German Black Metal act Kathaaria have just put out a brand new album, titled "To Be Shunned by All​.​.​.​ As Centres of Pestilence", which is the band's first release of any kind since their 2008 debut, "The Complex Void of Negativity". The new album was released on the 23rd of September via End All Life Productions in collaboration with Norma Evangelium Diaboli. To celebrate the release, the entire thing is up for streaming online, check it out:

Norma Evangelium Diaboli elaborated on the album's style and how the passage of time since their debut has played into the release:

“To be ...

On the 30th of September, German Pagan Black Metal band Firtan will release what marks their third full-length album, "Marter", which will be handled by Art of Propaganda Records. In the past months, the label has so far put out a total of three tracks from the album, the most recent of which, "Faðir", went live last Thursday:

In case you missed them, here's "Amor Fati" and "Labsal", which were released at the beginning and end of August respectively:

"Marter" will be Firtan's first release of any kind since their 2018 effort, "Okeanos", and features the following tracks:

Faðir Amo ...

Portuguese Black Metal act Gaerea have just released their latest studio album, titled "Mirage", which was published through Season of Mist on the 23rd of September. To celebrate the release, the entire album is available for listening over at the label's YouTube channel, check it out:

Season of Mist described the band's style:

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty with full-length number three, "Mirage". Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the ...

German Black Metal act Erzfeynd have just revealed one of the songs from the project's upcoming debut full-length album, "Muspilli". The new song is titled "Victus", and is the album's closing track, check it out:

The label briefly touched on the song's themes:

The journey through the Eschaton ends here, bearing witness to the Grand Celestial Fire as God's Lamb shrouded in Man's harness unlocks the abyss to devour us all.

"Muspilli" will be released on the 30th of September through Ván Records in digipack CD and vinyl LP formats, while Messe Noire Productions will handle the release ...

Québécois Black Metal newcomers Rafales have just premiered their debut studio album, which is titled "La Tempête des Morts", and was self-released yesterday. To celebrate the release, the entire album is streaming online via the BMP YouTube channel:

"La Tempête des Morts" features a total of five tracks, and clocks in at a little over half an hour in length:

Les Guerriers Vaincus Le Sang des Ombres La Tempête des Morts Le Tombeau des Mers Les Terres Oubliées

The cover art was designed by Armenian musician and artist Mark Erskine:

You can ...

The 25th of November marks the release date for the debut album by Denver-based Black Metal formation Lykotonon. The album, titled "Promethean Pathology", will be released via Profound Lore Records, with one of the tracks already available for listening. Check out "That Which Stares in Kind" below:

Lykotonon is a relatively new band, although their members draw from a collective wealth of experience through the likes of Wayfarer, Stormkeep, Centimani and Blood Incantation. The label describes the band as:

[...] a digitized descent into the darker side of the human psyche. It is the ...

São Paulo Black Metal Thrashers Power From Hell are getting ready to unleash what will be their seventh full-length album, "Shadows Devouring Light", which drops on the 30th of September via French label Debemur Morti Productions. While we wait, the entire album is now being streamed in full over at the BMP YouTube channel:

"Shadows Devouring Light" features a total of 10 new tracks:

Forsaken by the Father Silence The Serpent's Earthly Throne Shadows Devouring Light Primordial Impurity Mother of Abominations Wings of Perdition Eve's Holy Vulva Adversary of Creation Summoning the ...

German Black / Death Metal act Pale Spektre have just unleashed one of the tracks from their upcoming debut album. Check out "Of Gaping Hollow's Grate":

The album will be titled "Bereft of Xerotic Layers", and will be released on vinyl LP and CD formats by Amor Fati Productions & Nuclear War Now!

Stay tuned for more info.

On Monday the 19th of September, German Black / Death Metal duo Hadopelagyal released their debut full-length album, titled "Nereidean Seismic End". The album was released on vinyl and CD formats by Ván Records, with the cassette format handled by Amor Fati Productions. To celebrate the release, the entire album is up for streaming via the Ván Records channel, check it out:

"Nereidean Seismic End" features seven tracks in total:

Depravity Shall Triumph Intertidal Terrorrealm The Morning Carried a Feeble Sun, a Solitary Sphere of Embers Blades Drawn from the Iron Marrow of the Sunken ...

Earlier this month, Austrian Black Metal act Theotoxin put out a brand new music video for the song "World, Burn for Us", the opening track from their upcoming full-length, "Fragment : Totenruhe". Now, the album's third track, "Towards the Chasm", has also been made available for listening

Here's the aforementioned music video in case you missed it:

"Fragment : Totenruhe" is due for release on the 28th of October via AOP Records, marking the band's fourth studio album, and their second in the "Fragment" series, following "Fragment : Erhabenheit" which was released in 2020. "Fragment : ...