French Ambient Black Metal band Blut Aus Nord have made their entire upcoming album, "777 - Cosmosophy", available for streaming online. The new album, featuring five new tracks, has been made available for listening exclusively at French webzine obskuremag.net.

Click here to stream the entire "Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy" album online.

"777 - Cosmosophy" will mark the band's 10th full length release, and the third and final album in their "777" trilogy, with the first two albums, "777 - Sect(s)" and "777 - The Desanctification", being released in April 2011 and November 2011 ...

Norwegian Progressive / Viking Black Metal legends Enslaved have made another song from their upcoming album available for online streaming. The new song, titled "Veilburner", is available exclusively at German webzine Metal-Hammer.de. This marks the second song to be made available from the new album, with the first one, Thoughts Like Hammers, being available since the end of August.

Click here to listen to "Enslaved - Veilburner" online from the Metal-Hammer.de website.

The new album, titled "RIITIIR", will be Enslaved's 12th full length album to be released since the band's formation ...

In our latest site update we have added a brand new Black Metal Album Reviews section in order to neatly gather in one place all albums that have been reviewed. The links to the new section appear in the Quick Search links section of the header, as well as the first dropdown menu, and also in Latest Reviews & Updates side-box on news pages.

The albums in this section are ordered by Last Updated by default, although all other order modes are still available, and as always the selected order is retained upon clicking the Next and Previous buttons once on the specific album page.

Anothe ...

Romanian Pagan Black Metal band Dordeduh have released a new video for a song from their upcoming debut full length album. The song is titled "Dojana", and will be the final track on the album. The band has revealed some information regarding the background for the video on their official Facebook page:

Finally the first video of Dordeduh is out. We're choosing as a filming place an old, quite unknown Dacian fortress, placed deep into the Apuseni Mountains. The place is surrounded by an unusual forest, called locally 'the forest without a face'. This place was the subject of many mysterious ...

Austrian Epic / Atmospheric Black Metal warriors Summoning have recently announced that they have just finished writing material for a new album and will soon enter the studio to begin the recording process. This will mark their seventh full length album, and their first studio recording in six years since the release of "Oath Bound" in 2006.

The new album is still untitled, although the band has revealed that there will be a total of eight songs, and that the release date is scheduled for early 2013 through Napalm Records.

Summoning formed in 1993 in Vienna, Austria, and since then they ...

Austrian Pagan Black Metal band Flammensturm will be releasing their second album, titled "Nur Für Den Augenblick", on the 23rd of November. Coincidentally their first album, "Die Feuer Sind Entfacht", recently marked the 2,000th album to be added to our database.

"Nur Für Den Augenblick", which roughly translates to "Only for the Moment", has 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 ...

Czech Black Metal band Trollech are set to release their next album, titled "Vnitřní Tma", on the 1st of October through German label Ketzer Records. This will mark their sixth full length studio recording and a follow-up to their 2010 release, "Jasmuz".

Trollech formed in Plzen, Czech Republic, in 1999, and have released two split albums, a demo, a live album, an EP and a compilation album in addition to their five studio albums.

Norwegian Black Metal band God Seed will be releasing their very first studio recording on the 30th of October in Europe through Norwegian label Indie Recordings. Curiously, the North American release is scheduled for the 23rd of October, one week earlier instead of the usual scenario of the U.S. and Canada relying on the import version to become available after the European release.

The track list for "I Begin" will be as follows:


Awake
This From the Past
Alt Liv
From the Running of Blood
Hinstu Dagar
Diversions I (Limited edition)
Aldrande Tre
Lit
The Wound
Bloodline ...

Brazilian Black Metal band Black Achemoth will be releasing their second full length album on the 25th of October through Brazilian label Soul Erazer Distribution. This will be their first studio recording since they released their first full length album, "Revealing the Somber Powers of Hell", in 2008. Additionally, the band released one demo in 2004 and a participated on a split album in 1999.

The track list for Under the Veil of Darkness is as follows:


Intro
Darkness
Black Devotion
In His Field of Shadows
Hatred...
Born to Refuse the Light
Satanic Desires
Human Initiative ...

Czech Black Metal veterans Master's Hammer are once again putting forth new material this month, with the release of an untitled EP exclusively on vinyl format. Last week the band uploaded a cover version of a Czech folk song to their website for streaming. The new self-released EP is named simply as '7" SP 2012' by the band, and features two brand new songs:


Transgalaktický Řezník
Barva Kosmu


Making full use of their website, the band has made previews for both tracks available for streaming online here.