Recenzja Malum „From the Voids”

 Malum

„From the Voids”

Dark Essence Rec. 2026

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...)

Recenzja Doedsvangr „Within the Flesh”

 Doedsvangr

„Within the Flesh”

Soulseller Records 2026

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...)

Nowy album RTĘĆ już za kilka dni

 

Debiut REGENT DEATH za dwa tygodnie

 

Singiel od PURE WRATH

 

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.

Finalny skład HELLS BELLS FESTIVAL ogłoszony!

 

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.

Nowy GRABUNHOLD w czerwcu

 

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:

Tracklisting for Grabunhold's Frostheim

1. Der Tod wohnt in Carn Dûm

2. Grambergs Fluch

3. Der Mondturm

4. Rerirs blauer Schatten

5. Über Grat und kalten Gipfel

6. Schreckenszauber

7. In Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn

8. Eärnurs Verderben

Numer z debiutu NIGHT SPECTRE

 

Today, Greek heavy metallers Night Spectre premiere the new track "Night Spectre" at the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal (NWOTHM) YouTube channel. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Night Spectre, set for international release on May 22nd via Dying Victims Productions. Hear Night Spectre's "Night Spectre" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

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:

Tracklisting for Night Spectre's Night Spectre

1. Death Contract

2. The Maniac

3. Cheating the Fates

4. To Die in the Ancient Fire

5. Blades of Galvarino

6. Crossing the Abyss

7. Damnation of Memory

8. Night Spectre

Można odsłuchać nowy CRUEL FORCE

 

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.

Recenzja Nightgnawer „Medieval Devourer”

 Nightgnawer

„Medieval Devourer”

Purity Through Fire 2026

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...)

Recenzja DomJord „Morgonglöd”

 DomJord

„Morgonglöd”

Vidfare / NoEvDia 2026

Zapewne wiecie, że jest to projekt Ariocha vel Mortuusa, w ramach którego tworzy muzykę elektroniczną. Pod koniec marca wyda pod tym szyldem, jak mi się zdaje, trzeci album, który zawiera sześć kompozycji o hipnotycznym charakterze. DomJord, to plumkanie, na które składają się takie elementy jak dark ambient, dungeon synth, minimal i trochę noisu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Debiut AGELESS GATEWAY w kwietniu

 

AGELESS GATEWAY ''Corruptor of Stars'' (Full-length Album) Releases April 17, 2026 Format: CD • MC • DIGITAL

Genre: Black Metal

Country: Poland

𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠, 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

All music and lyrics, recording, mixing and mastering by Apparition. Cover art by Niemst. Logo by Astral Gaze Logos. Layout by WS Artworks. Check out lyric video for 'Visions of Parasitic Consciousness' track:

https://youtu.be/z2-0xNuXKrw

Tracklist:

01. The One Who Watches (Intro)

02. Corruptor of Stars

03. Visions of Parasitic Consciousness

04. Deep Root Disease

05. The Feeding Grounds

Mini BARBARIC OATH do odsłuchu

 

Today, Heroquest death metallers Barbaric Oath stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut mini-album, Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance, at the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Set for international release on March 27th via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats, hear Barbaric Oath's Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Singiel od SICARIUS

 

Today, reanimated black metallers Sicarius premiere the new track "Nex" - featuring Mayhem's Charles Hedger - at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, Nex, set for international release on April 10th via Adirondack Black Mass. Hear Sicarius' title track "Nex" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

SI_CA_RI_US

Latin. “Assassin, Murderer Dagger-Man, Slayer. Killer”

Formed in early 2014 by Argyris and Carnage, the idea behind Sicarius was to embody the fury and violent spirit of black metal. Drawing heavy inspiration from the artists of first- and second-wave acts from Scandinavia, Greece, and the US, Sicarius inject their potent cocktail of black metal with elements of American aggression like thrash, death metal, goth, and rock.

In 2024, the two would write and begin recording their long-awaited third album, Nex: a gritty and ultraviolent crime drama of an album, pulling influences from bands like Bathory, Rotting Christ, Dissection, Mayhem, Urghehal, Marduk, Absu, and fusing in elements from groups like Type O Negative. It would be here that Sicarius would welcome new vocalist Akefalos to the lineup, where his soaring vocal style would make its debut, replacing longtime vocalist K. Karcass.

Sicarius also contributed to a split released at the end of 2024 called We’ll Meet You Where the Ravens Circle with SoCal black metal band Withermoon, where the former would rewrite and rerecord two songs from their demo days.

Nex is the culminating flatline of the death and rebirth of a band too pissed off to stay deceased: a 10-track story about loss, death, retribution, and fury that honors tradition while being unafraid to venture on its own.

Sicarius is hungry, Sicarius is ready.

Sicarius wants to hunt again.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "Nex" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "An Aptitude for Elimination" HERE at Adirondack Black Mass' official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sicarius' Nex

1. Cold Death

2. Opened Obsidian Gateways

3. No Witnesses

4. Crashing Into The Abyss

5. Banshee

6. Daggers Down

7. The Hunger We Cannot Sate

8. An Aptitude For Elimination

9. Ambuscade

10. Nex (feat. Charles Hedger)

Nowy numer DOEDSVANGR

 

Black metal outfit Doedsvangr unveil the second strike from their upcoming third full-length Within The Flesh; the new single 'Devil Bites Man' is now streaming via Black Metal Promotions YouTube channel. The track will be available on all other digital platforms at midnight March 27. Pre-orders for Within The Flesh are still live ahead of the album’s release on the 10th of April via Soulseller Records.

Listen to 'Devil Bites Man' here: https://youtu.be/i0qhQzuf7cY

Pre-order Within The Flesh here:

https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com

Track-list:

1. Devil Bites Man

2. Black Sun Dissolution

3. Omnipath

4. Within The Flesh

5. Blodskam

6. The Pentagram Upon My Mouth

7. Rites Of Thorns, Rise Of Flesh