Po dwóch
albumach wydanych dla naszego krajowego wydawcy, Pig’s Blood opuścili szeregi
Bogów Wojny, i odpłynęli do wytwórni zza oceanu. Teoretycznie bardziej uznanej
irenomowanej, choć nie zawsze się to
przekłada na wymierne korzyści. No ale każdy jest kowalem własnego losu.
Zajmijmy się zatem tylko i wyłącznie muzyką, bo to przecież ona jest
najważniejsza. Świńska Krew, to nadal ta sama posoka. (Czytaj dalej...)
Daemonium Regni to
solowy projekt wokalisty Unanimated, Mickaela Broberga. W drugiej połowie
kwietnia ukaże się jego pierwsza płyta, która zawiera swoistą mieszankę złożoną
z black i doom metalu. To osiem kompozycji, które płyną raczej w średnich i
wolnych tempach, a skonstruowane są w oparciu o dość gęste, nakładające się na
siebie struktury. (Czytaj dalej...)
Today, German black metallers Antrisch stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Expedition III: Renitenzpfad, at the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Set for international release on March 27th via AOP Records. Hear Antrisch's Expedition III: Renitenzpfad in its entirety HERE.
Pariah’s cult debut re-issued! “The Kindred” brings you pure old school Thrash Metal fury! Satan changed their name to Pariah in 1988-1989.
Satan’s evolution for the time being came to an end here with this band, Pariah, in 1988. What Satan were going for with “Suspended Sentence”, could definitely be seen as a hint to the direction they would take as Pariah. That raspy, ill-tempered, aggressive Michael Jackson (indeed) is still here on vocals and these guys really wanted to tear things apart with this album. The main lineup here is entirely the same from Satan and Blind Fury (vocalists aside). Simply put, one could easily say they took “Suspended Sentence”’s interesting idea of “NWOBHM meets Thrash Metal” and basically focused on being even more aggressive this time.
Michigan's MY OWN WILL has announced the release of their newest EP, Misery. The EP promises to clutch throats and incite pits with four overly-aggressive tracks of metal-fueled hardcore.
The band has picked the EP's title track for the lead single. Vocalist Dave Keoppen comments on the song, "'Misery' was the first demo we recorded for the EP and was initially called 'Highway Homicide.' It is a fast, blistering track that we really feel sets the tone for the EP. Sonically, it is unlike anything we feel we have done before. I really tried to push my vocal ability on this one and the dudes wrote a heavy, fast, interesting ass beater. It’s fast at times, slow at times, and maintain a constant auditory onslaught throughout."
Wydany
pięć lat temu „Devil’s Creation” musiał chyba lotem okrężnym minąć redakcyjną
skrzynkę Apocalyptic Rites, bo powiem szczerze, że nawet tego materiału nie kojarzę.
Szkoda, bo „Legion”, będący obecnie już siedmiolatkiem, był całkiem niezłym
krążkiem. Nie ma jednak co płakać nad rozlanym mlekiem, bo oto jest kolejny,
piąty już album Finów. (Czytaj dalej...)
To już trzeci album tej
internacjonalnej kapeli, która zrzesza muzyków sceny norweskiej, fińskiej i
francuskiej. Taka też jest ich najnowsza płyta, bo łączy w sobie cechy tych
trzech ujęć, co udowadniali również na poprzednich produkcjach. Siedem kawałków,
stanowiących fuzję drapieżności, melodyjności oraz epickich nut, które
zespolone ze sobą, generują kąśliwą i łatwo wpadającą w ucho gędźbę. (Czytaj dalej...)
On April 24th, Indonesian Black Metal band PURE WRATH will unleash their fourth album "Bleak Days Ahead". Building wonderfully upon the panoramic and poignant melodies of 2022's wounded "Hymn to the Woeful Hearts", mastermind Ryo and drummer Yurii Ciel (CAILLEACH CALLING, ex-WHITE WARD) have dialled back the cinematics and upped the dynamics - allowing a varied sound palette including organ, mellotron, throat singing, piano and saxophone to express the sadness in high-functioning depression and the suffocating routines of modern life.
To underscore this, PURE WRATH now unveil the album's second single, 'Haven of Echoes', accompanied by a haunting video:
Indonesian band PURE WRATH began in mid-2014 as the solo primitive Black Metal project of multi-instrumentalist Ryo. In 2016, Ryo began to shift the lyrical and thematic content of PURE WRATH towards his own life and family history. This paradigm-shift resulted in 2017 debut record, "Ascetic Eventide", released via Indonesian label Hitam Kelam Records andselling out within four months.
Following the debut's success, Ryo was contacted by Mexican label Throats Productions for the vinyl re-release of "Ascetic Eventide". Soon after, "Endless Journey", a split release between PURE WRATH and French symphonic black metal project ONIRISM was issued at the end of 2017.
In mid-2018, Ryo began writing what would become the second PURE WRATH album, "Sempiternal Wisdom". It was released in October 2018 through Pest Productions in China and Hitam Kelam Records in Indonesia.
In 2019, Ryo readied PURE WRATH for live performances and created new EP "The Forlorn Soldier". Released in 2020 via new label Debemur Morti Productions, the EP featured Yurii Ciiel (ex-WHITE WARD) as a session drummer and served as a bridge to the next PURE WRATH full-length. "Hymn To The Woeful Hearts", the band's critically acclaimed, next-level third album, was unleashed by DMP in February 2022.
After an intense period composing new material and performing select live shows across Asia, PURE WRATH entered the studio in September 2025 to record new album "Bleak Days Ahead". For the first time, mastermind Ryo and drummer Yurii were able to record together in person in Bekasi, Indonesia. Further heightening anticipation for this new work, in January 2025 PURE WRATH unveiled a standalone digital composition 'Flowers And Walls' - a compelling rendition of Wiji Thukul's poem "Bunga dan Tembok". "Bleak Days Ahead" will be released on April 24th, 2026.
Hells Bells Festival oficjalnie domyka listę wykonawców, którzy 26 i 27 czerwca wystąpią na szczecińskiej Łasztowni. Finałowe ogłoszenie to potężna dawka nowojorskiego hardcore'u oraz hołd dla lokalnej legendy: do składu dołączają Pro-Pain oraz szczecińska duma, grupa The Analogs.
Zestawienie zamyka amerykańska formacja Pro-Pain. Od ponad trzech dekad Gary Meskil i jego ekipa definiują brzmienie metal-hardcore crossovera. Od czasu debiutu Foul Taste of Freedom w 1992 roku pozostają jedną z najbardziej konsekwentnych sił na scenie, umiejętnie łącząc thrash metal z nowojorskim hardcorem w ramach dyskografii pełnej gatunkowych hymnów. Koncert w piątek, stanowiący celebrację 35-lecia zespołu, będzie obowiązkowym punktem programu dla każdego fana miażdżących groove’ów.
Obok nich pojawia się szczecińska legenda, The Analogs. Powstała w Szczecinie w 1995 roku formacja to dziś najbardziej rozpoznawalny polski zespół street punkowy, cieszący się ogromną popularnością nie tylko w kraju, ale i w całej Europie czy Ameryce Południowej. Od trzech dekad ich muzyka stanowi surową i szczerą kronikę brudnej rzeczywistości oraz społecznych problemów. Prekursorzy polskiego street punka przygotowali na tę okazję coś specjalnego: set złożony wyłącznie z klasyków z ich pierwszych, kultowych płyt, co dla lokalnej publiczności będzie wyjątkowym powrotem do korzeni polskiego podziemia.
Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets June 5th as the international release date for Grabunhold's highly anticipated second album, Frostheim, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
It's been five long years since Grabunhold's momentous debut album, Heldentod, which presented the "new old" sound of medieval black metal: Second Wave journeys through silent citadels, sequestered keeps, and dark dungeons, all done in a manner most Teutonic. While a split EP with Circle of Shadows arrived in 2023, the question still lingered: did the Germans still possess the steel to deliver a full-length as compelling - and compellingly modern, despite its ancient origins - as their debut?
On evidence of Frostheim, the answer is a resounding YES. While no great changes have been made to their sturdy aesthetic - songwriting that's expansive yet stridently classicist, production that's powerful in its sparkling sheen, and execution that ably balances pagan solemnity with northern bloodlust - on Grabunhold's sophomore album, there exists an uptick in dynamics that's both subtle and blanching. Perhaps it's the stained-glass melodicism that hammers its way to the fore, perhaps it's that production becoming an iron first lined with velvet, or perhaps it's some (cascading) combination of the two and magickal more, but Frostheim is a veritable sonic cathedral: each tone is a feast for the senses, and each tone supports a more-detailed but never-belabored palette, but all coalesce into burning-cold BLACK METAL that feels simultaneously decades ahead and behind all else. Of course, this all could be support color across a canvas of simply sterling songwriting, which somehow manages to mix emotion and grandeur in equal measure, and then the skill to perform it as needs to be...only Grabunhold know what fires their forge. Taste their German steel, sharper than ever, with Frostheim!
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Grambergs Fluch" HERE at Iron Bonehead's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Night Spectre was forged in 2024, when a group of stubborn metalheads united with one goal: to unleash pure old-school heavy metal, burning with passion and true devotion. From the very beginning, the band’s vision was clear – to compose, rehearse, and record the strongest debut they could before stepping into the world. After relentless dedication and countless hours of hard work, Night Spectre’s self-titled debut album is finally ready to be revealed.
Comprising eight tracks in 45 minutes, Night Spectre roars across the full spectrum of heavy metal, with straightforward songwriting channeling the essential roots of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and the NWOBHM scene through the U.S. steel of bands like Riot and Jag Panzer to the epic grandeur of Manowar, Bathory, and Manilla Road. At times, Night Spectre’s attack – be it march, gallop, stomp, or surge – sounds like all those bands at once and then like nothing else entirely; to be sure, there’s some strange magick brewing in their cauldron. Which underlines how important that songwriting is, that what you bring to a tradition and then build upon is what actually makes such tradition so vital – and in this sense, Night Spectre exude a wisdom far beyond their still-young years as a band. Lyrically, the album delves into themes of occult fantasies, historical heroes dying fighting, horror movies, and defiance of societal norms, all with an overarching atmosphere of classic swords & sorcery.
Completed by powerful production – gleaming and clear but not without blood or grit, highlighting the heroism and bravado so central to their sound – Night Spectre’s self-titled debut is a bold first statement: delivered with reverence, under the band’s vision of raw, rebellious, and untamed HEAVY METAL.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Night Spectre" exclusively HERE, courtesy of the NWOTHM YouTube channel. Also hear the previously revealed "Death Contract" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever magazine. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Today, ancient speed metallers Cruel Force stream the entirety of their highly anticipated fourth album, Haneda, in advance of its release. Set for international release on March 27th via Shadow Kingdom Records, hear Cruel Force's Haneda in its entirety exclusively HERE at the band's official YouTube channel.
Nightgnawer
przewinął się już przez Apocalyptic Rites, a było to z trzy lata temu, kiedy
napisałem kilka słów na temat ich kolaboracyjnego wydawnictwa z WulfSeer. W
międzyczasie Finowie wydali jeszcze album z gatunku „live” (nie rozumiem
zabiegu, skoro nie mają jeszcze ani jednej dużej płyty, ale ja się nie znam), a
dziś powracają nową EP-ką, zawierającą pięć nowych ścieżek. (Czytaj dalej...)
