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Fourth and last album, this is Emperor´s swansong. The band left the death metal field for a more symphonic and metal opus.

Giving a follow up to a masterpiece like Black shining leatherà was hard, but C.F. confirms their unique class in creating a waird opus like this, true Black Metal.
 

the new album from UK progressive death/thrash unit Cryptic Shift blasts listeners into even stranger realms of sound and science-fiction storytelling. With 5 expansive tracks, “Overspace & Supertime” builds on the conceptual universe of Visitations From Enceladus, blending technical fury with cosmic narrative depth.

“The Crawl” is the new album from Detroit’s death metal force, set for release on March 6, 2026 via Relapse Records. The band’s fifth full-length blends raw death metal power with broader dynamics and influences beyond traditional death-doom, delivering a crushing and intense sonic experience. Tracked in a single frigid week at GodCity Studio with producer Kurt Ballou, the record tackles themes of life, choices, and consequences across seven punishing tracks like Poison Icon and Godless Cynic

EXHUMED – “Red Asphalt” is the latest album from the gore metal veterans, set for release on February 20, 2026 via Relapse Records. This high-octane deathgrind assault hits hard with blistering riffs and relentless grooves inspired by the brutal realities of life on the road. From the lead single “Unsafe At Any Speed” to the twisted “Shovelhead,” every track delivers pure extreme metal intensity.  

VIA DOLORIS is the singular vision of Gildas Le Pape, shaped by solitude, discipline, and an uncompromising sense of craft. Rooted in Nordic black metal tradition yet guided by melody and introspection, the project traces a deeply personal inner journey. “Guerre et Paix” is an album of tension and balance, where shadow and light coexist in measured dialogue. Across seven expansive compositions, VIA DOLORIS explores the fragile architecture of the human psyche, moving through despair, rupture, and fleeting moments of clarity. The music favours restraint over excess, allowing melody to lead with quiet authority. Guitars unfold in long, expressive arcs, while rhythms remain deliberate and grounded, anchored by the nuanced drumming of Frost (Satyricon, 1349). Shifting between French, English, and Norwegian, language carries its own emotional gravity. Folk and pagan echoes surface subtly, lending the album a timeless, almost ritualistic atmosphere. For fans of BATHORY, SATYRICON, KAMPFAR. Artwork by Linnea Syversen

Oromet presents atmospheric funeral doom with a melodic emphasis without surrendering the all-encompassing heaviness that is the genre's hallmark. Where some seek to immiserate and drown the listener, Oromet explores the complete nature of sorrow as the band weaves the choke of despair and the lightness of serenity. The Sinking Isle focuses on the inevitability of collapse and the cycles of ruin and rebirth. Adrift on cataclysmic seas, melody remains the compass—a hopeful light guiding the listener through themes of loss, nostalgia, and pessimism.

For fans of Mournful Congregation, Bell Witch & Esoteric.

Experience the new double album from Paul Riedl (hanging moss) that crystallizes the stargazing Kosmische drones, meditative Deep Space Ambience & wistful New Age/Folk melodicism of his myriad musical personalities into a compelling synthesis of gentle, cinematic starscapes & pastoral acoustic environments. 1.5 hours of Cosmic Music well suited for meditation or other astral travel. Limited edition gatefold 2LP set on 140g crystal clear vinyl, hand numbered out of 500.

1.5 hours of Cosmic Music from a member of Blood Incantation

Hand-numbered 2xLP pressed on clear vinyl.

2xCD version features a 12-minute bonus track

Malum is set to release their next chapter, From the Voids. While firmly rooted in Malum’s established sonic foundation, the album is more aggressive, continuing the confrontational path introduced on Towards Nothingness. It is driven by anger and stands as a ruthless observation of the world as it appears — dark, broken, and hollow. 

The forthcoming full length consists of six tracks and does not abandon the band’s core identity but drives it forward with greater force and clarity. Having refined its expression into a cold and faceless descent toward inner collapse and existential void, Malum directs that vision beyond introspection. The music is sharpened to its core, carrying Malum’s bleak vision without compromise. 

Malum rose from the ashes as a brand-new entity in the Norwegian underground scene. Their prime directive is raw, atmospheric and melodic black metal — with a sound rooted in the bleak traditions of the second wave of black metal and shaped by modern existentialism and nihilism. Malum delivers music that is both oppressive and cathartic and has carved a path through Norway’s underground with raw intensity and philosophical depth. 

Malum is not merely a band — it is a confrontation. With the self. With silence. With nothingness.