Eight years after their last album, Dimmu Borgir return with “Grand Serpent Rising”. While its ambitious runtime occasionally works against it, strong collection of material proves there’s still plenty of venom left in the serpent.
Party.San is one of Germany’s most important extreme-metal festivals and managed to stay tightly focused on the underground during it’s 30-year-history. The 2026 edition runs from 6–8 August at Obermehler-Schlotheim, becoming a pilgrimage site for extreme-metal fans. The billing features legacy acts, scene stalwarts, and …
Panopticon finally closes the loop on a long-running narrative about isolation, wilderness, and a haunted heart. Finest black metal from a melting pot mind.
“Ketzergeyst” proves that black metal doesn’t need reinvention when the songwriting and conviction are this strong. Winselmutter channel familiar genre hallmarks into something raw instead of another exercise in retro worship.
The organizers of Party.San Metal Open Air 2026 have released the daily band schedule for this year’s festival, set to take place from August 6–8 in Schlotheim, Germany. Headliners at the Main Stage will be Testament (Thursday), Amorphis (Friday), and Hypocrisy (Saturday).
22 albums in and Darkthrone still deliver. “Pre-Historic Metal” is a grim, strangely joyful reminder that the band still knows how to turn black metal into a personal expression of the world view.
Non Est Deus’ “Blessings and Curses “is a record that crackles with the tension of its own contradictions. This is melodic black metal designed for festival crowds, yet it never shakes off the claustrophobic intensity of a one-man operation. The album’s concept (an indictment of …
A tightly controlled blend of atmosphere and abrasion, “When The Leaves Fall, I’ll Be Near” shows real promise but struggles to push its ideas far enough to leave a lasting mark. It’s cohesive and well-crafted black metal, but struggles to become truly memorable.
The Ruins Of Beverast’s “Tempelschlaf” is a suffocating, ritualistic descent into blackened doom’s darkest corners, where the band weaves furious blasting, psychedelic synthscapes, and crushing riffs into a hypnotic, otherworldly journey.
Bloedmaan delivers are haunting, often brilliant exploration of vampiric black metal that sometimes repeats too much same-ish ideas, but ultimately delivers enough solid ideas to be appealing for fans to the genre.