Hungarian Black Metal legends Sear Bliss will be releasing a brand new album on the 28th of June, titled "Heavenly Down", marking their ninth full-length effort in a career spanning over 30 years. While we wait, Hammerheart Records have released a music video for the album's seventh track, "Chasm", check it out:



"Heavenly Down" features cover art designed by iconic Dutch artist Kris Verwimp:



More info here: https://searbliss.lnk.to/heavenlydown

On the 5th of July, Colorado Black Metal mystics Akhlys will be unleashing a brand new album, titled "House of the Black Geminus", via Debemur Morti Productions. Meanwhile, another track from the album has now been made available for listening, check out "Maze of Phobetor":



As described by the label:

Following 2020's widely-worshipped "Melinoë", AKHLYS, the globe's premier channelers of abyssal nightmare, return triumphant with six elaborate and exhilarating new tracks of pure Black Metal terror.

Drawing from esoteric and mythical traditions, where the land of dreams is placed within the ...

French Black Metal veterans Seth are due to put out a brand new album, titled "La France des maudits", on the 14th of July via Season of Mist, marking their seventh studio album in a career spanning three decades. While we wait, a music video was made for the album's fourth track, "Dans le Cœur un Poignard" ("A Dagger to the Heart"), check it out:



More info here: https://www.innomineseth.fr/shop/

Do you have too much money?

In order to keep the site running as smoothly and as responsive as possible, and to accomodate the vast amount of pages and images that form the backbone of the site's content, Lycanthropia.net uses Siteground's most advanced non-cloud hosting plan (currently hovering at around 20 GB and 500,000 inodes, for those who are versed in such matters). Lesser hosting plans aren't really viable at this scale.

Any donation towards this effort, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated. To facilitate this, Lycanthropia.net is now on the popular donation ...

Italian Black Metal veterans Forgotten Tomb are gearing up for the release of what will be their 11th studio album in a career spanning 25 years. The album, titled "Nightfloating", is due for release on the 12th of June via Agonia Records. Meanwhile the album's title-track and opener is now available for listening in the form of a music video:



More info here: https://officialforgottentomb.bandcamp.com/

Irish Black Metal alchemists Verzauber have just put out a lyric video for one of the songs from last year's debut, "Frankincense & Vitriol", ahead of the album's impending physical release through Naturmacht Productions. The song in question is the album's fifth track, "To Call the Stars by Name and Render the Heavens Ablaze", check it out:



More info here: https://shop.naturmacht.com/verzauber-merch

Greek Black Metal veterans Dødsferd have just released a brand new album, titled "Wrath", on the 10th of May through Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records. To celebrate the release, the entire album is now available for streaming via the label's channel, check it out:



The label commented:

Following the acclaimed “Diseased Remnants of a Dying World” album in 2018, Dødsferd released an atmospheric two-piece album of raw black metal entitled "Suicide and the rest of your kind will follow Part II", followed by an acoustic collaboration with Sarvok. Circling back ...

French Atmospheric Black Metal project Inherits the Void is gearing up for the release of what will be their third studio album, "Scars of Yesteryears", which is due for release on the 21st of June via Avantgarde Music. While we wait, the album's second track, "Orchard of Grief", is now available for listening:



The label commented:

As introduced by Inherits The Void mastermind A. himself, “Scars Of Yesteryears is a melodic black metal album which embodies the artistic choices initiated with its predecessor. However, Scars Of Yesteryears is more diverse in its musical influences, ...

French Black Metal solo act Sotherion recently released their debut studio album, titled "Vermine", on the 9th of May via W.T.C. Productions. The whole album is now streaming in full via the label's channel:



The label elaborated on the project's origins as well as the album's style and themes:

Spawned by the mind of infamous composer BST (Aosoth, The Order of Apollyon) in total isolation, in the midst of the first lockdown of 2020, Sotherion is a one-man project paying homage to the late ‘80s and early ‘90s second wave of black metal. Inspired by disgust for the modern world and its ...

Irish Black Metal act Verzauber is scheduled to release a physical version of the project's debut album "Frankincense & Vitriol", which was first released digitally last year. The album will see Digipak CD and tape editions via Naturmacht Productions at the end of this month, with the opening track, "The Citadel Awakens to the Gaze of an Incensed God", now streaming on the Naturmacht channel ahead of the physical release:



The label commented:

The debut Verzauber album, “Frankincense & Vitriol” is an epic work encompassing five distinct yet interwoven chapters of dense, narrative-driven ...