Swedish black metal pioneers BATHORY, have been inducted into the Swedish Music Hall Of Fame as of May 27. The induction took place alongside Py Bäckman, Björn Skifs, Timbuktu, and Lisa Nilsson as part of their Class of 2021. “Long before Swedish heavy metal became a successful export, BATHORY existed,” said the Swedish Music Hall...
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Melodic Death Metal Masters THE ABSENCE Drop New Song ‘Black Providence’
Melodic death metal masters THE ABSENCE have premiered their latest song and video “Black Providence which can be seen/heard below. “We have never been ones to shy away from a slower tempo. And on ‘Black Providence’, the sheer density becomes whole within the monolithic cadence,” said vocalist Jamie Stewart. “Sometimes we find ourselves afraid to...
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MITOCHONDRIAL SUN (Ex-DARK TRANQUILLITY) Gets Industrial With “Sic Transit Anima Mundi”
MITOCHONDRIAL SUN, the project headed up by ex-DARK TRANQUILITY guitarist Niklas Sundin, will release a new EP titled ‘Bodies And Gold’ on September 10. You can stream the heavily industrial new single “Sic Transit Anima Mundi” just below this article. ‘Bodies And Gold’ features contributions from keyboardist Martin Brändström (DARK TRANQUILITY), cellist Annika Blomfeldt, and...
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ENSLAVED Unleash New Cinematic Performance Of “Fenris”
ENSLAVED played a number of cinematic shows last year under the moniker of ‘The Cinematic Tour 2020’, being that attending live shows in 2020 was just not possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ENSLAVED is now streaming “Fenris” from the Chronicles of the Northbound (Cinematic Tour 2020) portion, which bassist and vocalist Grutle Kjellson said...
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AT THE GATES Streams New Song “The Paradox”
AT THE GATES are now streaming their new single “The Paradox”, which can be heard just below this article. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming release ‘The Nightmare of Being’, which was was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren, and is due out on July 2 via Century Media Records. ‘The Nightmare of...
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AMON AMARTH Re-Records ‘Masters Of War’ For 20th Anniversary Of ‘The Crusher’
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of their third full-length album, “The Crusher”, Sweden’s AMON AMARTH have released a special, re-recorded version of the track “Masters Of War” which you can check out below. Speaking on the band’s celebratory re-working of “Masters Of War”, frontman Johan Hegg says: “Celebrating the 20th anniversary of ‘The Crusher’...
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SATYRICON Launching ‘Satyricon & Munch’ Exhibit Merging Black Metal And Visual Art
SATYRICON have teamed up with Munch Museum for an upcoming exhibit, set to open in Oslo, Norway in early 2022. The exhibition “Satyricon & Munch” explores the intersection of black metal and visual art, where a specially composed musical work is connected with a selection of Edvard Munch’s images. When you enter the large hall...
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NIGHTWISH’s TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN Releasing New DARKWOODS MY BETHROTHED Album
NIGHTWISH keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen recently spoke to Kaaos TV about the upcoming album from his black metal project DARKWOODS MY BETHROTHED. The new album, titled “Angel Of Carnage Unleashed”, should arrive sometime this year and marks DARKWOODS MY BETHROTHED’s first collection of new songs since the release of “Witch-Hunts”, which came out over twenty years...
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Extreme Metal Legends PESTILENCE Unleash Menacing New Song “Deificvs”
PESTILENCE have unleashed the official music video for the song ‘Deificvs’ from the band’s forthcoming ninth studio album, “Exitivm”, which drops on June 25 via Agonia Records. Back in 1986, in the small town of Enschede in the Netherlands, near the German border, a true metal phenomenon was born. More than three decades later, not...
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DESTRUCTION Announce New Live Blu-Ray, ‘Live Attack’; Watch ‘Mad Butcher’
German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION will release a new Blu-ray and CD, “Live Attack”, on August 13 via Napalm Records. It follows their latest record, “Born To Perish”, recalling a nearly two-hour livestream attack the band unleashed in January this year. Dive deep into DESTRUCTION’s history with the first crushing single and energetic live video...