All posts by Elsa Marques

French Lovecraftian black metal masters THE GREAT OLD ONES have unveiled the cover art, album title and tracklist of their upcoming new record, ‘Cosmicism’. The album is set for worldwide release in the fall of 2019 via Season of Mist. Vocalist and guitarist Benjamin Guerry comments: “’Cosmicism’ is a literary philosophy developed by H.P. Lovecraft. In [...]

Instrumental progressive metal band ESSENCE OF DATUM premiere the music video for the song “Pendulum”. The track has been taken from the band’s upcoming record “Spellcrying Machine”, to be released via Season of Mist on August 30th. ESSENCE OF DATUM comment: “One of the favorite buildings in our hometown is Minsk city crematorium! The comprehension [...]

Canadian extreme metal veterans NECRONOMICON have announced the release of their new full-length ‘UNUS’. The record will be released via Season of Mist on October 18. Vocalist Rob the Witch comments: “When all is said and done, one most return to the start and begin a new life. ‘UNUS’ is the first major Arcana that [...]

  In September 2015, after a season of relative musical inactivity this collective found the inspiration for a new band concept and for the first riffs for a project unnamed at that time. Their influences were mainly an abundant exposure to horror films and series and a trip into the retro world of that same genre. [...]

Melancholy will sweep over the world at the end of August. Isole ‘s upcoming album “DYSTΩPIA” is scheduled for release on the 30th of August 2019 via Hammerheart Records ! ISOLE DYSTΩPIA (Hammerheart Records) 1. Beyond The Horizon 2. Written In The Sand 3. The Beholder 4. You Went Away 5. Forged By Fear 6. [...]

The Estonian band Loits has shown vital signs! They came back with an homage to the avant-garde black metal band Ved Buens Ende. When everyone was almost certain that no serious shelling will ever come from those guns again, Loits did it again. This seems to be a Loits trait. Categorized by some as a [...]

Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH are now releasing the second new track, taken from their upcoming full length ‘Outstrider’. The album is set for worldwide release on July 5, 2019 via Season of Mist. The new offering “Calm in Ire (of Hurricane)” is now streaming in the form of a lyric video: Abbath ‘Outstrider’ (Season of Mist) 1. [...]

VREID released a lyric video for “One Hundred Years”, which is taken from the band’s latest release “Lifehunger” (Sep 28th , Season of Mist)   VREID songwriter/ bass guiratist Jarle Hváll Kvåle states: To me, ‘One Hundred Years’ is the strongest song in our band’s history. It’s a song that captures the essence and multitude [...]

“Close to the Rain”, Bergen Prog Festival, is back with its third edition in June. Eight bands will fill the program and we’re proud to announce two of the first names confirmed from the Norwegian prog-scene: Leprous and Airbag. “Close to the Rain”, Bergen Prog Festival, is back with its third edition. This time in [...]

Malta’s death metal outfit & biggest metal export, BEHEADED, reveal cover artwork and tracklist for their sixth studio album titled “Only Death Can Save You”. The album is set to be released on June 14th worldwide via Agonia Records. Forged from the darkest depths, “Only Death Can Save You” breathes violence and marches fearlessly down its death [...]

SleapingDreaming officially released their debut full-length record called ‘Victory Roses’. Available as CD & Digital on their main legal platforms (Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify…). SleapingDreaming is a Brooklyn based trio that plays some heavy-ish shoegaze/dreamy/post-rock kinda stuff. They previously unveiled the single “Birds (Let Birds Feast On Your Dead Eyes)” on SoundCloud. The full album is now also available: [bandcamp [...]

The songs “The Sun Devouring Dragon”, “Manifest Malum” and “Sexual Demon” were shared as preview from Malum’s upcoming album “Legion”. The album is to be released via Purity-Through-Fire later this year. Malum is a Finnish band original from Turku formed in 2013. Their discography counts with several EP, compilations and split albums. The pass of time witnessed several [...]

Finnish hard rock group Blackwater Commotion released a new single. The new single “Sled of coming” from the Finnish band Blackwater Commotion is a traditional hard rock piece, faithful to the sound of hard rock veterans. You can listen the single via Spotify / Deezer / Youtube / Apple . Blackwater Commotion vocalist Henrik Hako-Rita comments on the new single: “Sled [...]

Philadelphia’s INFINITY released their new single, “Set Me Free”, from their forthcoming album. ”AWAKENING” album will be released via  Machine Man Records. You can listen to “Set Me Free” single below: [bandcamp width=100% height=120 track=312868977 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 tracklist=false artwork=small] Infinity was founded in October of 2016 by the vocalist/rhythm guitarist Ryan Howie and lead guitarist Ricky Sobel. The [...]