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U.S. Black Metal band Nachtmystium have released their sixth full length studio album, Silencing Machine today through Century Media Records.

The new album's track list is as follows:


Dawn Over the Ruin of Jerusalem
Silencing Machine
And I Control You
The Lepers of Destitution
Borrowed Hope and Broken Dreams
I Wait in Hell
Decimation Annihilation
Reduced to Ashes
Give Me the Grave
These Rooms in Which We Weep


Nachtmystium was formed in Chicago by Pat McCormick and Blake Judd in 2000, and over the past decade they have shifted their sound from a more traditional style ...

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British Pagan Black Metal band Winterfylleth are set to release their new album, titled "The Threnody of Triumph", on the 10th of September, 2012. This will be their third full length album, after releasing "The Ghost of Heritage" in 2008 and "The Mercian Sphere" in 2010, with both albums receiving positive feedback from the Black Metal community. Hopefully, their third album will be no different in this regard.

The track list for "The Threnody of Triumph" is as follows:


A Thousand Winters
The Swart Raven
Æfterield-Fréon
A Memorial
The Glorious Pain
A Soul Unbound ...

This week we expand our Kings of Black series of articles by taking an in-depth look at the career of Immortal, one of the most influential, revered and highly respected Black Metal bands of all time.

Tracing their roots back to Norway's early Death Metal scene in the late 80's, Immortal gradually shifted towards Black Metal in the early 90's, and over the next 13 years continued on an unstoppable path of musical excellence and evolution, avoiding the controversy that revolved around their Norwegian peers, and releasing multiple landmark Black Metal albums before splitting up in ...

In our third installment of the Kings of Black series, we take a closer look at one of the pioneers of Norwegian Black Metal and the architects of Symphonic Black Metal, Emperor.

Since their creation in 1991 until their dissolution in 2001, Emperor have proven to be not only one of the key progenitors of the Second Wave of Black Metal that originated in Norway, but also one of the most inspirational, with their influence being found within the music of literally thousands of Symphonic Black Metal bands across the globe.

Click here to view our biography for Emperor.

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Norwegian Progressive / Viking Black Metal veterans Enslaved have recently revealed the details regarding their upcoming studio release. "RIITIIR" is the title of what will be their twelfth full length album, and a follow-up to their 2010 release "Axioma Ethica Odini".

Guitarist Ivar Bjørnson, one of Enslaved's songwriters and founding members, has revealed some further details behind the concepts on "RIITIIR" through the band's official Facebook profile:

The album is, as mentioned, entitled RIITIIR - a self-made 'Norse-ified' version of the words 'Rites' / 'Rituals.' RIITIIR = 'The ...

French Ambient Black Metal band Blut Aus Nord are scheduled to release their tenth full length studio recording, titled "777 - Cosmosophy", on the 21st of September 2012 through the Debemur Morti Productions record label.

"777 - Cosmosophy" will be the third and final part of their "777" trilogy of albums, with the first two parts of the trilogy being "777 - Sect(s)" and "777 - The Desanctification", both released in 2011.

As is usually the case with Blut Aus Nord's albums, the track list simply consists of numbered chapters:


Epitome XIV
Epitome XV
Epitome XVI
Epitome XVII ...

Finnish Black Metal band Behexen have announced recently that their new album, titled "Nightside Emanations", is set to be released through Debemur Morti Productions on the 21st of September, 2012. This will be their fourth full length studio recording, and a follow-up to their 2008 album "My Soul for His Glory".

The track list for "Nightside Emanations" is as follows:


Intro
Wrathfull Dragon Hau-Hra
Death's Black Light
Circle Me...
We Burn With Serpent Fire
Luciferian Will
Awaken Tiamat
Temple of the Silent Curses
Shining Death
Kiss of Our Dark Mother


Behexen were ...