U.S. Black Metal band Predatory Light are just about to release a brand new EP this Friday via 20 Buck Spin. The EP, titled "Death and the Twilight Hours", will mark the band's first release of any kind since their self-titled debut album in 2016. To celebrate the occasion, the entire EP is now being streamed online over at the label's YouTube channel:

The EP features four new tracks:

The Three Living and The Three Dead Wracked by Sacred Fires Death and the Twilight Hours To Plead Like Angels

The label elaborated on the sinister themes to be encountered within:

Hail ...

Kolkata-based Black / Death Metal act Aparthiva Raktadhara are getting ready to unleash their debut album, which is titled "Adyapeeth Maranasamhita", and due for release this Friday 20th of May via Iron Bonehead Productions. Meanwhile, the album's opening track, "Noumenal Wings of Uncreation Hover over the Excrements of Sunyata", is now available for listening in the form of a music video, check it out:

"Adyapeeth Maranasamhita" or "আদ্যাপীঠ মরণসংহিতা", which translates to "Adyapith Death Code", is a reference to the goddess Adya, and features the following tracklist:

Noumenal ...

Barely a few months after the release of their latest album, Vancouver-based Black Metal act Wormwitch have just unleashed a brand new song, titled "Age of the Ordeal of Iron". The song is described as a stand-alone single for 2022, and it comes with a visualizer/music video to boot. Check it out:

The band presented the single as follows:

Returning less than a year after 2021’s critically acclaimed “WOLF HEX”, Canadian warmongers WORMWITCH present a new stand-alone single, “AGE OF THE ORDEAL OF IRON”. Continuing the band’s proven tradition of relentless, punishing melodic black metal ...

Romanian Experimental Black Metal act Katharos XIII will soon be launching what is to be their fourth full-length album, titled "Chthonian Transmissions", which is scheduled for release via Transylvania-based label Loud Rage Music on the 23rd of May. Leading up to the release, two of the album's tracks have now been made available for listening, the most recent of which, the album's title track, went live yesterday:

Emilian Matlak, the band's singer, guitarist and founder, commented on the new album's concepts:

The new album encapsulates six different dreams ...

Back in February, German Medieval Black Metal / Ambient act Kampfeswut released their debut full-length album, titled "Des Barden schwarzer Gesang", in digital format. Yesterday, the album was finally released in CD format also, via French label Crush The Desert. To celebrate the occasion, the entire album is being streamed online, check it out:

"Des Barden schwarzer Gesang", which translates to "The Bard's Black Song", features the following tracklist:

Einklang zur neuen Geschicht Der Ruf der Berggeister Finster war die Nacht Im Walde Ewiger Winter Sedna zu Grund Gesang von ...

Last month, Swiss Black Metal act Malphas released their latest full-length album, titled "Divinity's Fall", through German label Folter Records on the 14th of April. Earlier this week the entire album was made available for streaming online over at the BMP YouTube channel, check it out:

"Divinity's Fall" marks the band's second studio album, following their 2017 debut, "Incantation", and features the following tracklist:

Astral Melancholy Exile Wrath of the Fallen Angel Forged in the Abyss In the Name of War Hymn of Your Glory Divinity's Fall Last Breath Domination ...

Seattle-based Black / Death Metal experimentalists Hissing are preparing to release their latest full-length effort, titled "Hypervirulence Architecture", on the 15th of July via Profound Lore Records. While we wait, the album's closing track "Meltdown" is now available for listening through the label's YouTube channel, check it out:

The label commented briefly on the band's origins and style:

Founded in 2014 out of a mutual interest in mutilating sounds and exploring the outer limits of black and death metal, the group aims to desecrate expectations with each subsequent release. ...

Polish Blackened Death Metal pioneers Behemoth have just revealed the details for their next full-length album, which is titled "Opvs Contra Natvram", and is scheduled for release on the 16th of September via long-time partners Nuclear Blast, marking the band's 12th studio record. Together with the announcement, a new single was released in the form of a music video for the album's fourth track, "Ov My Herculean Exile", check it out:

Nuclear Blast hyping up the album:

Now world-renowned and yet exuberantly underground in their convictions, BEHEMOTH are perhaps the unlikeliest ...

Greek Black Metal band Synteleia are getting ready to unleash their latest full-length album, titled "The Secret Last Syllable", which will be released on the 14th of May via Floga Records. Until then, the entire album will be available for listening via the BMP YouTube channel, where it will premiere later this afternoon:

"The Secret Last Syllable" will mark the band's second full-length, with more Lovecraftian-themed Black Metal. The label elaborated further on the album's concepts:

The natural successor to the band’s stout debut album, The Secret Last Syllable is a ...

Last week, Canadian Blackened Death Metal outfit Wake premiered a brand new music video for one of the songs off their new album, "Thought Form Descent", which is due for release on July 22nd via Metal Blade Records. The video is for the song "Swallow the Light", the second track on the album, check it out:

The label and band commented on what to expect from the new album:

Never a band interested in repeating themselves, WAKE has evolved with every release. 2020's Devouring Ruin made this clearer than ever, hammering the point home with the Confluence EP in the same year, and now they ...