Archiac Oath – Determined to Death and Beyond: Album Review
Determined to Death and Beyond is the debut album that doesn’t just announce Archaic Oath, but screams it from the mountain peaks with a ferocity that puts bands twice their size to shame.
Wrang – Verwording: Album Review
Wrang have spent over a decade developing their sound within the Netherlands’ increasingly vibrant black metal scene, and with Verwording, their third full-length, they’ve crafted their most cohesive work to date.
Riverflame – Lunar Crusades: Album Review
Riverflame is new band formed from members of Ponte Del Diavolo and Hail Spirit Noir. They create a proper journey back to the heroic times of old.
Sicarius – Nex: Album Review
Sicarius mark the return of founding member Argyris with third album, Nex.
Blackbraid w/ Winterfylleth & Noctem – Rebellion, Manchester: Live Review
American black metal outfit Blackbraid arrive in Manchester with hometown heroes, Winterfylleth. It’s sold out, it’s Friday night…the perfect melting pot.
Panopticon w/ Sunken – The Dome, London: Live Review
Panopticon land in London in support of their forthcoming new album, Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet. Support comes from Sunken.
Këkht Aräkh – Morning Star: Album Review
Operating as Këkht Aräkh, Dmitry Marchenko has assembled a body of work that sits at an uncomfortable and entirely productive crossroads: black metal stripped of the genre’s more theatrical posturing and refitted with something rawer and more personal.
Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season: Album Review
Winterfylleth are back with The Unyielding Season; album number nine, full of more soaring and epic black metal but this time, a harder edge.
Hellripper – Coronach: Album Review
Hellripper return with Coronach; another blistering collection of speed metal rooted on Scottish folklore and heritage.
Antrisch – Expedition III: Album Review
Bavarian black metallers Antrisch live up to their namesake in this eerie and haunting exploration of the adventures of the conquistador Lope de Aguirre.
Saor w/ Cistvaen & Oakenthrone – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh: Live Review
Saor bring Amidst The Ruins back home to Scotland after a short run of dates around the UK. Cistvaen and Oakenthrone are in support.
Blasfeme w/ Dreich and Napierdalac – The Fenton, Leeds: Album Review
A packed Friday night at The Fenton, courtesy of Rolling In The Grave Promotions brings together three very different flavours of black metal. Small room, loud crowd, and exactly the sort of sweaty underground show Leeds does best.
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir: Album Review
Norway’s Rosa Faenskap return with the powerful new album “Ingenting Forblir” (Norwegian for “nothing lasts”). The album, like the band is “a declaration of love for – as well as a declaration of war against – black metal itself.
Saille – Forebode: Album Review
Forebode takes Saille back to their roots while upping production values and retaining their songwriting prowess.
Misotheist – De Pinte: Album Review
Norwegian black metallers Misotheist present their fourth full-length via Terratur Possessions and distributed by Amor Fati Productions. De Pinte is the follow up to 2024’s Vessels By Which The Devil Is Made Flesh.