From its upcoming album All The Shadows, classic swords and sorcery heavy metal band Cirith Ungol has released its first single, the title track. Hit the play button below to check it out.
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Interview with Asgrauw (2026)
All things in life strive to survive and perpetuate. This applies to genes, peoples, languages, ideas, and as a subset of that, musical genres. Black metal is a palatte for discussing a naturalistic, Nietzschean and Darwinistic view of the world that also retains a Romanticist focus on transcendental meaning and the possibility of hidden worlds beyond it. Like the rest of metal, black metal has been struggling to survive since 1994 when the genre bloated and floated, but some rise to the challenge with a sense of delight and the curiosity of discovery. This came to mind when Asgrauw floated across the review queue with their impressive Solips. Luckily the band were game for answering a few of our questions.
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Tags: asgrauw, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal
Master – Among the Seeds of Death (2026)
Evoking the higher-speed precision work of On the Seventh Day…, the latest offering from Master merges early hardcore, 1960s heavy rock, and the early years of death metal into a driving force of dissent and alienation.
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Asgrauw – Solips (2026)
Metal has been a ruin since 1994, but a handful of acts show that there is some life in the corpse, and Solips from Asgrauw shows great promise with its melodic high energy black metal.
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Hypoxia – Defiance (2024)
These songs feel like guys shouting at each other across a bar, each with a good idea, and the whole thing barely but strongly holding together, making a simple statement of both past and present.
34 CommentsTags: death metal, hypoxia
Master Among the Seeds of Death Nears Release
Proto-metal band Master continue a storied career with Among the Seeds of Death, slated for release on Hammerheart Records. If you liked On the Seventh Day… this release continues that tradition.
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Ripper – Towards Rebirth (2026)
From that interstitial and liminal period between speed metal and death metal, bands like Possessed and Merciless emerged long ago, but the tradition carries on with high-speed contrast and vertigo from Ripper.
26 CommentsTags: ripper, Speed Metal
Agnostic Front Summer Tour 2026 Kicks Off
Classic hardcore band Agnostic Front, who helped develop the NYHC sound along with the Cro-Mags, are embarking on a short tour to bring the hardcore reality to towns blighted by normie ideation.
57 CommentsTags: agnostic front, Hardcore, punk
Death is the master of this world – Death is the master of this world (2026)
Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Carbonized album than in the somewhat rigid environment death/black metal has become.
17 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death is the master of this world, kaeck, sammath
Do Not Enter (2026)
It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape. But the MillennialMovie™ managed to make it boring.
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