Pioneering and prolific black metal act Graveland announced that an official video clip for the track Possessed by Steel will appear exclusively on the D.R. Silesia YouTube channel sometime during April 14th, 2020. This track will adorn the upcoming album Hour of Ragnarok to be released in autumn of 2020.
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The most epic bands often struggle to clarify their voice, which includes composition, technique, and performance. For Emperor, the first foray consisted of crepitant necrotic recordings which emphasized solidarity with the early works of Hellhammer, Sodom, and Sarcofago. Later they refined their approach.
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Blasphamagoatchrist return from exile after the hilarious debacle concerning their previous effort Tyrannic Empire. This time round the band drift away from stereotypical War metal to a combination of the genre’s early influences.
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In the midst of the coronavirus devastating Italy, melodic Sardinian black metal act Infamous recently released a new track entitled “Forza e Onore” on a split with Ordo Sanguis Noctis entitled Strength and Honour/ Consecration of Mossy Sanctuary. With “Forza e Onore” mastermind S.A. explores familiar melodies with perhaps a greater sense of violence and urgency than those tracks which appeared on the previous full length.
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Mexican flowing black metal act Avzhia have released a promotional video for their upcoming 2020 record Fear of my Existence. According to details the new album will contain eight tracks of new material spanning over an hour of listening time, without the intrusion of synthesizers or other modern weaknesses.
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After some years of silence, wildcat black metal band turned ambient powerhouse Burzum unleashed its new album Thulêan Mysteries on Friday, March 13, 2020. The new album features incidental musical compositions from the past few years.
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Svoid are a Hungarian duo hailing from Budapest whose ten year existence has seen the band shift slowly from Black metal towards integrating more and more Rock influences until fully crossing over. While such an evolution is commonplace and the source for various dismal trends, Svoid on the other hand make their intentions clear that they are heavily informed from both genres since their inception and thus provide a combination that is honest and that unlike their peers seeks to integrate the Black metal elements into the heart of the composition rather using them for purely aesthetic reasons.
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German black metal and RAC crossover band Absurd, notorious for both political views and murders, tried to go full RAC during the past decade and basically lost most of their fans, since people liked the band for its idiosyncratic fusion instead of “falling in line” with movements based on mass obedience.
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For the low price of only $129.99, you can acquire the 25th anniversary box set release of Mayhem Me Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, a five-LP release including all versions of the best-known Mayhem album and the one that, as digestible black metal with throwbacks to heavy metal, inspired many to undertake the genre.
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Having release their last album eight years ago, Naglfar seemed senescent but has introduced its latest effort, Cerecloth, for release on May 8, 2020, via Century Media Records. Recorded and mixed at Wolf’s Lair Studio and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, the album promises to follow previous Naglfar melodic black metal efforts.
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