Black metal pioneers DARKTHRONE have released the new song “Hate Cloak”, which can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “Eternal Hails……”, which arrives on June 25 via Peaceville. “Hate Cloak” is a nine-minute, 17-second Fenriz-penned hallowed epic which is steeped in the majestic thunder of vintage heavy doom metal....
The infamous black metal band that is MAYHEM return this year with an EP called “Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando” with additional material from the “Daemon” session, including a homage to bands that laid the foundation for what was to come. The EP will be released on July 9. The official music video for the...
On Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, 2022, a worldwide contingent of music fans will convene at Houston’s White Oak Music Hall as Pegstar Concerts presents the Hell’s Heroes festival. The two-day music fest will showcase a hand-picked selection of international underground metal bands that includes both seminal, genre-pioneers, highly regarded modern-day groups and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...