Italian Ambient Black Metal project Lord Agheros have just released their fourth full length album, titled "Demiurgo". The entire album is available for streaming at the band's official Bandcamp profile:



Several songs previously uploaded to YouTube have been promoted by the band on their Facebook profile:



Lord Agheros is a solo project created in 1999 by Gerassimos Evangelou and based in Catania, Sicily, although the project did not produce any official releases until 2007.

Lord Agheros - Demiurgo is now available on Amazon.com.

We have just uploaded our 1,000th video to our official BestBlackMetalAlbums.com YouTube Channel. The video is for the song "Impure Blood Shall Flow" from the album "L'Élu du Mal" by French Black Metal band Bekhira:

This means that there are now 1,000 albums in our database that feature a YouTube preview. We will be taking a short break from the uploads while we concentrate on other aspects of the site. We are also approaching the 100,000 total views mark, and have just reached 380 subscribers. Thanks to everyone!

Irish Pagan Black Metal band Celtachor have just released their debut full length album, titled "Nine Waves from the Shore". The album has been self-released by the band, and is available at their official website which has just been launched.

The track list for the album is as follows:


The Landing: Amergin's Conquest
The Battle of Tailtin
The Kingship of Bodb Dearg
Sorrow of the Dagda
Tar éis an Sidhe
Conn of the Hundred Battles
Anann: Ermne's Daughter


Leading up to the album's release, the band made the opening track "The Landing: Amergin's Conquest" available fo ...

German Pagan Metal band Adorned Brood are due to release their eighth full length album today, titled "Kuningaz". The album will be the band's first release through German label Massacre Records.

The track list for the new album is the following:


Einkehr
Kuningaz
Call of the Wild
Victory or Valhall
Hugin
Men
Kreuzeslast
Just a Fight
Munin
A War Poem
We Are Legion


You can listen to previews of each song at the band's official site.

Adorned Brood - Kuningaz is now available on Amazon.com.

Norwegian Avant-garde Black Metal band Quadrivium are scheduled to be releasing their second full length album today, titled "Methocha", through Soulseller Records. The new album will be a follow-up to the band's debut, "Adversus", released in 2008.

The track list is as follows:


Methocha
Dead Syphon Focus
Eyes of Mimas
Orbital
Destroyer
Phobos Anomaly
The Labyrinth of Infinity
Blackbird Abiogenesis


The band recently made the title track "Methocha" available for streaming on their Soundcloud profile:



You can order the album here.

Greek Melodic Black / Death Metal band Septicflesh are due to be re-releasing their first five full length albums over the course of the following year through their current label Season of Mist, beginning with their 1994 debut album, "Mystic Places of Dawn". The re-issues will feature brand new cover art, as well as some bonus tracks.

The track list for the re-issue of "Mystic Places of Dawn" is as follows:


Mystic Places of Dawn
Pale Beauty of the Past
Return to Carthage
Crescent Moon
Chasing the Chimera
The Underwater Garden
Behind the Iron Mask
(Morpheus) The Dreamlord ...

Croatian Black Metal band Prognan have just released a new EP titled "Jama". The EP is a conceptual album dedicated to famous Croatian poet and writer Ivan Goran Kovačić, and the title "Jama" comes from the poem of the same name that he wrote during World War II. The lyrics for the title track "Jama" are the same as those originally written by Kovačić, and refer to the brutality and torture that was committed by the fascist Ustaše organization between 1930 and 1945, and the whole EP also revolves around this topic.

The complete track list for the "Jama" EP is as follows:


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German Pagan Metal band Finsterforst have just released their latest full length album today, titled "Rastlos". The album marks the band's third full length, and their first album to be released through Austrian label Napalm Records.

The complete track list for "Rastlos", which means "Restless" in German, is as follows:


Nichts Als Asche
Fremd
Am Scheideweg
Stirbt Zuletzt
Ein Lichtschein
Rast
Flammenrausch


Leading up to the album's release, a video for a shortened version of the first track, "Nichts Als Asche", was made available on Napalm Records' YouTube ...

Austrian Pagan Black Metal band Flammensturm are scheduled to be releasing their second full length album today, titled "Nur Für Den Augenblick". The new album is to be released through Austrian label Black Light Music, and features the following track list:


Intro
Unter rotem Mond
Drachenwege
All die Briefe die ich schrieb
Alte Geschichten
Des Waldes Geister
Trinklied
Feuer
Nicht eine Träne
Kälte
Vergewaltigt und am Boden
Soweit der Wind mich trägt
Schärfe dein Schwert
Nur für den Augenblick


This will be the band's second release, ...

The influence that the German Thrash Metal pioneers Destruction have had on the evolution of Black Metal since the very early days, as well as extreme metal as a whole, is beyond doubt, so the least we could do is give them an occasional mention in the news section.

Destruction have today released their 13th full length album, titled "Spiritual Genocide", through their label Nuclear Blast, coinciding with the band's 30th anniversary. Leading up to the album's release, the band made a music video for the song "Carnivore" which was made available on the official Metal Hammer YouTube ...