized the borderlands of Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands in the late 18th century. Led by their menacing captain, they sold their souls to the Devil, rode by night on the backs of flying goats and mercilessly pillaged and burned the houses of godfearing Christians across the dim and bleak marshlands… The unholy Belgian three piece known as Rituals Of The Dead Hand, fully embraced this piece of dark folklore and translated it into a relentless attack of old school death/black metal on their debut ‘Blood Oath’, an album hailed by critics and

fans alike. Now, three years later, the shadows are moving again…

On their second offering ‘With Hoof And Horn’, Rituals Of The Dead Hand walks the same path of no-nonsense, old school extreme metal updated in a modern and contemporary atmosphere.

Again, the four lengthy tracks dive into the legends, myths and tales of the notorious robbers who were ultimately caught, tortured, trialed and executed for their horrific and blasphemous acts…

Truth or legend? Simple folklore or further proof that the Devil is always lurking in the dark, especially behind man’s most sacrilegious deeds? Whatever your answer is, with ‘With Hoof And Horn’, the Buckriders will ride again!

Tracklist 1. Praesemino 2. Sulphur 3. Inception 4. The Defiling Days 5. Vuurstaeck Lineup Lykaios - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards Isangrim - Drums, Keyboards, Samples Beleth - Bass, Vocals (backing)

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Lord Vampyr Symphonic Black Metal band from Italy released the sixth Full-length album The Vampire’s Legacy on May 7, 2021.

Italian Black/Gothic Metal legends LORD VAMPYR return 3 years after their heavy metallic-oriented «Death Comes Under The Sign Of The Cross», with their 6th album «The Vampire’s Legacy», which is a step forward for the band, as they are proud to compose and record their best album so far. «The Vampire’s Legacy» has a

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fresh and powerful production and at the same time is a return to the glorious roots, to their black metal sound. A vampyric black metal music, atmospheric, foggy, cold and gothic, melodic and romantic, coming directly from Transylvania and Dracula’s and vampires’ legacy.

For fans of Cradle Of Filth, Theatres Des Vampires, Moonspell, Rotting Christ, Vlad Tepes, Carpathian Forest, Ancient, Siebenbuergen, Notre Dame.

Tracklist 1. Towards Darkness 2. The Vampire’s Legacy 3. The Evil’s Origin (Strigoi Pt. II) 4. Mircalla 5. Wicked 6. Mater Vampirorum 7. In My Tenebra 8. Blood Ballad 9. The Village 10. Inno A Dracula Lineup Lord Vampyr - Vocals Seth666 - guitars Deathblast - guitars, lead guitars Hellvete - Bass/keyboards Aeternus - Drums

Seth Black Metal band from France released the sixth Full-length album La morsure du Christ on May 7, 2021.

French black metal pioneers SETH have once again lightened the flame of the early days with ‘La Morsure du Christ’, which can be seen as sequel to their acclaimed debut ‘Les blessures de l’âme’. Returning to their original sound, the band employs French alexandrine verse in their lyrics and choose a striking image as an album art. In a world moving further away from religion and spirituality, the demise of the Notre Dame symbolizes

the end of the Christian reign and the ultimate betrayal of God. From the ashes of the cathedral, a godless world will come into being.

Tracklist 1. La morsure du Christ 2. Métal noir 3. Sacrifice de sang 4. Ex-cathédrale 5. Hymne au vampire (Acte III) 6. Les océans du vide 7. Le triomphe de Lucifer

Lineup Esx Vnr - Bass Alsvid - Drums Heimoth - Guitars Saint Vincent - Vocals Drakhian - Guitars Pierre Le Pape - Keyboards

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Nordjevel Black Metal band from Norway released the EP Fenriir on May 7, 2021.

“Fenriir” is an EP that shows all sides of Nordjevel, from the very beginning, right up to where band are now.

Nordjevel had a few extra tracks which they decided early on in the recording process didn`t fit their up coming album, so the band decided to include

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two tracks, the title track “Fenriir”, along with “Rovdyr”, and make them exclusively available for this EP.

Tracklist 1. Fenriir 2. Gnawing the Bones 3. Rovdyr 4. Fallen Angel (Possessed cover) 5. Det Ror og Ror (Live at Brutal Assault 2019) Lineup DezeptiCunt - Bass Doedsadmiral - Vocals Dominator - Drums Destructhor - Guitars Valla - Guitars

Reality Grey Melodic Death Metal band from Italy released the third Full-length album Beneath This Crown on May 7, 2021.

REALITY GREY represent the vanguard of the Italian scene, starting in 2004 playing the so called «Melodic Death Metal» and on a quest to redefine and pioneer their own form of that genre and go beyond.

A tight five pieces able to break the Melodic Death Metal dogmas with a modern

hybrid of metal in its pure form, melody, brutality and complex, yet catchy, songwriting.

Tracklist 1. Legion (Intro) 2. Fade in Fear 3. Kings of Nothing 4. Preachers of Hatred 5. Daybreakers 6. Powerblast 7.

Multidimensional Hollow 8. The Fury

9. Dreaming 10. Reascent 11. Beneath This Crown 12. Indelible Stains 13. The Void Lineup Alex - Bass Anto - Guitars, Vocals (clean) Tommy - Vocals Albo - Guitars Francesco Inchingolo Drums

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Djevel Black Metal band from Norway released the seventh Full-length album Tanker som rir natten on May 14, 2021.

A new era, the third if you’d like, is here. Ten years ago, Djevel burst into the Black Metal scene with the debut «Dodssanger».

With fierce, raw energy and a breathtaking, ominous melodic touch, the trademark sound of the band had been placed. Now ten years into the story, the band has kept the sound and spirit but evolved through three stages of new musicians being added to the signature riffs of main composer

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Ciekals, developing the music to new heights, while still maintaining the sonic outlet that identifies Djevel. So here we enter the third era, where Ciekals and Faust (ex-Emperor, Blood Tsunami) have been joined by new vocalist/bassist Kvitrim (Vemod).

The raw feeling is still intact, and the acoustic elements have returned. But the eerie, haunting atmosphere has grown stronger, making it the most varied output from the band thus far.

Tracklist 1. Englene Som Falt Ned I Min Seng, Skal Jeg Sette Fri Med Brukne Vinger Og Torneglorier 2. Maanen Skal Være Mine Oine, Den Skinnende Stierne Mine Ben, Og Her Skal Jeg Vandre Til Evig Tid 3. En Krone For Et Oie Som Ser Alt, Tusind Torner For En Sonn Som Var Alt 4. Tanker Som Rir Natten 5. Naar Maanen Formorker Solen I En Dodelig Dans, Ber Jeg Moder Jord Opp Til En Siste Vals 6. Vinger Som Tok Oss Over En Brennende Himmel, Vinger Som Tok Oss Hjem

Ildfar Black Metal band from Norway released the first Full-length album Som vinden farer vil on May 14, 2021.

The solo-project Ildfar plays Black Metal reminiscent of the 2nd wave Black Metal of the Norwegian mid-90s.

Originally founded in 1994 by sole member Favn, the project was inactive for long periods of time and never officially released anything.

Songs were written, material recorded, but it was only in 2018 that Favn decided to take the next step and started rerecording the old songs, some of which dating back to the mid and late 90s, for the debut album «Som vinden farer vil».

Hence, it is no surprise that listening to

the album creates strong feelings of nostalgia in those of us who were around back then when Norwegian Black Metal was in its prime.

7. Under the Graves (of 1994) 8. Pesten 9. Behold The Throne 10. Lyset I Skumringen 11. Norges Haller

Tracklist 1. Taakeheimen 2. Under Sorte Vinger 3. The Last Dawn 4. Den Gamle Mannen Hvisker Mitt Navn 5. Som Vinden Farer Vil 6. Vandring

Lineup Favn - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards

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Killing Addiction Black Metal band from Death Metal band from United States released the second Full-length album Mind of a New God on June 1, 2021.

Killing Addiction is a band that originated in the Ocala, Florida, music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their style is based in politically and philosophically charged themes combined with musical influences that span Death Metal, Grindcore, and Thrash.

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an incredible work of brutal, technical and catchy old school Death Metal with a current sound that carries influences from bands like CARCASS, INCANTATION, GRAVE, MORBID ANGEL...

Tracklist: 1. Mind of a New God 2. As Utopia Burns 3. Prophecy Armageddon 4. Destroyer of Worlds 5. Lives Unworthy of Life 6. Dark Realm Atrocity 7. Condemned to Nothingness 8. The Chaos Older than Time 9. Altered at Birth Lineup Patrick Bailey - Bass, Vocals Chris Wicklein - Guitars Chris York - Drums Devon McDonough Guitars

Myronath Black Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Djevelkraft on June 4, 2021.

Myronath started out as a side project of Hellcommander Vargblod (H.V), sole member of Khaospath and Draugul – together with Bjarkan who also plays in various other bands; Ragnarok, Throne of Heresy, Kala, Blood of Serpents amongst others.

Djevelkraft it’s 56 minutes across 11 tracks of intense black metal, dark melodic passages and ritualistic atmosphere!

Featuring members from Ragnarok, ex-Amon Amarth, Khaospath and Serpesta. instills ‘Burn In Many Mirrors’ with t h e

elements necessary to sear itself into the fervent heart of the faithful.

Tracklist 1. Evil Unchained 2. She Who Dwells in Flames 3. Radix Diaboli 4. Effigy of Malediction 5. Till aska 6. The Sword of Satan 7. Evigt mörker 8. To Walk the Paths of the Dead 9. Reborn in Chaos 10. In Regno Tenebris

11. Beyond the Veil of Death Lineup Hellcommander Vargblod Bass, Vocals Bjarkan - Guitars Fredrik Andersson Drums Myrkheim - Guitars

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Inhuman Condition Death /Thrash Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album Rat God on June 4, 2021.

Florida death metal legend Terry Butler (OBITUARY, DEATH, MASSACRE, SIX FEET UNDER) has joined up with fellow former MASSACRE members Jeramie Kling (also of VENOM INC, THE ABSENCE, GOREGANG) on drums/vocals and Taylor Nordberg (THE

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ABSENCE, GOREGANG) on guitar to form INHUMAN CONDITION. The music for «Rat God» was written by Kling and Nordberg in the fall of 2019, when they were writing for what was to be a new MASSACRE album. The pair left the group the following year and teamed up with Terry Butler to form INHUMAN CONDITION to release the music.

Tracklist 1. Euphoriphobia 2. The Neck Step 3. Planetary Paroxysm 4. Killing Pace 5. Gravebound 6. Tyrantula 7. Rat God 8. Crown Of Mediocrity 9. Fait Accompli Lineup Jeramie Kling - vocals/drums Terry Butler - bass Taylor Nordberg - guitars

Winter Eternal Melodic Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the third Full-length album Land of Darkness on June 4, 2021.

Winter Eternal formed in 2011 in Athens, Greece but now located in United Kingdom. Thrillingly chilling yet breathtakingly emotional, Land of Darkness absolutely bristles with an ancient-days mysticism and melodicism that bring black metal’s majestic past into the present. So authentic is WINTER ETERNAL’s understanding of classic songcraft as well as sympathetic production, agonized and effervescent in equal measure, you’d be forgiven for thinking Land of Darkness was some lost relic released in 1997. However, again like its full-length predecessor but more so here, WINTER ETERNAL poignantly taps

into that wellspring of creation the aforementioned legends did and feeds his own lifeforce into it, flexing fluid chops along the way - always in service of The Song, of course - and returns with a ninesong/40-minute document of dreams both dark and beautiful.

Nodding to his forebears, Soulreaper reverentially concludes the album with a cover of Gates of Ishtar’s «Dawn of Flames.»

6. Faded to Silence 7. Isolation 8. Shaped by Grief 9. Dawn of Flames (Gates of Ishtar cover) Lineup Soulreaper - Vocals, Guitars, Bass

Tracklist 1. Crossind the Blackest Skies 2. Land of Darkness 3. The Illusive Wings of Death 4. Lord of False Reality 5. Crown of Stars

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A n c i e n t Wisdom Atmospheric Black Metal band from Sweden released the fifth Full-length album A Celebration in Honor of Death on June 4, 2021.

It has been 17 years, but finally the time has come for the reaper to wield his scythe once again. Ancient Wisdom is the musical alter ego of Marcus E. Norman, veteran of the Swedish black metal scene and member of Naglfar and Bewitched.

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Honor of Death, the fifth full length album from Ancient Wisdom and their comeback after such a long time, displays a dismal and more sinister side of this Swedish entity that has been spreading its darkness since 1992. 7 tracks of the purest death worship, draped in haunting melodies and an atmosphere reeking of broken coffins and graveyard dust.

Tracklist 1. Haec Est Mors Secunda 2. Breaking the Circle of Life 3. Architect of Death - Laudamus Te

4. The Coronation 5. Those Who Do Not Exist 6. And God Saw 7. Towards Your Destruction Lineup Vargher - All instruments, Vocals

Crypta plus signficant extreme Death Metal band from Brazil and black metal elements, to / Netherlands released the first create a sound of their own.

Full-length album Echoes Of The Soul on June 11, 2021.

Formed in June 2019, the four- Lineup piece line up consists of vocalist Luana Dametto - Drums and bassist Fernanda Lira and Tainá Bergamaschi - Guitars Luana Dametto on drums, both Sonia Anubis - Guitars former members thrash metal Fernanda Lira - Vocals, Bass frontrunners NERVOSA, plus supremely talented guitarists Sonia Anubis (Cobra Spell, ExBurning Witches) and Taina Bergamaschi (Ex-Hagbard). These four powerful women enforce a heightened level of potency and experience from their successful past and current projects, enhancing influences from both classic and modern death metal genres,

Tracklist 1. Awakening 2. Starvation 3. Possessed 4. Death Arcana 5. Shadow Within 6. Under the Black Wings 7. Kali 8. Blood Stained Heritage 9. Dark Night of the Soul 10. From the Ashes

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Gorgon Black Metal band from France released the sixth Full-length album Traditio Satanae on June 11, 2021.

Pioneers of the Black Metal scene in France, GORGON was formed in 1991 in the south of France and spearheaded the second wave of French Black Metal along with bands such as MUTIILATION, STREGOICA or MALEFICUM ORGIA. Following the 2019 release of their comeback album The Veil of Darkness, the cursed phalanx is now delivering it’s new offering. Consisting of 11 tracks, of the most brutally savage, tempestuous and virulent Black Metal music.

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In creeping dimness, the band’s core has birthed their most aggressive body of work, yet. Utterly and undeniably compelling, hardhitting riffs and heinous vocals. You deserve this punishment, may your ordeal be painful.

Tracklist 1. Blood of Sorcerer 2. Death Was Here 3.

Entrancing Cemetery 4. Let Me See Behind 5. Sacrilegious Confessions

6. My Filth Is Worth Your Purity 7. Traditio Satanae 8. As Dawn Will Be Slow to Come 9. The Long Quest 10. Scorched Earth Operation 11. At the Beginning There Was Hate Lineup Christophe Chatelet - Guitars, Vocal, Bass

Path of Destiny B l a c k Symphonic Melodic Death/Black Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album The Seed of All Evil on June 11, 2021.

Five years after “Dreams In Splendid Black”, PATH OF DESTINY return with a new album, which again needed a long ripening process. That’s why it presents the German melodic death metal outfit more diverse and more mature than ever before. All ten songs on “The Seed Of All Evil” feature an ominous character, because they mirror the society in a way that makes it even impossible to take a close look into the mirror itself. The anthemic opener ‘The Division Of A Spiral Synergy’ immediately

shows the strengths of the band: melodies that are there to stay and a thrilling heaviness. The midtempo track ‘Erased By Light’ battles its way through darkness in an epic manner, while ‘Endbringer’ is a blast beat driven speed attack. The furious ‘March Of The Antichrist’ lives up to its name and creates a pitch black atmosphere.

Tracklist 1. The Division of a Spiral Synergy 2. Necromantic Storm 3. Erased By Light 4. Endbringer 5. As Stars Collide 6. From Heaven They Fall 7. Kingdom of God 8. March of the Antichrist 9. Wave Goodbye to Sanity 10. The Crown of Creation Lineup Christian Reinhard - Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing) Christoph Silge - Bass, Orchestrations Alexander Helfer - Guitars Sebastian Schaffert - Vocals Jonas Pfeiffer - Drums

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This Ending Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden released the fourth Fulllength album Needles of Rust on June 11, 2021.

This Ending consists of members from bands such as A Canorous Quintet, October Tide, Darkened & Mörk Gryning.

Formed in 2006 by the same members that was previously A Canorous Quintet.

(ACQ disbanded in 1998).

Overall the lyrical themes for the Needles of rust album deal with different kind of nightmare

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scenarios. Some lyrics are loosely based on real events and things that has happened over the world. Some are just about nightmares as an overall phenomenon. All lyrics are up for personal interpretation.

Tracklist 1. My Open Wound 2. Annihilate 3. Embraced by the Night

4. Eclipse of the Dead 5. A New Plight 6. Needles of Rust 7. Devastate 8. Hell to Hell 9. The Hunted Lineup Linus Nirbrant - Guitars Mårten Hansen - Vocals Linus Pettersson - Bass Peter Nagy - Guitars, Drums

Dark Vision Death/Black Metal band from Greece released the second Fulllength album Ianos on June 25, 2021.

Hellenic black metallers Dark Vision return with their first full-length album after two decades. «Ianos» revolve around the threshold of their musical transition, featuring a stormy black metal with death elements and lyrics about the struggle of the soul, fragments of nightmares and dystopic visions of the past and future.

Lineup Giannis K. - Drums, Vocals (backing) Mark - Guitars, Vocals Frag - Bass Defiant - Guitars, Vocals (backing)

Tracklist 1. Ignis 2. Absurdity in Abyss 3. Cosmic Storm 4. Asylum 5.

Of Unknown Artist 6. Defile the Pure 7. Sulfur Vision 8. Deathwish (Christian Death cover) 9. Gruesome Tide 10. Keep

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Eye of Purgatory Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album The Lighthouse on June 18, 2021.

Swedish death metal mastermind Rogga Johansson has displayed a penchant for infusing classic style melodies in his kind of death metal which is most evident in his eponymous band and also to an extent in Revolting and Paganizer. It’s reminiscent of the timeless bands such as Edge of Sanity, Desultory, early Cemetary, early Tiamat, Pan.Thy.Monium and others where they added a

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dimension without diluting the heaviness. Rogga’s bands are known to be fast and hard-hitting and such melodic depth counterbalances the pummelling demeanour and adds rare emotive appeal. The music straddles the conventional HM-2 death metal and the more melodic side of it brilliantly, keeping it tasteful and not oversaturating it with too much of either. Teaming up with members of Ribspreader and Venom Inc., he brings to life his vision of classic Swedish death metal with its inherent crunchy heaviness and soulripping melodies. Albums like these are extremely rare in these times especially ones with genuine emotive quality and conviction.

Tracklist: 1. And from the Fog...

2. The Lighthouse 3. Fornever to Awaken 4. Carved in a Stone Bleeding 5. Pieces of a Fading World 6. They Silently Await 7. Where Slowly Life Fades 8. Rotting Pathways 9. Rebirther Lineup Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals Taylor Nordberg (Ribspreader) – Drums, Lead Guitars, Keyboards Jeramie Kling (Venom Inc.) – Bass

Tragedy and Triumph Melodic Death/Viking Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Where Mountains Rise and Hearts Fall on June 18, 2021.

Tragedy And Triumph is a long-kept project by Marius Berendsen (Mallevs Maleficarvm, Antares, ExThyrgrim), which has been in the works since 2017 and is now being unleashed on mankind with the debut «Where Mountains Rise and Hearts Fall».

On this album, they present themselves in the best Viking/Melodic Death Metal manner and thus consistently powerful, groovy and of course correspondingly melodic. Stylistically the band mentions, not

unjustly, influences from bands like Bathory and Amon Amarth, and still shows variety and experimentation on these 11 songs.

Tracklist 1. Heldengrab 2. I, Triumphant 3. Five Arrows 4.

Where Fires March Victorious 5. Beneath the Howling Gate

6. Of Mountains and Wardrums 7.

In Pride and Sorrow 8. Ride for Revenge 9. Hymn for a Newborn Star 10. Where Mountains Rise and Hearts Fall 11. Lost War Lineup Marius Berendsen - All instruments Raphael Weller - Vocals Sebastian Auer - Guitars

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Macabre Decay Old-school Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Into Oblivion on June 18, 2021.

Macabre Decay was founded in Söderhamn, Sweden 2014 from the ashes of Afterlife.

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Lineup Fredrik Gunnarsson - Guitars Henka Andersson - Vocals Henke Edlund - Bass Sami Mäki - Guitars (lead) Martin Knutar - Drums

Tracklist 1. Icon 2. Impenitent Homicide 3. Into Oblivion 4. Utterly Helpless 5. The Becoming of Art 6. Altered Flesh 7. Wall of Bones 8. Last Breath 9. Beauty in Carnage 10. Kräks, förruttnelse och våld

Tristwood Industrial Death/Black Metal band from Austria re-released the third Full-length album Dystopia et Disturbia on June 18, 2021.

As Tristwood celebrates 20 years their third LP «Dystopia Et Disturbia» finally gets a CD version with a massive amount of 9 bonus tracks, recorded between 2001 and 2007. Originally released as a free download in December 2010, this final version not only features the 2011 mix and master by Deimon but also comes with an all-new cover, layout, and liner notes, limited to 50 copies worldwide.

Handnumbered and signed.

«Dystopia et Disturbia» is the third album and fifth release of the avant-garde extreme metal band Tristwood. The album, originally distributed for free in 2010 by Romanian netlabel Asiluum, is now officially released for the first time as a CD and via Bandcamp, making it accessible to a wider audience.

Tracklist 1. Dystopia Et Disturbia 2. Volcanus 3. Irreversible (Monument VII)

4. Terra Incognita 5. Chamaelicon Bizarre 6. The Black Room 7. The New Acid Bath 8. Storm Code (exclusive CD Bonus Track from the Dystopia Sessions) 9. Jythand (2004) 10. Symbiosis 11. Progress Chaos Primitivity 12. Insignificance 13. The Sanctuary Of The Darkest Aberrations 14. Cultic Desecration Of Darkness 15. A Stream Of Deadly Shadows 16. Proto - Vortex 17. Lava

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Latest releases Decayed new album Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons delivers a mostly raw, buzzing quality to the rhythms that features utterly straightforward and truly one-note tremolo-styled riffing firmly entrenched in the crossover area between the first and second-wave black metal movements, containing that fiery, frost-riddled atmosphere while containing the rocking energies and rhythms that manage to merge these two styles together quite well, and given the genesis of their creation it’s quite appropriate to mix together these styles.

Decayed Old School Black Metal band from Portugal released the fourteenth Full-length album Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons on June 18, 2021.

The band started in August 1990 under the name DECAY when JA (vox/guitars) and Nuno (guitars) decided to start a band with real goals. The first official release was the demo «Thus Revelead» from January 1992; the debut album released in January 1994.

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The new album from 2021. It was supposed to be recorded and released in 2020 to celebrate 30 years of Decayed but due to the pandemic... it got delayed.

Now it has been unleashed upon mankind!

Decayed have brought a rather charging and damaging attack that has been their main basis throughout their thirty years of existence that began nearly at the birth of the genre itself. With the power-trio having honed their material into a coherent whole.

Tracklist: 1. Damned Souls (Intro) 2. Rise of the Undead 3. Condemned to Hell 4. Dead Choir Hails (The Birth) 5. Nocturnal Creatures 6. Grim Prophecies 7. Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons 8. Cold and Dark 9. Perpetual Slumber 10. Spell of the Gorgons 11. Manitou (Venom cover) 12. Fallen Angels (Outro) 13. Ritos De Iniciação Lineup J.A. - Guitars, Vocals Vulturius - Vocals, Bass GR - Drums

Darkthrone Black Metal band from Norway released the nineteenth Full-length album Eternal Hails...... on June 25, 2021.

Things change, times change, people change, and yet even when sounding fresh and new and delivering just five tracks in 45 minutes on their 19th album, Eternal Hails, the Norwegian black metal legends remain defiantly and eternally Darkthrone.

The album is an exploration of the very finest vintage metal and the best of

doom, all delivered in the Tracklist unmistakable darkthrone 1. His Master’s Voice style, whilst also 2. Hate Cloak incorporating instruments 3. Wake of the Awakened such as the moog to 4. Voyage to a North Pole further expand upon these Adrift soundscapes.

5. Lost Arcane City of Uppakra Lineup Fenriz - Drums, Vocals (additional), Bass, Guitars (additional) Nocturno Culto - Vocals, Guitars, Bass

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Vulture Lord Black/Thrash Metal band from Norway released the second Full-length album Desecration Rite on June 20, 2021.

Eighteen years after the release of their first full length album, Profane Prayer, the legendary Vulture Lord have returned with its caustic, violent successor!

Desecration Rite is an unholy assault of malice and malevolence, a

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shocking affirmation of Vulture Lord’s dedication to the dark.

Dripping with spite and venom, a hatred you can taste, the songs that combine to form the Desecration Rite are hymns of annihilation, an adoration of absolute destruction.

Tracklist: 1. Glorification of the Dethronation 2. Bloodbound Militia 3. Stillborn Messiah 4. The Vulture Lord 5. Diabolical Intervention 6. Prepare the Coffin 7. Beneficial Martyrdom 8. Burning the Kingdom of God 9. Perverting the Bible Lineup Sorath Northgrove - Vocals Uruz - Drums Enzifer - Guitars Malphas - Guitars

Pestilence Death Metal band from Netherlands released the ninth Full-length album Exitivm on June 25, 2021.

A new album, on a new label armed with a whole new line-up and a new dynamic: no matter what, PESTILENCE or more specifically their maestro Patrizio Mameli are like the phoenix, rising from the ashes, over and over again. Three years after ‘Hadeon’, the band and their totally revamped line-up – besides former Dew Scented and Creepmime Joost van der Graaf on bass and Bleeding Gods’ Rutger van Noordenburg on lead guitar, former God Dethroned Michiel van der Plicht joined on drums last year – not only prove to be worthy of its golden legacy but actually deliver with ‘Exitivm’ what is

probably their best incarnation in over a decade, with the kind of instantly recognizable sound that will immediately make all ‘Testimony Of The Ancients’ fans drooling with anticipation while proving they’re not a nostalgia act but are living in the now.

Tracklist 1. In Omnibvs (Intro) 2. Morbvs Propagationem 3. Deificvs 4. Sempiternvs 5. Internicionem 6. Mortifervm

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Dominatvi Svbmissa 8. Pericvlvm Externvm 9. Inficiat 10. Exitivm 11. Immortvos 12. Personatvs Mortem (Outro) Lineup Patrick Mameli - Guitars (lead), Vocals Joost van der Graaf - Bass Rutger van Noordenburg Guitars (lead) Michiel van der Plicht Drums

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Suidakra Melodic Death Metal band from Germany released the fifteenth Full-length album Wolfbite on June 25, 2021.

Suidakra started as Gloryfication and recorded one demo, known as «XIII» in 1994. Back then, the band played a death/ thrash hybrid, and Arkadius Antonik only played guitar.

Later in 1994 they changed the name of the band to Suidakra, which is Arkadius spelled backwards. The band’s name is often typeset SuidAkrA. On their early albums,

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Suidakra’s music was in a melodic black/death metal style with strong folk and medieval influences. Over time, the black metal asthetics began to fade out and they settled into a melodic death/Celtic folk sound. On the albums «Signs for the Fallen» and in particular «Command to Charge», the folk elements were reduced and a more straightforward melodic death metal style could be heard, but starting with «Caledonia» Suidakra moved back to their signature style.

Tracklist 1. A Life in Chains 2. The Inner Wolf 3. Darcanian Slave 4. Faoladh 5. Crossing Over 6. Vortex of Carnage 7. Resurgence 8. Redemption 9. A Shrine for the Ages

Hiraes Melodic Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Solitary on June 25, 2021.

Risen from the ashes of the split-up Dawn of Disease, German-based formation HIRAES have just started their journey to take their monumental Melodic Death Metal out into the world.

The band name is derived from the Welsh word «hiraeth», which stands for the nostalgia and yearning for lost places of the past or a home that maybe never was.

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Shadows Break 2. Under Fire 3. Grain of Sand 4. 1000 Lights 5. Eyes over Black 6. Outshine 7. Solitary 8. Strangers 9. Running out of Time

Lineup Christian Wösten - Bass Mathias Blässe - Drums Oliver Kirchner - Guitars Lukas Kerk - Guitars Britta Görtz - Vocals

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The Absence Melodic Death Metal band from United States released the fifth Full-length album Coffinized on June 25, 2021.

Formed in 2003, The Absence have survived through the ebb and flow of the metal community. The anticipated new album includes 11 blistering new tracks.

“Coffinized” was produced and engineered by Kling and Nordberg and mixed by Kling. The album was mastered by Jonas Kjellgren (Immortal, Overkill, Scar Symmetry) at Sweden’s Black Lounge Studios.

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Conspiracy and more.

Lineup Jamie Stewart - Vocals Mike Leon - Bass Jeramie Kling - Drums Taylor Nordberg - Guitars

Tracklist 1. Coffinized 2. Future Terminal 3. Choirs of Sickness 4. Radiant Devastation 5. Cathedral Dawn 6. Black Providence 7. Discordia 8. Treacherous 9. The Consuming Nocturne 10. Aperture Expands 11. Faith in Uncreation

Requiem Death Metal band from Switzerland released the eighth Full-length album Collapse into Chaos on June 25, 2021.

Swiss death metal veterans REQUIEM are back with their 8th studio album «Collapse Into Chaos», and serve uncompromising and brutal oldschool death metal galore!

Since 1997, or for roughly 25 years, REQUIEM is a constant, reliable underground death metal force known for their relentless, authentic, and classic approach in relation to their music and outspoken lyrics.

Having spent countless hours together on European tours with bands like Dismember, Vader, Belphegor and Vital Remains, amongst many others, and festival shows with all the other wellknown names, REQUIEM know exactly who they are without l e a v i n g

anything to chance.

«Collapse Into Chaos» follows their very own way of fierce, blastspeed induced and unapologetic old-school death metal.

«Collapse Into Chaos» is a sonic reflection of the current, past and hypothetical future state of this world, the decreasing worth of a human life, the ever-changing biased use of media outlets and the inevitable approach towards the brink of extinction.

Tracklist 1. Fade into Emptiness 2. Collapse into Chaos 3. Mind Rape 4. Down to Zero 5. All Hail the New God 6. Only Empty Words Remain 7.

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Mankind Never Learns 9. Ivory Morals 10. Out of Sight, Out of Mind 11. New World Dystopia 12. World Downfall 2020 (Outro) Lineup Philipp Klauser - Guitars Michi Kuster - Vocals Reto Crola - Drums Ralf W. Garcia - Bass Matthias Schiemann - Guitars

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At the Gates Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden released the seventh Full-length album The Nightmare of Being on July 2, 2021.

AT THE GATES - A genredefining act of the Swedish melodic death metal scene. The band around Tomas «Tompa» Lindberg was formed in 1990 and disbanded six years later. But they never really did a proper farewell tour. Therefore they rejoined forces in 2007 for the «Flames Of The End» tour.

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into them, and so they ended up being back ever since!

“The Nightmare Of Being” was mixed and produced with Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Amon Amarth, Opeth, Kreator, etc.) and the featured 10 songs showcase AT THE GATES at their most elaborated, striking and compelling!

The concept album focuses on the realization of your own mortality, nihilism and pessimistic philosophies.

Tracklist 1. Spectre of Extinction 2. The Paradox 3. The Nightmare of Being 4. Garden of Cyrus 5. Touched by the White Hands of Death 6. The Fall into Time 7. Cult of Salvation 8. The Abstract Enthroned 9. Cosmic Pessimism 10. Eternal Winter of Reason Lineup Jonas Björler - Bass Adrian Erlandsson - Drums Tomas Lindberg - Vocals Martin Larsson - Guitars Jonas Stålhammar - Guitars

Taake Black Metal band from Norway released the Compilation Avvik on July 2, 2021.

Over the past months, Norwegian Black Metal icons TAAKE have released a series of 10» splits with three different bands (WHOREDOM RIFE, DEATHCULT and HELHEIM), on three different labels, and, as always happens in the case of vinyl releases, fans have been asking for a CD version.

On the 2nd July, they released a limited edition Digipak CD, along with a Digital version, of the six TAAKE tracks from the series, which include a very special acoustic version of “Nattestid ser Porten vid I”, acknowledged by Black Metal fans the world-over as not only a

classic TAAKE track, but a classic of the whole genre itself.

The release is titled «Avvik», which translated means «anomaly» or «deviation», which makes it a very appropriate title given that the tracks from the splits would never really fit into any of TAAKE’s own releases. You could, of course, also argue that TAAKE mastermind Hoest has always ploughed a very individual furrow with his Helnorsk Svartmetall sound, standing outside the mainstream of Black Metal, and therefore making the choice of title doubly apt.

Tracklist 1. Ubeseiret 2. Heartland (The Sisters of Mercy cover) 3. Nattestid ser Porten vid I (acoustic) 4. Slagmark 5. Ravnajuv (Darkthrone cover) 6. Brotne Bein og Mannefall 7. Ein Baat i Foss Lineup Hoest - All instruments, Vocals

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Diabolizer Death Metal band from Turkey released the first Full-length album Khalkedonian Death on July 2, 2021.

Turkish torchbearers of diabolical abomination Diabolizer finally back with their debut album «Khalkedonian Death»! 8 tracks of unrelenting and savage Death Metal raids that will just leave you mouthwatering for more!

For fans of Centurian, Severe Torture, Hate eternal, Deicide.

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Diabolizer was brought to life in 2012 in Kadıköy, Istanbul by Mustafa (guitar) and Aberrant (drums) with the desire to perform a faster, more aggressive and more diabolic Death Metal than their other bands.

Tracklist 1. Dawn of Obliteration 2. Maelstroms of Abhorrence 3. Cloaked in an Aura of Madness 4. Mayhemic Darkness and Possessed Visions 5. Sulphurous Vengeance 6. Bringers of Khalkedonian Death 7. Spearfuck the Throes of Treason 8. Perishing in His Oceans of Blood

Mayhem Black Metal band from Norway released the EP Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando on July 9, 2021.

Mayhem return this year with an EP called “Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando” that presents the band in a way that has never been heared before! The lords of darkness have dug deep and reflected their influences to create a musical odyssey that shows them multifaceted in several ways. For this goal, cover versions of bands like Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni and Ramones were chosen, which in typical MAYHEM manner impressively fit into their bursting and darkenened s o u n d .

Nevertheless, MAYHEM would not be MAYHEM, if this musical creation would do without own composed songs. In addition to named cover versions, a brand new track called “Voces Ab Alta” was recorded to continue the musical journey alongside previously released tracks “Black Glass Communion” and “Everlasting Dying Flame”, which were used as bonus tracks for the 2019 album “Daemon”.

Tracklist 1. Voces ab Alta 2.

Black Glass Communion 3.

Everlasting Dying Flame 4. In Defense of Our Future (Discharge cover) 5.

Hellnation (Dead Kennedys cover) 6. Only Death (Rudimentary Peni cover) 7. Commando (Ramones cover) Lineup Teloch - Guitars Necrobutcher - Bass Attila Csihar - Vocals Ghul - Guitars Hellhammer - Drums

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Vincent Crowley Black Metal band from United States released the first Fulllength album Beyond Acheron on July 9, 2021.

After 30 years of fronting Black / Death Metal underground alongside veterans ACHERON, lead vocalist Vincent Crowley is pursuing a solo career.

This new musical entity veers to a different dark and macabre path, being influenced by all kinds of metal genres.

“Beyond Acheron” was recorded at Sonic Lounge Studios with Joe Viers as the producer. This 8-track album has a dark sound

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while maintaining a great production.

“Beyond Acheron” is a conceptional album that climbs through the ladder of death. From beginning to end it takes the listener on a ghastly journey with sombre tales of doom, casting a Poeesque shadow.

Tracklist 1. Intro: Beyond Acheron 2. Where No Light Shines 3. My Eternal Vow 4. La Muerte 5. Bring Forth The Dead 6. Masquerade Du Macabre 7. Farewell (At Death’s Door) 8. Outro Lineup Vincent Crowley - Vocals Art Taylor - Guitars Ryan Arter - Drums

Sepiroth Death Metal band from Netherlands released the third Full-length album Condemned to Suffer on July 9, 2021.

Sepiroth is a brutal oldschool Death Metal band from Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The band has been founded in 2003 by drummer Damiën and guitarist Chris. In 2007 the band released their first 3-track e.p. ‘Dying For Hatred’ followed in 2011 by their first full length ‘Breaking The Codes Of Silence’. In 2015 the band released their second full length album ‘Uninvolved’. The album was a concept about the UN forces witnessing the horrors of the civil war in former Yugoslavia. With the current

line-up, Sepiroth wants to take their crushing Death Metal to the stages of world with more power and strength than ever before.

For fans of: Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Vomitory, Sinister.

Tracklist 1. 45362971N126375544E 2. Embedded Defects 3. Agonizing Subjection 4. Six Times a Charm 5. Condmened to Suffer 6. Destined Between the Eyes

7. Psuedoscience 8.

Selective Apocalypse 9.

Pulmarary Barotrama 10. River of Perdition Lineup Damiën Kerpentier Drums Christian Both Guitars Vince den Breejen Guitars Bruno Bakker - Bass Nico Munnik - Vocals

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Night Crowned Melodic Black/Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Hädanfärd on July 9, 2021.

Carried with depth through 9 atmospheric tracks and supported in a vivid way by individual, written down interpretations and explanations of K. Romlin, «Hädanfärd» is an infernal, bleak monolith of an album, one that will most likely see Night Crowned step out as one of Sweden’s best kept blackened death metal secrets.

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as one of the best releases of the year, Night Crowned took the heavy scene by storm with their debut studio album, «Impius Viam» (2020, Noble Demon). Consisting of former and current members of legendary acts such as Dark Funeral, Nightrage and Cipher System and with a musical vision as clear as it is haunting and disturbing, the band created with their latest album an imposing work full of rage, melancholy and pure destruction, offering a true reawakening of the sounds dormant from the most influential acts and masterpieces of the Scandinavian ‘90s.

Tracklist 1. Nattkrönt 2. Rex Tenebrae 3. Fjättrad 4. Ett gravfäst öde 5. Hädanfärd 6. Gudars skymning 7. Människans förfall 8. Grått & ödelagt 9. Enslingen

Chestcrush Blackened Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the first Full-length album Vdelygmia on July 14, 2021.

Vdelygmia” is the second release and first full-length by Edinburgh’s Chestcrush, the solo project by Evangelos Vasilakos.

The Greek-born musician has recently published his first demo that received praises from underground metal community and was then physically released by two European labels and sold out quickly afterwards. On this demo, Chestcrush presented their unique and crushing style of Blackened Death Metal and Grindcore, influenced by raging Old School Black Metal and a shattering Sludge / Post Metal.

And now the time has come for the world to witness “Vdelygmia” in its utterly terrifying yet fascinating might.

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“Vdelygmia” Chestcrush reduces melodic influence on a necessary amount, and sets its focus on total sonic annihilation of the listener with vast and severe arsenal of sound weaponry of carpet bombing blast beats, napalm burning guitar riffs and blood chilling war cries.

Tracklist 1. The Digester 2. Different Shepherd Same Sheep 3. Grudge 4. Theocracyst 5. Burden 6. Let Them Crawl 7. Skullcrush 8. Vothrodoxia 9. Vaptizetai O Doulos

Lineup Evangelos Vasilakos – Compositions, guitars, bass, lyrics, programming Thomas Blanc – Vocals (Helioss, Celestial Swarm among others) Krzysztof Klingbein – Drums (Vader, Hate, Deathspawn among others)

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Paradise Lost Doom/Death/Gothic Metal band from United Kingdom released the live album At the Mill on July 16, 2021.

33 years after their inception, England’s PARADISE LOST are not only one of the most influential metal bands in the world and founders of the gothic metal genre, but also among the most varied acts. From death and doom to catchy synth pop hymns, the quintet from Yorkshire never hesitated to cross boundaries and yet always stayed true to themselves.

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After a spectacular #2 spot in the German album charts with their latest chef-d’oeuvre ‘Obsidian’, the band now unveils a live album consisting of 16 tracks that cover nearly every style and big hit from their 3-decade-long career.

Tracklist 1. Widow 2. Fall from Grace 3. Blood and Chaos 4. Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us 5. Gothic 6. Shadowkings 7. One Second 8. Ghosts 9. The Enemy 10. As I Die 11. Requiem 12. No Hope in Sight 13. Embers Fire 14. Beneath Broken Earth 15. So Much Is Lost 16. Darker Thoughts

Necrogod Death Metal band from Sweden / Costa Rica released the first Fulllength album In Extremis on July 23, 2021.

Necrogod is the perfect expression of atavistic death metal brutality spearheaded by none other than Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Revolting, Eye of Purgatory) who has teamed up with the revered The Master Butcher (Morbid Stench, Insepulto) to make this feat possible. It’s a product of careful deliberation and years of experience, with Rogga Johansson laying down the heaviest music of possibly his entire career and The Master Butcher just taking things to another level with his barrage of unearthly roars. This is the culmination of death metal mastery, a groovy, pummeling record that imbibes the best elements of Swedish and American death metal scenes to create a truly

fearsome record without parallel.

What’s surprising is that despite the face-blasting aggression and unbridled vocal delivery, the music is well-rounded with thought-out structures, tempo changes, build-ups, solos and even traces of sick melodies. Clearly a marked deviation from the usual Rogga Johansson fare that one is acquainted with, this is some next level old school brutality that will knock you flat and will have you crawling back for more.

Same Again 5. The Obsessive and the Deranged 6. In the Reign of Gore 7. When Madness Has Taken Control 8. Moribund 9. Transcending to Persist Lineup Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Bass, Drum programming The Master Butcher - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Bringers of Blasphemy 2. In Mortal Confinement 3.

The Brutal Path (Straight to Hell) 4. Remain the

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Netherbird Symphonic/Melodic Black Metal band from Sweden released the sixth Full-length album Arete on July 30, 2021.

NETHERBIRD has blurred the boundaries between black, death and other extreme strains of heavy metal since 2004. The band was founded by likeminded individuals among the Swedish metal scene with the intentions of creating harsh metal while drawing inspiration from black and death metal without any regards, or limitations, to

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the structures surrounding each respective sub-genre.

Tracklist 1. Âme damnée 2. Towers of the Night 3. Void Dancer 4. Infernal Vistas 5. Carnal Pentiment 6. Mystes 7. The Silence of Provenance 8. Atrium of the Storm

Lineup Bizmark (PNA) - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals Nephente - Vocals Tobias Jacobsson - Guitars (lead) Micke André - Bass, Vocals Fredrik Andersson - Drums

Ondfødt Black Metal band from Finland released the third Full-length album Norden on July 30, 2021.

Ondfødt return with their 3rd full length album «Norden», 2 years after their 2nd album “Dödsrikets Kallelse” was released. With Norden (which was crafted during 2019), the band has managed too develop their sound drastically and all for the better.

Magnificence drums who pound right through your speakers entangled in a blasphemous dance with the guitars who provide a strong and straight forward Black Metal sound! The vocals are as unholy as they should be and the bass completes the music with the right dose of power. Every song is a pure offering to

the one true divinity, which is the eternal darkness.

Norden is an album that delivers with No Compromise what so ever and is a must have for every Black Metal and Metal fan without a doubt. Pure Scandinavian Black Metal is what you can expect on this album!!!

Lineup Owe Inborr - Drums, Guitars, Bass, Vocals Juuso Englund - Guitars

Tracklist 1. Höstdröm 2. Höstfurstin 3. Han bor i skuggona 4. Gifti från Tadjin 5. Fyri do dör 6. Mörkri 7. Ti dödas viso 8. Natten 9. Norden

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Ingested Slam/Brutal Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the sixth Fulllength album The Surreption II on July 30, 2021.

‘The Surreption’ was originally released in 2011 as the follow up album to debut ‘Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering’.

Re-recorded in its entirety, this is a pulverising reminder of how Ingested’s material has stood the test of time, cementing the band ever more firmly at the forefront

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of the UKDM scene.

Tracklist 1. Crowing the Abomination 2. Decline 3. The Consequence 4. A Coming Unperceived 5. This Disgusting Revelation 6. Castigation and Rebirth 7. Manifesting Obscenity 8. 22 9. Kingmaker 10. The Alpha and Omega

Lineup Lyn Jeffs - Drums Sean Hynes - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Sam Yates - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Jay Evans - Vocals

Dantalion Black Metal band from Spain released the eighth Fulllength album Time to Pass Away on July 31, 2021.

The Galician black metal pioneers Dantalion are back with “Time to Pass Away”, their eighth full-length studio album and, probably, their best work in years, eight intense tracks that mean an unquestionably come-back to their primitive black metal sound, rough, powerful and really really strong...

An album recorded among sanitary lockdowns that also caused the return of Sanguinist to the role of vocalist, in which the band oozes pure negativity and bad vibes, true darkness and despair from the chosen illustration as cover art done by the Russian artist Vergvoktre

to the absolutely obscure artwork developed by el dios perezoso, or this brilliant production done, as usual, by Brais Barreiro...

Tracklist 1. The Call 2. The Relentless Shadow 3. Gate to an Eternal Doom 4. Time to Close the Circle 5.

Constant Mourning Process 6. The Mischievous Faces 7. From Suffering to Oblivion 8. From Consciousness to the Grave

Lineup Naemoth - Drums Netzja - Guitars Sanguinist - Vocals Vorgh - Guitars natnoF - Bass

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Vassago Black/Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Storm of Satan on August 1, 2021.

Sweden’s reputation in the world of underground black and death metal is a well-earned one.

Known for stellar musicianship, consistent quality and distinct production, it should be no surprise that many ancient Swedish hordes are still as potent today as ever. Formed in the late 1980s, VASSAGO released two demos in the mid-90s before recording their blasphemous 1999 full length KNIGHTS FROM HELL. The

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group established an identity with Tracklist: revered fellow countrymen LORD 1. Darkness of Satan BELIAL, sharing several members. 2. Elite of Satan While LORD BELIAL has earned a 3. Evil of Satan stellar reputation for their sweeping, 4. Fire of Satan melancholic grandiosity, VASSAGO 5. Grind of Satan approaches black and death metal from 6. Mayhem of Satan a maleficent angle. With biting, vicious 7. Metal of Satan intensity that calls to mind fellow 8. Sign of Satan northern gods IMPALED NAZARENE 9. Storm of Satan or NIFELHEIM, VASSAGO offers a 10. War of Satan full-scale attack of warlike staccato and a penchant for the disgusting and evil. Lineup STORM OF SATAN is thematically Pepa Andersson - Guitars, dominated by a pure worship of Satan; Bass a true devotional homage to the literal Micke Backelin - Vocals, essence of black metal art.

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Grisly Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Salting the Earth on August 3, 2021.

This swedish band led

by Rogga Johansson and featuring Håkan Stuvermark (WOMBBATH), that plays a catchy, melodic and heavy Death Metal with influences in the vein of DISMEMBER, EDGE OF SANITY, CARNAGE, ENTOMBED...

Tracklist 1. By Inferno’s Light 2. Dying Like Dogs in Winter 3. Mutilator 4. Wickedness that Lurks Within 5. Skymningssonaten 6.

Mexico (Reign of Bullets) 7. Last Days in Fear 8. Salting the Earth 9. Driver 10. Souls Last Caress

Lineup Dennis Blomberg Bass Henke Lundgren - Drums Rogga Johansson - Guitars

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Bohemyst Black/Death Metal band from Czechia released the first Full-length album Čerň a smrt on August 13, 2021.

BOHEMYST arose from the ashes of the Czech dark horde named AVENGER. Various personal an practical reasons led to the end of AVENGER in 2017 after 25 years.

But their dark path lives on under the new moniker BOHEMYST and with new blackened metal tunes with touches of death metal!

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Čerň A Smrt” is without a doubt the album many people have been waiting for. Blackened metal with touches of death metal and hints of ancient Southern Bohemian heritage blend in together to create an album that borders pure magnificence.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Čerň a smrt 3. Krvehlas 4. Na umrlčích prknech 5. Paní lesa 6. Kosti 7. Co nelze zapomenout 8. Nekromantika 9. Do chřtánu smrti 10. Zvrácenosti zvědavosti Lineup Infernits - Bass Hellsound - Drums Ramus - Guitars Jirka Kocián - Guitars Radek Popel - Vocals

Diskord Death Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album Degenerations on August 13, 2021.

Eccentric Norwegian death metal band Diskord have made quite a reputation for themselves over the years for playing some twisted, unhinged death metal that takes the best elements of old school death metal, dissonant death metal, technical death metal, even progressive and jazz music, and then some. Their death metal is wonderfully concocted, full of unpredictable twists and turns, while retaining ample causticity and drive throughout. There’s just so much happening at all times, it’s both mind-boggling and exhilarating as one attempts to decipher it all over the course of several listens - it’s impossible to fully wrap your head around this fascinating beast

of an album at one go. Seven years in the making, ‘Degenerations’, in addition to being a virtually perfect death metal album, is also one of the most exciting albums to come out in recent times, one that doesn’t conform to the standard template of death metal music and strives to create something altogether refreshing and unrestrained.

Tracklist 1. Loitering in the Portal 2. Bionic Tomb Eternal 3. Abnegations 4. The Endless Spiral 5. Dirigiste Radio Hit 6. Lone Survivor 7. Dragged for Coronation 8. Clawing at the Fabric of Space

9. Atoms Decay 10. Raging Berzerker in the Universe Rigid 11. Gnashing 12. Beyond the Grime Lineup Hans Jørgen - Drums, Vocals Eyvind - Bass, Electric upright bass, Cello, Theremin, Synth, Vocals Dmitry - Guitars, Vocals

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Annihilus Black Metal band from United States released the second Full-length album Follow a Song from the Sky on August 13, 2021.

For Chicago-based musician Luca Cimarusti, black metal held the appeal that lures so many listeners into its caustic wavelengths—it exuded the power and primal spirit of metal with the no-frills delivery and raw performance of punk. The added element of the genre’s fixation on mystery and fantasy,

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to mine the atmospheric essence of black metal while pushing the stylistic, thematic, and emotional boundaries of the genre.

Tracklist 1. The Grand Illusion 2. Twist Ending 3. Draw the Beast 4. Winter Song 5. The Voice of Shai-Hulud 6. AMA 7. Isolation Tracking 8. Song from the Sky

and the way so many artists in the field were shrouded in a veil of their own creation, was an added bonus. It was with these sonic, stylistic, and performative attributes that prompted Cimarusti to develop his own black metal project, Annihilus, back in 2019. Where the project once Lineup provided a refuge of self-reliant Luca Cimarusti - Bass, Drums, creativity, the toils of the last Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals year imbued the project with an even greater urgency and gravity. With his sophomore album Follow a Song From the Sky, Cimarusti continues

Wolves in the Throne Room Atmospheric Black Metal band from United States released the seventh Fulllength album Primordial Arcana on August 20, 2021.

Two decades into their journey as ritualistic black metal conjurers, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have emerged from the forest with Primordial Arcana, their most majestic album to date.

Primordial Arcana sees WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM stay true to their unique vision. An album born out of the DIY ethos, Primordial Arcana proves to be the band’s most genuine and focused.

One of the year’s most ambitious recordings, Primordial Arcana c e m e n t s

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s legacy as one of US Black Metal’s most daring, unique, and quintessential bands.

Lineup Aaron Weaver - Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals Nathan Weaver Vocals (lead), Guitars Kody Keyworth - Guitars, Vocals

Tracklist 1. Mountain Magick 2. Spirit of Lightning 3. Through Eternal Fields 4. Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) 5. Underworld Aurora 6. Masters of Rain and Storm 7. Eostre 8. Skyclad Passage

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Ethereal Sin BSymphonic/Melodic Black Metal band from Japan released the fourth Fulllength album Time of Requiem Part. 1 on August 25, 2021.

Ethereal Sin formed in 1997 at Kobe in Japan by Yama Darkblaze.

They are consistently based on the Animism and Pagan thought from the Initial Activity.

They are playing Symphonic and Melodic Black Metal that called «Elegiac Black Metal» by themselves.

It’s characterized by sound spectacular with the Fast and Dramatic configuration that based on the Melody of

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Oriental origin, including chorus.

Tracklist 1. Time of Invocation 2. Beyond the Love and Hate 3. Like a Garuda 4. Into the Misty Rain 5. Dash to Across the Sky and Sea 6. Braveheart Again 7. Ouka 8. Faraway Scene 9. Hagakure 10. Transparent Twins 11. Time of Requiem

Lineup Yama Darkblaze - Vocals (lead) Seth Maelstrom - Bass, Vocals (backing) Kikka Schwarzfleet - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Lord Wilhelm - Violin Gensui Fitzgerald - Drums

Maysaloon Melodic Death Metal band from Syria released the second Full-length album A Lip to Earth, a Lip to Heaven and a Tongue to the Stars on August 25, 2021.

The band formed in Syria in 2015 and now based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Entitled as “A Lip to Earth, a Lip to Heaven and a Tongue to the Stars” this record carries with it every shape and form of absolute rage and wickedness Maysaloon ever wrote. The album title was directly taken from a clay tablet that depicts the infamous Canaanite\Phoenician epic called the «Baal Cycle».

It represents in all its aspects the persevering life of human beings and their certain fate.

A never ending cycle and a pure reflection to a highly sophisticated nation which thrived in glory and faded into decay beneath these lands. The endless battle between the god of fertility and the god of death inspired band’s thoughts and visions towards music and history, and shaped their true value as artists from channeling everything they had been put through into art.

Tracklist 1. A Hymn to Ugarit 2. Mot 3. Pillars of Creation 4. Herald of Divinity 5. Hadad, Slayer Yamm 6. Of Gods and Decay 7. Downfall 8. The Truer One

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Lineup Dio Al-Miqdad - Bass, Drum programming Jake Shuker - Vocals, Guitars Khodor Nashar - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Jamal Al-Mohrez - Drums

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Nunslaughter Death Metal band from United States released the fifth Full-length album Red Is the Color of Ripping Death on August 27, 2021.

NUNSLAUGHTER requires no introduction.

Since 1987, these Ohio natives have prolifically perfected their own brand of Devil Metal: an evil blend of classic death metal and hardcore punk.

This album comprises material newly written with NUNSLAUGHTER’s current lineup, which is arguably the band’s best to date. And hearing is believing: over the course of the album’s 35 minutes, it becomes immediately

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apparent that NUNSLAUGHTER are a really good - and really ripping - DEATH METAL band above all . Largely gone (or least sublimated) is the hardcore punk influence, and in its place is an absolutely furious onslaught of catchiness and causticness.

Tracklist 1. Murmur 2. Broken and Alone 3. To a Whore

4. Banished 5. Red Is the Color of Ripping Death 6. Eat Your Heart 7. Annihilate the Kingdom of God 8. Beware of God 9. Black Cat Hanging 10. Dead in Ten 11. The Devil Will Not Stray 12. The Temptress 13. Casket Lid Creaks 14. Below the Cloven Hoof Lineup Don of the Dead Vocal Tormentor Guitar Wrath - Drums Detonate - Bass

Thyrfing Viking/Black Metal band from Sweden released the eighth Full-length album Vanagandr on August 27, 2021.

After eight years in the wilderness Swedish Viking/Pagan metal kings Thyrfing return with their brand-new album ‘Vanagandr’.

Thyrfing emerged from the evergrowing underground scene in Sweden back in 1995. After seven full-length albums and numerous live performances all over the world, the band have gained a strong following over the years and an exquisite standing within the metal scene.

Balancing brutality with melody, blast beats with groove, ‘Vanagandr’ is an album as grandiose as it is vicious, and Thyrfing are a band like no other.

Lineup Joakim «Jocke» Kristensson Keyboards, Bass Patrik Lindgren - Guitars Jens Rydén - Vocals Fredrik Hernborg - Guitars Dennis Ekdahl - Drums

Tracklist 1. Döp dem i eld 2. Undergångens länkar 3. Rötter 4. Fredlös 5. Järnhand 6. Håg och minne 7. Träldomsord 8. Jordafärd

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Obscurity Melodic Black/ Viking/Death Metal band from Germany released the ninth Full-length album Skogarmaors on August 27, 2021.

With ‘Skogarmaors’ Obscurity forge their ninth studio album. At the first glance one might think there is nothing new in Obscurity, but with Skogarmaors there are several new elements within the band. Since their last album ‘Streitmacht’ Obscurity’s team changed severely. The quintet from the Bergisch Land with Askar (guitars) and Isarn (drums)

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welcome new brothers in their ranks. Askar followed the footsteps of Cortez and Isarn took place for Draugr. Both, Askar and Isarn did a great job on the new album which is significantly influenced by them.

The 13 new songs on the album will benefit from those influences. Obscurity will stay a bastion in continuity and they only create music they do stand for. Skogarmaors is not a concept album which is why there is such thematic diversity in the lyrics. Nordic mythology and contemporary social subjects take place in the sung words.

Tracklist: 1. Wodanaz Kriger 2. Niedertracht 3. Ethnogenese 4. Konstantinopel 5. Geist von Neuenberge 6. Skogarmaors 7. Glod en Isa 8. Blot 9. Legion 10. Bergische Löwen Pt.2 11. DiesAter 12. Schwertmission 13. Valkyria

Hooded Menace Death/Doom Metal band from Finland released the sixth Full-length album The Tritonus Bell on August 27, 2021.

With their new album ‘The Tritonus Bell’, the Finns continue to impress with immaculate songwriting skills and the perfect balance between harsh death metal fuelled outbursts, and exquisite melodic melancholy.

For fans of ACID WITCH, ASPHYX, (later) AUTOPSY, COFFINS, (later) RUNEMAGICK.

Ornaments 4. Those Who Absorb the Night 5. Corpus Asunder 6. Scattered into Dark 7. Instruments of Somber Finality

Lineup Lasse Pyykkö - Guitars (lead), Guitars (rhythm), Keyboards, Bass Pekka Koskelo - Drums Teemu Hannonen - Guitars (rhythm) Harri Kuokkanen - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Chthonic Exordium 2. Chime Diabolicus 3.

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The Maledict Death/Doom Metal band from Australia released the third Full-length album Remembrance on August 29, 2021.

The Maledict is a death/doom band which formed in rural Victoria, Australia, in 2012.

Originally conceived as a small-scale death metal project between guitarist/ vocalist and principal songwriter Ian McLean and bassist Stuart McCarthy, over time the initial straight death metal approach continued to mutate, inheriting an

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increasing number of gothic, orchestral and doom metal influences.

The Maledict have come a long way and the ambition that the band show here is impressive as they effortlessly blend atmospheric doom and crushing death metal into an hour long effort that is hard to fault and worthy of recognition.

Tracklist 1. Remembrance 2. Dolor Nil Finis 3. Forever Adrift 4. The Maledict I 5. The Maledict II 6. Porous 7. Skies of Static 8. The River Ophidian

Aborted Death Metal band from Belgium released the eleventh Full-length album Maniacult on September 10, 2021.

Belgiums most infamous Death Metal crew ABORTED deliver a bone-crushing display of of unyielding and odious Death Metal with their 11th fulllength, ManiaCult. Standout tracks like “Impetus Odi” and “Dementophobia” prove the point that the band undisputedly earned their place within the cream of the crop of Death Metal.

ManiaCult is a whirring blender of Death Metal and further solidifies ABORTED’s stature as one of the

most dangerous death metal bands on the planet. You’ve been warned.

Tracklist 1. Verderf 2. Maniacult 3. Impetus Odi 4. Portal to Vacuity 5. Dementophobia 6. A Vulgar Quagmire 7. Verbolgen 8. Ceremonial Ineptitude

9. Drag Me to Hell 10. Grotesque 11. I Prediletti: The Folly of the Gods Lineup Sven de Caluwe - Vocals Ken Bedene - Drums Ian Jekelis - Guitars Stefano Franceschini - Bass

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Hladomrak Black Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Archaic Sacrifice on September 10, 2021.

«Hladomrak» (Хладомрак) can be translated from the Slavic languages as «cold darkness».

Hladomrak represents the dark side of nature, the one indifferent and ruthless to

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mankind. Hladomrak is You, when Your mind is cold and thoughts wander in darkness of consciousness searching for answers to eternal questions.

Born at the north Hladomrak has absorbed eternal winter atmosphere, stone hardness, spring water coldness and dark roots. This opus is an epic journey across black metal with the band’s very own, unique flare to it.

Tracklist: 1. Fozforos Insignia 2. I Zinew 3. Tiethu’m 4. Wistarbor 5. Saith 6. Asterial Well 7. Port End 8. Niel’n Lineup Evgenerator - Guitars, Vocals Talon - Vocals (lead)

Graveland Pagan/Viking Metal band from Poland released the twentieth Full-length album Hour of Ragnarok on September 13, 2021.

On the threshold of the coming Ragnarok, Graveland comes to you armed with a new full-length album, with music that was created from the ashes of past battles. The new songs that revived like a phoenix from legends and myths and the most epic Graveland works such as «Thousand Swords» are a continuation of this style of the band.

Epic Pagan Metal!

Here’s the music to prepare you for Ragnarok! Music from the beginning of the history of Graveland, when it was recorded in a full line-up! A sword, arrow and spear held in a strong hand, hardened in sweat, blood and battle. “Hour of Ragnarok” was forged by a three-person line-up.

The songs for the album were created during last three years, but it was 2020 when the work gained momentum. It took a long time to compose and record the symphonic back tracks that makes up the epic background in music. This is a development of an idea that you could have already heared on the album «1050 Years of Pagan Cult».

Tracklist 1. The Wolf of Twilight Wisdom of Runes 2. Hour of Ragnarok 8. River of Tears 3. Conspiracy of the Wizards Lineup 4.

Children of Skyth - Bass Hyperborea Rob Darken - Vocals, 5. Following the Azure Guitars, Keyboards Light Ahrin - Drums 6. The Three Gifts of the Gods 7.

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Trigger Death Metal band from Russia released the fourth Full-length album Back to the Roots on September 15, 2021.

The band creation was started in Summer of 2004, at the time three friends (Mozhaev Artem, Myakishev Aleksei,Kulagin Dmitriy (R.I.P.)) had decided to set up a band. Had found most insignificant instruments, they started everyday hard work on material.

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Incidentally they called the band “TRIGGER” – this word, of cause, has more than one meaning, but they made an accent on trigger as a gun part!

All this stuff is strongly recommended for fans of TRIGGER first of all, fans of SIX FEET UNDER, OBITUARY, OBSCENITY and many other traditional death metal bands!

Tracklist: 1. Situation Is Tense 2. Back to the Roots 3. Rejection of Reality 4. Alcoholic Slavery 5. No More Lies 6. Expulsion of Pain 7. Blood Terror 8. Crystal Lake 9. Worn and Torn 10. Vomiting Flame Lineup Artem Mozhaev - Guitars Ramin Dragar - Vocals Vladimir Malakhov - Drums Ulyana Andreeva - Bass

Carcass Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the seventh Full-length album Torn Arteries on September 17, 2021.

Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for over three decades. Last December (2019) the band released their first single in over 5 years “Under The Scalpel Blade,” followed by a 4 song EP entitled Despicable (October 2020), setting a potent precedent for the full length album to come in 2021: TORN ARTERIES. With the album title

itself referencing an old demo 6. Flesh Ripping Torment created by original drummer Limited Ken Ownback in the 80’s, TORN 7. Kelly’s Meat Emporium ARTERIES sits as a bookend on 8. In God We Trust the modern side of the CARCASS 9. Wake Up and Smell the discography, connecting directly Carcass / Caveat Emptor back to where everything began 10. The Scythe’s Remorseless over 30 years ago.

Swing Tracklist 1. Torn Arteries Lineup 2. Dance of IXTAB (Psychopomp & Jeff Walker - Bass, Vocals Circumstance March No.1 in B) Bill Steer - Guitars, Vocals 3. Eleanor Rigor Mortis Daniel Wilding - Drums 4. Under the Scalpel Blade Tom Draper - Guitars 5. The Devil Rides Out

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Insomnium Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the EP Argent Moon on September 17, 2021.

Frontman Niilo Sevänen about how the “Argent Moon” EP came to be: «When the Corona outbreak forced us to cancel all the tours and shows, we pretty soon adopted a mindset that we better do something and keep ourselves in motion. We wanted to try how the streaming shows might work. We wanted to see what kind of new music might grow in the darkness and misery of the quarantine. And soon these

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vibes were channeled into songs that came to be the “Argent Moon” EP. We wanted to try something a bit different so all the four songs on this release represent the softer side of Insomnium. The ballads and the mellow tunes. Acoustic guitars and clean vocals. The sorrow and agony that creeps into your heart when the nights grow longer. But fear not, we haven’t changed our style. Next album will be something different again. We used all the ballad ideas here so maybe it will be pure blast beats. We shall see.»

Tracklist 1. The Conjurer 2. The Reticent 3. The Antagonist 4. The Wanderer Lineup Niilo Sevänen - Bass, Vocals Markus Hirvonen - Drums Markus Vanhala - Guitars Jani Liimatainen - Guitars, Vocals (clean)

Saturnian Mist Black Metal band from Finland released the third Full-length album Shamatanic on September 17, 2021.

Saturnian Mist was formed in 2006 in Finland. The goal was clear from the start; to create occult black metal with the elements of ritual practices incorporated in their sound.

The eerie beginning were humble and raw but the band managed to create a buzz around them nevertheless.

Saturnian Mist decided to create the ultimate album to spread their occult message over the world. “Shamatanic” was created and is ready to be unleashed upon mankind in all its’ glory and magnificence.

Fast, dark, groovy and hypnotic occult black metal that will draw you into their circle of rituals and firm beliefs. Make no mistake; this

is not an album for the flock of sheep out there. This is an album for those who are ready to dedicate their whole being to the law. Chaos is the law! Black metal to dance away your days to or fall prey to wolves that hide in the shadows.

Tracklist 1. Ill-Mystic 2. Blood Magick 3. Chaos is the Law 4. The Manifestation 5. The End Times 6. Altar of Flesh And Blood 7. Arbatel of Black Magick 8. Ordo Templi Saturni 9. Shamatanic 10. Ipsissimus

Lineup fra. Zetekh - Vocals fra. Vile - Drums fra. Macabrum - Bass fra. Kult - Percussion fra. Ferreus - Guitars fra. Chaoswind - Guitars (lead) fra. Sota - Percussion

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Shadecrown Melodic Death/Doom Metal band from Finland released the third Full-length album Solitarian on September 17, 2021.

Shadecrown (founded in 2012) is a melodic death metal band from the heart of Finland. The band consists of Jari Hokka on vocals, Tomi Tikka & Joonas Vesamaki on guitars, Saku Tammelin on keyboards, Janne Salmelin on bass & backing vocals and Kalle Varonen on drums.

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Lineup Jari Hokka - Vocals Joonas Vesamaki - Guitar Tomi Tikka - Guitar Saku Tammelin - Keyboards Janne Salmelin - Bass & clean vocals Kalle Varonen - Drums

Tracklist 1. The Awakening 2. Dark Heart Replica 3. Momentary Trails 4. Slivers 5. The Loss 6. Aeon’s Still 7. Crestfallen 8. Solitarian

Livløst Black Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album Symphony of Flies on September 17, 2021.

«Symphony of Flies» is the third Livløst’s album, the two norwegians are playing an uncompromising, grimly dissonant and bewitched black metal with definitively sinster atmospheres.

Often difficult, frequently nightmarish, this stuff easily ranks as one of nordic lands’ more challenging and oblique offerings. And for us, one of his most fascinating.

With a mix of various norsk black metal traditions, atmospheric and mid-tempo practices, and a radical approach to traditional

notions of extreme music in its truest sense, ‘Symphony of Flies’ is undoubtedly highly demanding of the listener. ...a dreamlike descent into the realm of death.

Tracklist 1. Symphony of Flies 2. No Reason 3. Holy Night 4. Angelperfume 5 .

Red 6. Hostel

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Orbit Culture Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden released the EP Shaman on September 24, 2021.

In the southern parts of Sweden, in between the two major revered metal cities, Gothenburg and Stockholm lie the small town of Eksjö, just about 60 kilometers from Jönköping.

From Eksjö, best known for its old wooden architecture dating back to the 14th century comes the four-piece metal band we know of today, Orbit Culture.

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Orbit Culture was founded in 2013 by member Niklas Karlsson and ex-member Maximilian Zinsmeister. Both singer and guitarist Niklas and lead guitarist Maximilian did participate in different music constellations back and forth across the county.

At the age of 17, Niklas and Maximilian met each other through mutual friends in Eksjö, and through the same love of heavy riffing and writing songs; Niklas and Maximilian decided to start a small jam group.

Tracklist 1. Mast of the World 2. Flight of the Fireflies 3. Carvings 4. Strangler 5. A Sailor’s Tale Lineup Niklas Karlsson - Vocals, Guitars Fredrik - Lennartsson Bass Richard Hansson - Guitars (lead) Christopher Wallerstedt Drums

Azazel Black Metal band from Finland released the third Full-length album Aegrum Satanas Tecum on September 24, 2021.

Formed in 1992, Azazel are among the first black metal bands to hail from Finland. Aegrus Satanas Tecum is a long-awaited third album and unique record in that it bridges all the band’s eras whilst opening new portals into the black beyond. Azazel may be predictably unpredictable, but Aegrus Satanas Tecum proves that their twisting saga is far from over. Aegrus Satanas Tecum is an album that’s equally early ’90s and now Azazel are more undead than ever.

Tracklist 1. Invocation (Hail the Ancient Ones) 2. Jesus Christ Impotent Rotting Saviour 3.

Welcome to Church Bizarre 4. I Worship Him 5. Demons Attack the Nun’s Chapel (Aegrum Satanas Tecum) 6.

Incubus R i s e s Again 7.

Succubus, My Infernal Vampire Spirit 8.

In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas

Lineup Lord Satanachia - Vocals Mavrofos - Guitars Idimmu - Drums Raakalainen - Guitars Lucifuge Rofocale - Bass

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Skepticism Funeral Doom Metal band from Finland released the sixth Fulllength album Companion on September 24, 2021.

The release of the album is a culmination of six years of work since the previous album Ordeal and a milestone in the 30year journey of the band.

Fittingly the morning in Finland greets us with subtle autumn rain in the dark before dawn.

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Lineup Lasse Pelkonen - Drums Jani Kekarainen - Guitars Eero Pöyry - Keyboards Matti Tilaeus - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Calla 2. The Intertwined 3. The March of the Four 4. Passage 5. The Inevitable 6. The Swan and the Raven

Surturs Lohe Viking/Folk Black Metal band from Germany released the fifth Full-length album Wielandstahl on September 24, 2021.

«Surturs Lohe» translates to «Surtur’s blaze». In Nordic mythology Surtr is the leader of the fire giants and the ruler of Muspelheim, the realm of fire.

Surturs Lohe can look back on 5 albums since their 25th anniversary, a split CD and many successful concerts. They are a constant size of the Thuringian Pagan Metal scene & some members of Surturs Lohe are also in other Pagan Metal bands like MENHIR, ODROERIR and FIMBULVET. On „Wielandstahl“ Surturs Lohe present nine songs, that could not be more epic and primeval. This is old school

Thuringian Pagan Metal. High velocity riffing is contrasted with mighty choirs and folky use of the flute embellishes acoustic guitar arrangements, reminiscent of early works of Ulver. Lyrically „Wielandstahl“ is an interpretation of the story of Wieland, the blacksmith. On „Wielandstahl“ the band reminds us of stories from days long gone, presenting them in a soundscape consisting of epic melodies, elated

rhythms but also speedy passages.

Tracklist 1. Sohn von Glut und Stahl 2. Mimes Reigen 3. Die Schwanenballade 4. Wielandstahl 5. Von albischer Hand 6. Nidungs Reich 7. Der Lahmende Schmied 8. Kelche von Gold 9. Nur ein Vogel Lineup Alraun - Vocals (female), Flute Ragnfalt - Guitars Nidhoggr Drums Heidenherz - Vocals (lead) Gram - Guitars Ralf Clemen - Bass

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Cataleptic Melodic Doom/Death Metal band from Finland released the third Full-length album The Tragedy on October 1, 2021.

‘The Tragedy’ is a phenomenal outstanding and extremely catchy piece of a Death/Doom Metal f.f.o. Temple Of Void, Saturnus, Insomnium, Wine From Tears or early Tiamat.

Cataleptic was formed 2003 and contains members from well-known acts like Gorephilia, Corpsessed or Solothus.

Cataleptic about ‘The Tragedy’: «After a few crucial line-up changes and with the help of a producer from outside the

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band our new effort The Tragedy is a Tracklist: truly ambitious offering. Musically it 1. Alpha Strike takes a leap forward: The most diverse 2. Disarmed. Disowned. Betrayed record we’ve done, while still sounding 3. Whipped to Drudgery very Cataleptic. Lyrically it revolves 4. Lost around a theme of war, betrayal and 5. Recompense in Death revenge. Bronze clad Champion of 6. To Burn This World (Omega the battlefield faces betrayal and Campaign) commences the Age of Fire. Want to hear some music with character without metal sub-genre boundaries? Lineup Give this album a spin.»

Juha Karjalainen - Drums Sami Iivonen - Guitars, Vocals Tami Luukkonen - Bass Tuomas Kulmala - Guitars

Gloosh Atmospheric Black Metal band from Russia released the second Full-length album Sylvan Coven on October 1, 2021.

The band name is Russian for «backwoods/ wilderness».

GLOOSH continues to explore deep forests, to talk with spirits, to admire woodland dances and songs, to be enchanted by witches and to hide from the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. This time you foresters are waiting for harsher and more evil thickets.

Tracklist 1. Swampsong 2. Woodland Waltz 3. Hexenring 4. Incantation 5. The Mist of Sleep 6. Hyakki Yagyō

Lineup George Gabrielyan - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards Vladimir Udarnov - Guest drums

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Northsong Viking Metal band from United States released the third Full-length album Northern Winds & Winter Hymns on October 2, 2021.

Northern Winds & Winter Hymns is the first Northsong album in over five years.

It contains 12 tracks of Epic Viking Metal goodness, making it Northsong’s biggest release yet.

Included in those 12 tracks are re-recorded versions of «Titan» and the three songs from «Forgotten Tales». It is also Northsong’s most diverse album, with heavy influences from many different genres from the cold grimness of black metal, to the heroic

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optimism of power metal, and many more. To put it simply, this album is Northsong at its best.

Let the cold atmospheres and epic tales of Northern Winds & Winter Hymns bring you back to another time in the frozen north - distant and forgotten, yet familiar still.

Tracklist 1. Northern Winds 2. Oblivion 3. Forogtten Tales 4. Kimbulvetr 5. Titan 6. Forest’s Song of Sorrow 7. Beyond the Mists of Avalon 8. Thunderous 9. Vinlander 10. Obsidian Sword 11. Mjjolnir’s Might 12. Winter Hymn Lineup Cort Runyon - Everything

Cenotaph Brutal Death Metal band from Turkey released the seventh Fulllength album Precognition to Eradicate on October 6, 2021.

Formed by vocalist Batu Çetin and a few friends in 1993. A full lineup was acquired in the summer of 1994.

Cenotaph are part of the TRDM movement; a movement consisting of a variety of Turkish brutal death metal bands that Çetin organized in 2006.

Tracklist 1. Anti-Pathogenic Morbid Incubation 2. Progeny of Embryonic Congenital Malformations 3. Anomalous Necrotic Breed 4. Virus Induced Dehumanization 5. Recombinant Extraterrestrial New Form 6. Isolation Turned into Cannibalism 7. Precognition to Eradicate 8. Pandemic Bacterial Reverse Mutation 9. Into the Septic Molecular New Form

Lineup Batu Çetin - Vocals Eren Pamuk - Bass Florent Duployer - Drums Mattis Butcher - Guitars

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Hegemon Black Metal band from France released the fifth Full-length album Sidereus Nuncius on October 7, 2021.

HEGEMON came to life in the winter of 1996 with one and only goal: to create music full of rage coming from the deepest part of each of its founding members, A, N and F. The birth of the band never followed a plan nor had any great expectations.

As years went by other shadows came in and out of the band, leaving their mark only momentarily. AD and D were the last souls to slip

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into the den to call it home and to form a strong, determined, united front that nothing nor anyone could ever break.

Several albums were released, enabling the band to assert its music and to forge its identity regardless of trends, conventions, and outside expectations.

HEGEMON simply plays the Black Metal that burns in its soul with sincerity, honesty and integrity, never having claimed to be trailblazers, the group’s only creed. Together with this wild desire for freedom, independence, and complete rejection of

anything that could reduce man to slavery, more and more the band profoundly rejects its human roots, as witnessed by the substitution of the band members’ names for a simple letter, because only music and disobedience count.

Tracklist 1. Heimarménè 2. Mellonta Tauta 3. Shamanic Cosmocrator 4. Ascendency of Astral Chaos 5. Shape Shifting Void 6. Ad Astra per Obscura 7. Black Hole Womb 8.

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Blood Red Throne Death Metal band from N o r w a y released the tenth Full-length album Imperial Congregation on October 8, 2021.

Blood Red Throne started in 1998 when Død and Tchort (while playing in Satyricon at that time), decided to form their own band and show their passion for death metal. Tchort had been playing death metal since 1989 with his band Green Carnation, which was one of the first death metal bands in Norway, and Død had been a huge fan and of the genre since 1992. Tchort was also the bass player in Emperor in the early 90’s and has been involved with bands like Carpathian Forest and Einherjer. The band soon got in touch with a very skilled drummer living in their hometown by the name of Freddy Bolsø, and BRT was born and soon after bassist Erlend Caspersen joined the newly formed Blood Red Throne.

Tracklist 1. Imperial Congregation 2. Itika 3. Conquered Malevolence 4. Transparent Existence 5. Inferior Elegance 6. We All Bleed 7. 6:7 8. Consumed Illusion 9. Hero-Antics 10. Zarathustra

Lineup Freddy Bolso - Drums Dod - Guitars Ivan Gujic - Guitars Yngve «Bolt» Christiansen Vocals Stian Gundersen - Bass

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Blackdeath Black Metal band from Russia released the tenth Full-length album Also sprach das Chaos on October 8, 2021.

Blackdeath was founded back in 1995 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. From the very foundation and up to now Blackdeath has chanted and is chanting the Apocalypse which befalls everywhere, from the deeps of human psyche to the chasms of the endless Space. Blackdeath plays Apocalyptic Black Metal exclusively.

While going through creative experiments and musical development Blackdeath is still faithful to its credo:

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«Blackdeath means Black Metal».

“Also sprach das Chaos” consists of two songs: 14 and 19 minutes, respectively. Both as glacial and hostile as the Russian winter, with a plethora of surprises lurking in the icy darkness.

Tracklist 1. Paralysiertes Äquinoktium / Мир рухнул 2. I’m Labyrinth

Lineup Colonel Para Bellum - Bass, Vocals, Lyrics Abysslooker Guitars, Vocals, Songwriting Polar Maya - Drums, Vocals

Aeon Death Metal band from Sweden released the fifth Full-length album God Ends Here on October 15, 2021.

With 2012’s «Aeons Black» standing as one of the defining death metal albums of the twentyfirst century it has been a long wait for the follow up. In 2021, Sweden’s Aeon finally return with its successor, «God Ends Here», and in doing so only up the ante with a record that is bigger, harder and stronger in every way.

«I wasn’t feeling any pressure after such a gap, we don’t do shit half assed and I feel like this is our strongest album yet,» states guitarist Zeb Nilsson.

A darker, even more epic collection, it is everything an Aeon fan could want with a few surprises in store, pushing the genre in new directions and once again asserting that they are one of the most important bands in extreme metal.

Lineup Zeb Nilsson - Guitars, Choir, Songwriting Tommy Dahlström - Vocals, Lyrics Daniel Dlimi - Guitars, Keyboards, Songwriting Tony Östman - Bass Janne Jaloma - Drums

Tracklist 1. The Nihilist 2. Liar’s Den 3. Let It Burn 4. Opheus Indu Inferis 5. Church of Horror 6.

Deny Them Eternity 7. Forsaker 8. Into the Void 9. God Ends Here 10. Severed 11. Just One Kill 12. Mephistopheles 13. Let the Torturing Begin 14. Despise the Cross 15. Overture: Magnum Reginae 16. Queen of Lies

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Necromantia Aristocratic Black Metal band from Greece released the fifth Full-length album To the Depths We Descend... on October 15, 2021.

Necromantia is a Latin word which derives from Greek, and means «Divination of the Dead».

The band was created in late 1989 by two likeminded individuals: The Magus (bass/vocals) and Baron Blood (8-string bass). Their aim was to create original, powerful and innovative Diabolical music, replacing the usual 6-string guitars with 8-string bass and joined forces with various musicians in

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drums, lead guitars, keyboards and innovations in order to complete their magical formula.

Their first recordings earned them a cult status in the scene since their music was original, ritualistic and utterly sinister.

NECROMANTIA never hesitated to use “non-metal” instruments like saxophone, percussions etc. in addition to their standard metal orchestrations, and that option made them unique and

established their own individual sound.

In 2019 Baron Blood departed from this world. The Magus decided to dissolve the band but not before creating a last opus as a tribute to his lost brother in darkness. The album is entitled “To the depths we descend….”.

Tracklist 1. Daemonocentric 2. And the Shadows Wept...

3. Give the Devil His Due 4. Inferno 5. Eldritch 6. To the Depths We Descend...

7. Lord of the Abyss MMXXI 8. The Warlock MMXXI Lineup The Magus - Bass, Vocals, Keyboards Yiannis Votsis - Drums George Emmanuel - Guitars, Keyboards

Destinity Melodic Death Metal band from France released the ninth Full-length album In Continuum on October 15, 2021.

Pushing ever forward. That has been Destinity’s driving force since the creation of the band in 1996 when the three founding members, Mick Caesare (vocals), Stephan Barboni (rhythm guitar), Florent Barboni (drums), joined as teens in their small village just outside of Lyon, France around their mutual fascination for extreme music.

Tracklist 1. The Sand Remains 2. Reject the Deceit 3. Reflections 4. Shadows 5. Dawn Never Breaks 6. Architect of Light 7. A Lucid Strain 8. Snakepit 9. Salvation

Lineup Morteüs - Drums, Vocals (backing), Keyboards, Programming Zephiros - Guitars (rhythm) Mick - Vocals Seb V.S. - Guitars (lead) Dave - Bass

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Hate Blackened Death Metal band from Poland released the twelfth Full-length album Rugia on October 15, 2021.

No one combines death and black metal quite like Poland’s Hate. With unflinching viciousness and a sense of atmosphere unique to the band, on Rugia, their twelfth full-length, they push the boundaries of their craft even further. “It was clear to me that it should build upon and evolve from our previous record ‘Auric Gates Of Veles’ (2019) both musically and lyrically. However, every Hate record stands as a separate journey, and never twice to the same place. You never know exactly

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where it will lead you” states vocalist/ guitarist ATF Sinner, who has led the band since 1991. Fresh blood in the band’s lineup also helped contribute to Rugia’s unique sound. Pavulon (drums), who had played with the band since 2014, was forced to step down from the band due to serious health issues.

The band tapped Nar-Sil (Neolith, Virgin Snatch, Embrional) to take his place. “Working with a new drummer this time around was a fascinating experience for me. Nar-Sil’s technique and presence are quite different from Pavulon’s and that definitely comes across. I believe we managed to construct a refreshing new chapter to our discography, composing nine truly sinister onslaughts of pure rage.”

Tracklist: 1. Rugia 2. The Wolf Queen 3. Exiles of Pantheon 4. Saturnus 5. Awakening the Gods Within 6. Resurgence 7. Velesian Guard 8. Sun of Extinction 9. Sacred Dnieper Lineup Tiermes - Bass Domin - Guitars (lead) ATF Sinner - Vocals, Guitars Nar-Sil - Drums

The Agonist Melodic Death Metal band from Canada released the EP Days Before the World Wept on October 15, 2021.

Canadian extreme melodic death metal juggernaut THE AGONIST took the world by storm with the release of their bludgeoning 2019 full-length, Orphans – garnering fantastic critical acclaim and even a revered Juno nomination. With that undeniable skill in tow, THE AGONIST takes another bold step in their musical and lyrical progression with Days Before The World Wept. Inspired by real life experiences, it explores a grim, conceptual tale of greed, gluttony, confusion, pain, redemption and hope enveloped in a new level of aggression and cohesive, technical prowess.

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out all the stops, showcasing their chops in all directions with breakneck instrumentation and staggeringly superb vocal approaches. Soaring through a kaleidoscope of blistering metal mastery and hopeful lyrical dramatism, the opus dominates as one of the most impressive works of the band’s catalog.

Tracklist 1. Remnants in Time 04:53 2. Immaculate Deception 03:35 3. Resurrection 05:11 4. Feast on the Living 03:22 5. Days Before the World Wept Lineup Chris Kells - Bass, Vocals (backing) Danny Marino - Guitars Simon McKay - Drums Pascal Jobin - Guitars Vicky Psarakis - Vocals (lead)

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Cradle of filth Extreme Gothic/Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the thirteenth Fulllength album Existence Is Futile on October 22, 2021.

Cradle of Filth have hit an unmistakable hot streak of creativity and urgency. As a new line-up coalesced around the creation of 2015’s «Hammer Of The Witches», fresh impetus propelled the band to new heights, as the revitalised crew became more in demand around the world than ever before. 2017’s «Cryptoriana -The Seductiveness Of Decay» repeated the trick with even

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more explosive flamboyance. Until a global pandemic brought the music industry to a jarring halt, Cradle of Filth were almost permanently on the road and absolutely fucking flying. As a result, it should surprise no one that the band’s brand new album, «Existence Is Futile», is yet another monumental and electrifying journey through the dark.

A bewitching, fearless nosedive into the abyss, the band’s thirteenth studio album confirms the ferocious efficacy of CRADLE OF FILTH in 2021. Bold, brave, wildly imaginative and heavy as hell, the band’s latest runaway trainride through the flames is the perfect album for these most imperfect of times.

Tracklist 1. The Fate of the World on Our Shoulders 2. Existential Terror 3. Necromantic Fantasies 4. Crawling King Chaos 5. Here Comes a Candle... (Infernal Lullaby) 6. Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War 7. Discourse Between a Man and His Soul 8. The Dying of the Embers 9. Ashen Mortality 10. How Many Tears to Nurture a Rose?

11. Suffer Our Dominion 12. Us, Dark, Invincible

Massacre Death Metal band from United States released the fourth Fulllength album Resurgence on October 22, 2021.

Florida-based death metal legends Massacre are back!

Featuring the very same creatures that appeared on the Chamber of Ages (1986) demo, as well as some of death metal’s most prolific and malignant songwriters, new album Resurgence is the perfect soundtrack to the gruesome plague era in which we all reside.

That’s right, returning to the fold are vocalist Kam Lee (Mantas, Bone Gnawer) and original bassist Mike Borders. Joining them in their journey between space-time are: inhuman death metal machine Rogga Johansson (Megascavenger, Rib Spreader) on guitars, Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath) on guitars, Brynjar Helgetun

(Crypticus) on drums, and solo fiend Scott Fairfax (Memoriam, As the World Dies) on guitars. Normally, we’d call this profane configuration a ‘supergroup,’ but the Great Old Ones have spoken, hailing the new Massacre lineup a ‘stellargroup.’ With cosmic horrors reanimating and Resurgence emanating pure, unadulterated death metal, the Massacre principals couldn’t be more pleased.

The six-piece have retained the nasty nebullic strength and aggression they invoked all those years ago on cult classic debut From Beyond (1991),

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Tracklist 1. Eldritch Prophecy 2. Ruins of R’Lyeh 3. Innsmouth Strain 4. The Whisperer in Darkness 5. Book of the Dead (Neconomicon Ex Mortis) 6. Into the Far-Off Void 7. Servants of Discord 8. Fate of the Elder Gods 9. Spawn of the Succubus 10. Return of the Corpse Grinder

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1914 Blackened Death/Doom Metal band from Ukraine released the third Fulllength album Where Fear and Weapons Meet on October 22, 2021.

1914 continue to reflect the gruesome tales of World War I, its soldiers’ fate, their death, fear and feats to be never forgotten, and unleash their new opus, Where Fear and Weapons Meet, on October 22nd, via Napalm Records.

Its eleven tracks of pure historic harshness follow up to the band’s sophomore

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full-length, The Blind Leading the Blilnd (2018), and debut, Eschatology of War (2015), both highly acclaimed amongst critics, and create a sophisticated variety of massively brutal blackened death metal accented by dramatic and realistic audio soundscapes and disquieting melodies spiced with the approach of sludge and doom!

Authentic forces like ambient sonic war samplings transport these stories even further into the present and make Where Fear and Weapons Meet another heavily intense and deep-reaching output that will grant 1914 even higher appreciation than the five-piece is already credited with.

Tracklist: 1. War In 2. FN .380 ACP#19074 3. Vimy Ridge (In Memory of Filip Konowal) 4. Pillars of Fire (The Battle of Messines) 5. Don’t Tread on Me (Harlem Hellfighters) 6. Coward 7. ...and a Cross Now Marks His Place 8.

Corps d’autos-canonsmitrailleuses (A.C.M) 9. Mit Gott für König und Vaterland 10.

The Green Fields of France 11. War Out

Zornheym Symphonic Black/ Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album The Zornheim Sleep Experiment on October 22, 2021.

Founded and led by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Zorn, who was determined to shake up the traditional «metal-meetssymphony» approach after leaving iconic black metallers Dark Funeral, ZORNHEYM quickly grew from an ambitious idea into a dramatic musical and narrative driven concept revolving around the horrors of a mental institution and its prisoners. The band’s critically acclaimed debut album, «Where Hatred Dwells and Darkness Reigns,» opened the doors of the asylum in 2017, introducing the terrifying concept and gruesome characters within.

Four years later and featuring 10 new tracks of powerful, cinematic and mesmerizing symphonic extreme metal, ZORNHEYM’s album picks up where they left off, inviting the listener on a distracting journey, straight into the depths of the asylum! Once again, ZORNHEYM create their very own wall of sound by using a real choir and a string quartet and bring the story to life in a graphic novel that accompanies and expands upon the stories behind the album!

Tracklist Disc 1 1. Corpus Vile 5. Whom the Night 2. An Evil Within Brings...

3. Dead Silence 4. Keep the Devil Away Lineup 5. Slumber Comes in Time Scucca - Guitars, Vocals 6. Black Nine (backing) Disc 2 Bendler - Vocals 1. The Veiling of Bettelheim’s Zorn - Guitars (lead), Bass Eye Steve Pygmalion - Drums 2. The Revelation 3. Keep Cutting 4. The Madness That Lurks Wi t h i n (Epilogue)

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Be’Lakor Melodic Death Metal band from Australia released the fifth Full-length album Coherence on October 29, 2021.

Be’lakor is the name of a demon from the tabletop game Warhammer.

Since their debut, The Frail Tide in 2007, Australian Progressive Death Metal powerhouse BE‘LAKOR has made a huge impact on the international metal scene, turning heads with their technical-driven yet melodic songwriting.

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almost 15 years later, the legendary five-piece returns with their new album Coherence, proving themselves to be on top of their game with their most ambitious project yet! Eight tracks on Coherence display BE’LAKOR’s impressive spectrum of musical abilities, ranging from 12-minutelong journeys on “Much More Was Lost” to the atmospheric, fully instrumental “Sweep of Days”.

Tracklist: 1. Locus 2. The Dispersion 3. Foothold 4. Valence 5. Sweep of Days 6. Hidden Window 7. Indelible 8. Much More Was Lost Lineup John Richardson - Bass Shaun Sykes - Guitars (lead) George Kosmas - Guitars, Vocals Steve Merry - Keyboards, Piano Elliott Sansom - Drums

Thulcandra Melodic Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album A Dying Wish on October 29, 2021.

Death metal veterans THULCANDRA are back! Since its foundation in 2003 by Steffen Kummerer (mastermind of Obscura), THULCANDRA has established themselves in the European extreme metal scene. It’s their fourth studio album after six years of silence. A Dying Wish was produced, mixed and mastered at Unisound Studio by the renowned Dan Swanö (Dissection, Opeth, Bloodbath, Katatonia and more). It’s again a journey back in time to the origins of the genre, as it was musically and visually shaped by bands like Dissection, Entombed, Sacramentum and Unanimated. On A Dying Wish, the four-piece around Steffen Kummerer o n c e

again draws the listener into dark 3. Orchard of Grievance and cold soundscapes. A Dying 4. In Vain Wish is a detailed album that 5. Nocturnal Heresy combines clashing guitars and 6. The Slivering Silver epic mid-tempo moments with 7. In Bleak Misery discreet acoustic guitars and rapid 8. A Shining Abyss outbursts to create a versatile and 9. Devouring Darkness rich sound. It’s an homage to classic 10. A Dying Wish death metal, performed at an 11. The Spirit of the Night inarguably technically proficient (Live) level, keeping the tradition of Jon 12. Night’s Blood (Live) Nötveidt’s Dissection sound alive (Dissection cover) and worthy.

Tracklist Lineup 1. Funeral Pyre Steffen Kummerer - Vocals, 2. Scarred Grandeur Guitars Erebor - Drums M. Delastik Guitars Christian Kratzer (R.I.P. 2020) - Bass

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Helheim Viking/Black Metal band from Norway released the eleventh Full-length album Woduridar on October 29, 2021.

The harshness and extreme sounds of “WoduridaR”, is a return to the roots for the viking metal legends Helheim. The album is a result of a fusion between their former releases “LandawarijaR” and “Rignir”, and they’ve returned to the aggression one could hear on “LandawarijaR”. However, as “Rignir” presented something new and exciting

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that the band enjoyed, a lot of the atmospheres, focus of melodies and the use of clean vocals is also a big part of the new album.

“WoduridaR” is an Old Norse word, that can be translated to “the wild rider”. You can draw lines from that to Odins many names and meanings. For Helheim and their new album, all the songs are conceptual free from each other, and tells their own story.

It has never looked darker in the realm of Helheim, and songs like “Tankesmed” and “Litil vis madr” is good examples for that.

Tracklist 1. Vilje av stål 2. Forrang for fiender 3. Woduridar 4. Åndsfilosofen 5. Ni s soli sot 6. Litil vis made 7. Tankesmed 8. Det kommer i bølger 9. Hazzard

Carnival of Flesh Symphonic Black Metal band from Serbia released the second Full-length album Anthems of Extinction on November 1, 2021.

The story of Carnival of Flesh starts in late 2002, when two guys, Dachaz and Dam, wanted to reshape the Serbian black metal scene with a sound that escapes the traditional black Metal boundaries. This sound was commonly described as a refreshing mix of heavier guitars and more mindblowing symphonies than usual.

Fuelled by profound misanthropy and driven by humanity’s hunger for environmental and social decay, they forge the opus that truly is a sign of the times.

“Anthems of Extinction”, was recorded in mid-2021. and

released in November of the same year, followed by a local Lineup tour.

Dam - Keyboards Dachaz - Vocals Tracklist Vorat - Drums 1. Angst TarKalion - Guitars, Bass 2. The One 3. Tropical Plunder 4. Can of Sorrow 5. Mask of Humanity 6. Rapacity 7. The Great Escape 8. Liberation 9. Requiem for a World

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Omnium Gatherum Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the ninth Full-length album Origin on November 5, 2021.

Omnium Gatherum is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Finland, founded in the autumn of 1996. Although the band mainly follows the path of the melodic death metal genre, much of their work shows strong influences from progressive metal, especially their later albums.

The band name is a Latin phrase that is literally

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translated as «a grouping of all things.» It does not specifically infer this as people, objects, or intangibles but simply as anything and everything.

Lineup Markus Vanhala - Guitars Tuomo Latvala - Drums Aapo Koivisto - Keyboards Mikko Kivistö - Bass Jukka Pelkonen - Vocals, Lyrics

Tracklist 1. Emergence 2.Prime 3.Paragon 4.Reckoning 5.Fortitude 6.Friction 7.Tempest 8.Unity 9.Solemn 10.In Front Of Me (cover version)

Bryan Eckermann Melodic Black/Death Metal band from United States released the eighth Full-length album Plague Bringers on November 5, 2021.

Bryan’s latest effort is Plague Bringers, which serves as Part II to his 2018 concept album, Winters Plague (The Final Eclipse).

Winters Plague (The Final Eclipse), or Part I, detailed an alien invasion of earth by blocking out the sun with a giant ship and freezing the planet in which humanity inevitably arises to defeat the aliens. Plague Bringers, or Part II, details the aftermath from the aliens’ perspective as they resurrect their long dead queen, clone an army, and escape their dying planet to enter earth once more. Using the power of a magic orb they open a portal through space, then hide in the darkness, manipulating humans’ minds to force mass suicides in their attempt

at revenge. The mission however is in itself a suicide mission without their ship anymore to block out the sun (which is their weakness), they know they will perish along with the humans, leaving earth as a mass grave of emptiness...

«Tomorrow is a lie, we won’t survive» but revenge is sweet.

Tracklist 1. Ice Queen 2. Sands of the Hourglass 3. The Devouring Sun 4. Reflections in a Dirty Mirror 5.

Moonlight and Frostbite

6. Plague Bringers 7. An Oath of Scrying Souls 8. Astral Realms 9. Skinwalker 10. Of Death and Decay 11. Tomorrow’s Lie 12. Oblivion Lineup Bryan Eckermann - Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals

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Bornholm Black Metal band from Hungary released the fifth Full-length album Apotheosis on November 5, 2021.

Apotheosis not only showcases BORNHOLM’s tonal development, but also goes back to the origins of the band’s history and the heavy, often almost doomy influences mixed with indispensable atmospherically dark and raw flavor.

Accompanied by sinister sacral sounds of historic proportions and a hypnotizing, incantatory chant, intro track «»I Divine»» heralds the dark ride to nowhere. It is precisely in the void between Pagan and Black Metal that the sound finds its home, with tracks

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like “Spiritual Warfare” and “Black Shining Cloaks” - including its sinister, atmospheric intro “The Key to the Shaft of the Abyss”representing the mellowness and extremes of the band. The almost melodic borrowings and acoustic guitar inserts in combination with the pure rawness of “To the Fallen” and the hammering fast attacks of the track “I am War God” highlight the band’s variety and sonic progression. The title track “Apotheosis” is a slow, howling homage mixing aggressive, shrieking vocals and melodiously grim anecdotes. Album closer “Enthronement” closes the metaphorical and musical bracket and provides the 52-minute piece with a venerable, instrumental conclusion.

Tracklist 1. I Divine 2. My Evangelium 3. Sky Serpents 4. The Key to the Shaft of the Abyss 5. Black Shining Cloaks 6. Spiritual Warfare 7. Darkened Grove 8. To the Fallen 9. I Am War God 10. Apotheosis 11. Enthronement

Unleashed Death Metal band from Sweden released the fourteenth Full-length album No Sign of Life on November 12, 2021.

Swedish Death Metal Legends UNLEASHED are back to defend their throne! With the release of their 14th full length studio album No Sign Of Life on November 12 2021, the Death Metal pioneers that influenced a whole musical genre deliver another work of sheer brutality.

Formed back in 1989 by Johnny Hedlund, UNLEASHED have been delivering supreme Death Metal in the sign of their Viking ancestors from day one! The Einherjar legions of Asgard transfer Viking values and traditions into modernity and forge another uncompromising musical weapon.

The rage paves its way straight from the first notes of the album opener “The

King Lost His Crown” and leaves no time to breathe during the entire playing time. The album unfolds as an unstoppable war battalion and builds up on UNLEASHED’s well established trademark sounds and lyrics. Accompanied by shouts hailing Odin, heavy guitar riffs take no prisoners on “The Highest Ideal”, until the album finds a glorious end on “Here at the End of the World”.

The Chief Vikings of Swedish Death Metal manage to play modern sounding old school Death Metal and leave no doubt that they are still true to their roots

after 32 years of existence.

UNLEASHED are and stay the unchallenged leaders of Sweden’s Death Metal forefathers. Hail Odin!

Tracklist 1. The King Lost His Crown 2. The Shepherd Has Left the Flock 3. Where Can You Flee?

4. You Are the Warrior!

5. No Sign of Life 6. The Highest Ideal 7. Midgard Warriors for Life 8. Did You Struggle with God? 9. Tyr Wields the Sword 10. It Is Finished 11. Here at the End of the World

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Swallow the Sun Melodic Doom/Death Metal band from Finland released the eighth Fulllength album Moonflowers on November 19, 2021.

At 52-minutes, Moonflowers is an eight-song affair that drives deep into the heart of Swallow The Sun main songwriter Juha Raivio’s disconsolate soul.

From the dramatic “Enemy” and the grim “This House Has No Home” to the delicate “Moonflowers Bloom in Misery” and the beauteous “The Fight of Your Life,”

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Moonflowers is as rewarding and dynamic as it is accomplished and intimate. That it features Cammie Gilbert (Oceans of Slumber), Antti Hyyrynen (Stam1na), and Trio NOX—who perform a rearranged classical version of Moonflowers in a Finnish church, which comes as a bonus album to some of the album formats—are more reasons to hold Swallow The Sun’s latest leap into the unknown in the highest regard.

Tracklist 1. Moonflowers Bloom in Misery 2. Enemy 3. Woven into Sorrow 4. Keep Your Heart Safe from Me 5. All Hallow’s Grieve 6. The Void 7. The Fight of Your Life 8. This House Has No Home

Obscura Progressive/Technical Death Metal band from Germany released the sixth Full-length album A Valediction on November 19, 2021.

Germany-based metal band OBSCURA launch trilogy concept on stunning new album “A Valediction”.

The group’s first (sixth overall) album for Nuclear Blast pivots on many fronts. Advanced, elegant, and yet refreshing, “A Valediction” sums up past endeavors effortlessly as it gazes with purpose and conviction into the future. OBSCURA are fanrenowned and critically acclaimed for challenging and then expanding upon norms. From “Cosmogenesis” (2009) through “Diluvium” (2018), the band flourished and made significant progress in a musical genre unprepared for a creative shot of German invention. “A Valediction” spearheads OBSCURA into a new era of extreme metal.

Lyrically, “A Valediction” is layered in structure and meaning.

The word ‘valediction,’ by definition, deals with goodbyes and farewells.

In a way, this is auf wiedersehen to the fourpart album series while also addressing complex

topics of Kummerer’s personal life. Instead of obscuring issues of loss, death, and abandonment in metaphor and allusion, the German laid bare his torment across songs like ‘Forsaken,’ ‘Solaris,’ ‘In Unity,’ ‘The Neuromancer,’ and ‘In Adversity.’ But for every line of desperation, he also offers positivity.

Indeed, new beginnings—physical, emotional, or environmental—can provide light in the darkness.

Tracklist 1. Forsaken 2. Solaris 3. A Valediction 4. When Stars Collide 5. In Unity 6. Devoured Usurper 7. The Beyond

8. Orbital Elements II 9. The Neuromancer 10. In Adversity 11. Heritage Lineup Steffen Kummerer - Guitars, Vocals, Lyrics, Songwriting (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7-11) Jeroen Paul Thesseling - Bass (fretless), Songwriting (track 8) Christian Münzner - Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-10) David Diepold - Drums

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Exodus Thrash Metal band from United States released the eleventh Full-length album Persona Non Grata on November 19, 2021.

When we think of the phrase Bonded By Blood, we think of two things: a brotherhood that is meant to outlast the trials of war, pain, and time... and the almighty EXODUS. With a bond forged in youth and decades-old friendship, the undisputed masters of thrash metal return with their eleventh studio album: PERSONA NON GRATA.

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Literally translating to “an unwelcome” or “unacceptable” person, PERSONA NON GRATA touches on themes of modern societal disgust and degradation.

“The people that disgust you cut ‘em out like cancer,” explains guitarist Gary Holt. “Who is that person? It could be anybody.

That’s up to the listener. Who is ‘Persona Non Grata’ to them?”

Tracklist 1. Persona Non Grata 2. R.E.M.F. 3. Slipping into Madness 4. Elitist 5. Prescribing Horror 6. The Beatings Will Continue (Until Morale Improves) 7. The Years of Death and Dying 8. Clickbait 9. Cosa del Pantano 10. Lunatic-Liar-Lord 11. The Fires of Division 12. Antiseed

Whoredom Rife Black Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album Winds of Wrath on November 25, 2021.

Epic and grandiose, melancholic and utterly aggressive; Winds of Wrath is truly a tumultuous ride to Hell and back.

The album was written, recorded and performed by V.Einride, as always aided by vocalist K.R, whose vocal performance on this album is downright frightening.

Rarely do one hear a vocalist spew forth hatred in such a convincing manner.

Winds of Wrath is perhaps their most complete album to date in all regards, and features stunning performances by both members, as the band still to this day remains a

two-piece act. leaders of Sweden’s Death Metal forefathers. Hail Odin!

Tracklist 1. Curse of the Moon 2.

A Thousand Graves Endured 3. Gospel of Hate 4. Hav av Sykdoms Blod 5. Winds of Wrath 6. Einride

Lineup V. Einride - All instruments, Songwriting, Lyrics K.R - Vocals

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Hypocrisy Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden released the thirteenth Fulllength album Worship on November 26, 2021.

With governments finally admitting that UFOs do in fact exist, and humanity attempting to heal from a state of recent crisis, the timing couldn’t be more appropriate for the newest addition to the HYPOCRISY catalog: WORSHIP. Aptly titled, the album cover shows a mass of humans reaching up mindlessly to the sky as glowing spaceships shaped like the HYPOCRISY crosses sigil beam down to descend upon earthen civilizations and Mayan temples.

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Designed by artist Blake Armstrong (Kataklysm, In Flames, Carnifex, etc.), WORSHIP’s artwork speaks to the history of the relationship between humanity and extraterrestrials. “They’re coming back to collect,” explains founder and HYPOCRISY mastermind Peter Tagtgren.

It has been 8 long years since the last record, and HYPOCRISY fans can feel the itch.

WORSHIP is 11 tracks of precise, ferocious musicianship. Commonly inspired by the fusion of the modern and the ancient, HYPOCRISY has once more found a way to combine innovative ideas with classic sound in order to deliver something metalheads can enjoyably consume with awe and brutal vigor.

Tracklist 1. Worship 2. Chemical Whore 3. Greedy Bastards 4. Dead World 5. We’re the Walking Dead 6. Brotherhood of the Serpent 7. Children of the Gray 8. Another Day 9. They Will Arrive 10. Bug in the Net 11. Gods of the Underground Lineup Peter Tägtgren - Guitars, Vocals, Bass Mikael Hedlund - Bass Horgh - Drums

Archgoat Black Metal band from Finland released the fifth Full-length album Worship the Eternal Darkness on November 26, 2021.

32 years after formation, Finnish iconoclasts ARCHGOAT stand monolithic as one of the most nightmarishly singular bands in extreme music. Helmed with preternatural telepathy by twin brothers Ritual Butcherer (guitars/composition) and Lord Angelslayer (bass/vocals), newest emission “Worship the Eternal Darkness” is a typically depraved set built to mock our contemporary malaise.

Continuing on from preceding album “The Luciferian Crown” the hoofpressure is slightly alleviated from the throat, the band’s patented synthesis of occult Finnish Black/Death Metal, harsh Punk, primal Thrash and Grindcore is tempered here with elements of melodic dynamism: a

rhythmic crush less unrelenting, horrorshow vocals slightly more intelligible, a production shorn of murk highlighting potent synthsorcery and welcome NWOBHM influences, not least guitar solos of old-school finesse.

Recorded over 2 days in foulest 2021 and clad-as-ever in immortal Chris Moyen artwork, “Worship the Eternal Darkness” has all the thematic unity, arcane knowledge, otherworldly class and divine filth expected from a legendary band stoking underground hellfire which burn stronger than ever.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Heavens Ablaze 3. Black Womb Gnosis 4. All Christianity Ends

5. In Extremis Nazarene 6. Rats Pray God 7. Empyrean Armageddon 8. Blessed in the Light of Lucifer 9. Worship the Eternal Darkness 10. Burial of Creation Lineup Lord Angelslayer - Bass, Vocals Ritual Butcherer - Guitars Goat Aggressor - Drums

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Unanimated Melodic Death/Black Metal band from Sweden released the fourth Full-length album Victory in Blood on December 3, 2021.

Victory In Blood is the band’s first studio album in over 10 years and offers fresh material for the first time after the highly acclaimed 2018 EP «Annihilation». The new long-player can be counted as another milestone in the long band history of Unanimated and proves that they are still true masters of Nordic Black/Death Metal with insane melodies!

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The truly incredible artwork and layout was handled by none other than Daniele Valeriani (Mayhem, Triptykon, Behemoth, Dissection, etc. – just to name a few).

Lineup Jonas Deroueche - Guitars Johan Bohlin - Guitars Richard Cabeza - Bass Micke Broberg - Vocals Anders Schultz - Drums

Tracklist 1. Victory in Blood 2. Seven Mouths of Madness 3. As the Night Takes Us 4. The Devil Rides Out 5. With a Cold Embrace 6. Demon Pact (Mysterium Tremendum) 7. XIII 8. Scepter of Vengeance 9. Chaos Ascends 10. The Golden Dawn of Murder 11. Divine Hunger 12. The Poetry of the Scarred Earth

Ofermod Black/Death Metal band from Sweden released the fifth Full-length album Mysterium Iniquitatis on December 3, 2021.

Formed back in the dark days of 1996, the band released their debut EP, Mystérion Tés Anomias, in 1998. Although a mere two songs, OFERMOD’s opening salvo sowed the seeds for the orthodox black metal movement that would begin to blossom in the new millennium. Crime and chaos followed mainman Belfagor everywhere he went, and the band’s momentum remained halted. However, OFERMOD eventually became a working entity again, starting with 2008’s Tiamtü full-length, and through magick and will did more recordings follow: Thaumiel (2012), the two-song Serpents’ Dance EP (2014), Sol Nox (2017), and the posthumous Pentagrammaton, originally intended to be

the band’s debut album. Each one put forth a pivotal piece of the everevolving puzzle of OFERMOD – ever the same, yet always different.

The production – courtesy of Andersson at Endarker Studios – cuts like a gleaming knife and rusty axe simultaneously, the perfect iron-fisted complement to the band’s ever-surging and ceaselessly unfolding songwriting here. Special mention must be made of the male choirs on the opening title track – courtesy of Thomas Ericksson (Year of the Goat) and Lars Broddesson (exMARDUK)

– conveying a grandiosity beyond compare.

Tracklist 1. Mysterium Iniquitatis 2. Inax Ya Lil 3. When the Blacksmith Killed the Shepherd 4. Arteria Uterina 5. Sacrosanctus 6. Poraios De Rejectis 7. Consecration 8. Loyal to Belial Lineup Belfagor - Guitars Nebiros - Vocals

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