Folter Records plans to release the third Kaeck, Gruwelijk Onthaal, on September 18, 2025. The album features art by Dylan Humphries in a handmade woodcut style and shows Kaeck arriving on Earth, stepping on the broken souls and corpses of humanity.
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Ambitious melodic but abrasive war metal band Kaeck have posted their full album stream so you can hear the whole album before you buy. Following the example of bands like Ildjarn and Beherit, Het Zwarte Dictaat starts with grinding misanthropy and builds to transcendent beauty. For grim metal fans only!
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War metal band Kaeck — integrating elegant northern European black metal and technical death metal with its rampaging, atmospheric assault — will make its latest stream, “De kwekeling,” live at 12:00 EST on YouTube.
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Already gaining a lead on all other contenders for the most compelling underground metal album of the year, Kaeck has on Het Zwarte Dictaat made the masterpiece of violent rhythm riffs and melodies that much of the underground wishes it could, combining black metal and war metal with doom metal and death metal to create a constantly changing mood within a fluid style. Fortunately, guitarist/composer Jan Kruitwagen had a few moments to give us his take on the band and state of the metal genre.
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Easily a candidate for album of the year, Het Zwarte Dictaat from Kaeck makes a form of war metal that incorporates the subtle melodies of black metal and the longer atmospheric riffs of later death metal, melding a primitive assault along the lines of Zyklon-B and Blasphemy with the type of elaborate construction we might expect from Emperor or Demigod.
With use of precise riffs, this album creates atmosphere in the classic underground metal style that contrasts loping hypnotic riffs with bursts of fury, allowing the song to emerge from a smoldering inner conflict like a car shooting out of a darkened tunnel into the light, looking for clarity within a shifting landscape of ambiguity and violence.
In its blend of war metal, doom-death, and black metal, Kaeck runs the gamut of tempi and rhythms over the course of this album, transitioning from the primitive to the almost reverentially mood-driven. By blending current methods with the most ancient of metal traditions, Het Zwarte Dictaat keeps a foot in the past while stepping into the future.
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Melodic war metal band Kaeck has issued forth a mysterious new video from its new album Het Zwarte Dictaat due out on Folter Records on October 15, designed to shock and awe the metal community with fierceness from the old school:
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Monstrous Dutch war metal with tinges of traditional black metal band Kaeck have announced their new album, Het Zwarte Dictaat (The Black Command) and released a teaser showing off a couple riffs for you to try to play during the seventh lockdown.
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The long awaited vinyl remaster of Kaeck’s Stormkult, The Best Metal Album of 2015, is finally being pressed courtesy of Greek label Heathen Tribes.
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Kaeck‘s Stormkult, The Best Underground Metal Album of 2015, is coming to vinyl courtesy of Heathen Tribes. The vinyl LP will feature remastered sound with a little less mud and a tad more room overhead. The LPÂ will come in gatefold packaging befitting the lyrical and compositional themes. It will be strictly limited to 200 copies. If you are a black metal analog fanatic and miss out, you will be sorry for sure.
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