Recenzja Ash Magick “Rituals of Anathematic East”

 Ash Magick

“Rituals of Anathematic East”

Apocalyptic Witchcraft Rec. 2025

Założę się, że powyższa nazwa niewiele komukolwiek mówi. Jest to jednoosobowy wykwit z Turcji, a odpowiedzialna za niego jest niejakia „VI-th”. Z kolei album, który ukazał się w zeszłym roku, jest już trzecim w dorobku tej kobitki. O ile z dystansem podchodzę do takich solowych przedsięwzięć, bo zdecydowana większość z nich nie jest warta funta kłaków, tak tutaj muszę zdjąć czapkę z głowy, bo Turczynka nagrała kawał konkretnego rozpierdolu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Sworn „Null Crowned the Infinite”

 Sworn

„Null Crowned the Infinite”

Self-release / The Circle Music 2026

Kilka kapel o tej nazwie funkcjonuje na scenie metalowej, ale tutaj chodzi o ten norweski Sworn, który komponuje sobie black metal w mieście Bergen od 2005 roku. Panowie nie nagrywają zbyt często, bo najnowszy ich krążek „Null Crowned the Infinite”, jest dopiero ich piątym albumem, a istnieją już 21 lat. (Czytaj dalej...)

WINGLESS: pierwszy singiel i teledysk z nowej płyty ujawniony

 

Deathmetalowy WINGLESS przedstawia Crossing the Abyss - pierwszy singiel i teledysk promujący najnowszą płytę zespołu Vision Beyond Form. Następczyni doskonale przyjętej Ascension ukaże się w listopadzie nakładem Selfmadegod Records.

Najnowszy, szósty album Vision Beyond Form to 36 minut bezkompromisowego death metalu w jego najbardziej esencjonalnej odsłonie. Materiał łączy ciężar, surowość i mrok z wysokim poziomem instrumentalnego kunsztu oraz organicznym, naturalnym brzmieniem całości. To świadoma i konsekwentnie zrealizowana wizja muzyki metalowej, inspirowana klasyką gatunku lat 80/90., jednocześnie zachowująca własny charakter i tożsamość.

WINGLESS założony został na początku 2012 r. w Krakowie. Zespół ma na koncie jak dotąd pięć albumów studyjnych, na których coraz wyraźniej zwracał się w stronę death metalu.

Obejrzyj teledysk Crossing the Abyss tutaj

Premiera najnowszego albumu WINGLESS Vision Beyond Form będzie miała miejsce 6 listopada 2026 nakładem Selfmadegod Records.

Nowy ISKALD do odsłuchu

 

Eight years after "Innhøstinga", Norwegian melodic black metal veterans ISKALD return with "Curse of the Mind", their sixth full-length and first concept album, now presented in full through a premiere hosted by Black Metal Promotion.

Released on September 25 via Dusktone, the record unfolds as a continuous descent through four interconnected chapters, each centred on a different stage of an increasingly troubled inner journey. Set against a stark vision of Helheim drawn from Norse mythology, the album uses this otherworldly setting to explore isolation, doubt, psychological collapse, fragile hope and sacrifice.

Musically, ISKALD retain the melodic backbone that has defined their work while giving the songs greater breadth, allowing forceful passages to coexist with colder, more expansive sections. The result is a record conceived as a complete narrative rather than a collection of unrelated tracks, with each movement leading naturally into the next.

Stream "Curse of the Mind" at THIS LOCATION.

DOOMBRINGER zamykają skład Death Is Not The End IV

 

Można odsłuchać nowy CRITICAL DEFIANCE

 

Today, Chilean thrashers Critical Defiance stream the entirety of their highly anticipated fourth album, Rivers of Blood, at the New Wave of Old School Thrash Metal YouTube channel. Set for international release on September 25th via Dying Victims Productions, hear Critical Defiance's Rivers of Blood in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Recenzja Crucifixor “Enalteciendo los Antiguos Principios de la Rebelión”

 Crucifixor

“Enalteciendo los Antiguos Principios de la Rebelión”

Iron, Blood and Death Corporation 2026

Crucifixor to duet z Kolumbii, a jego członkowie to dość aktywni muzycznie grajkowie, udzielający się, obecnie i w przeszłości, w przynajmniej kilku innych projektach. Nazwy ich jednak niewiele mi mówią, więc może odpuszczę sobie wyliczankę, i przejdę od razu do rzeczy. Mimo iż „Enalteciendo los Antiguos Principios de la Rebelión” jest debiutanckim albumem zespołu, twór ten datuje swoje początki na wczesne lata dwutysięczne. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Funeral Witchery „Beyond the Light”

 Funeral Witchery

„Beyond the Light”

InViMa Records 2026

Funeral Witchery to czterech gości z Arizony, którzy w 2020 roku postanowili grać black metal. Tak też się stało i po wydaniu demosa, kilku cyfrowych singli, nadszedł czas na debiut. Oto on, „Beyond the Light”, zawierający wraz z interludiami dziewięć numerów diabelszczyzny, która mocno kojarzyć się może z późniejszym Immortal czy dość przystępnymi produkcjami od Lord Belial. (Czytaj dalej...)

Wznowienie debiutu AGGRESSION

 

Xtreem Music is proud to announce the definitive reissue of the genuine first album by legendary Canadian Thrash Metal band AGGRESSION, which didn't saw the light of day back in 1986: “Forgotten Skeleton”, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of what was originally meant to be its release.

Listen to the first advance single here:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xY3q__wk3iE

Although this album was previously released on CD and LP, in 2004 and 2005 respectively, under the name AGGRESSION A.D. and with cover designs that had nothing to do with the original concept, the time has finally come to do justice to this true lost piece of Canadian Thrash. For this edition, we have retrieved from the vault the original artwork and layout created in 1986 and never used, meticulously restoring it along with the original song lyrics and photo collage. The originally intended track listing has also been restored, accompanied by liner notes from the band themselves explaining the story behind a recording that, due to an unfortunate chain of circumstances, never saw the light of day and was later re-recorded, featuring some different songs, in 1987 under the title “The Full Treatment”.

“Forgotten Skeleton” is a genuine time capsule, capturing all the rawness, speed and intensity of early AGGRESSION, when the band still had its original vocalist and two guitarists and was tearing through Canada and seemed destined to become one of the leading names in the Thrash Metal scene of the era. A recording lost for four decades that will finally see the light of day exactly as it was originally conceived in 1986.

“Forgotten Skeleton” will be released on November 26th through Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP, Cassette and Digital formats.

Nowy HYVER w przyszłym miesiącu

 

On October 8th internationally, Antiq is proud to present Hyver's highly anticipated fourth album, La Fête de la Forêt Enchantée.

Hyver decided to answer to Taufpatin's attacks - but only with positivity, brightness and joy, and delight. Here, Hyver unites with Koshka Netopyr (Little Bat) to deliver a monument of raw black metal with bat shrieks as vocals. Playful synths join aggressive drumming and shrieks of happiness / euphoric bursts of joy. The album concept is contained only in the song titles, and we can discover by the list of it the pitch of a forest-feast: from invitation to the mysterious path of the forest, to the dance party, raising a toast until...someone stamps on a toad. The party ends suddenly in confusion, and in the howling of the sirens of an ambulance trying to save the poor batrachian's life.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "La Danse de la Forêt Enchantée" both HERE at Antiq's official YouTube channel as well as HERE at Antiq's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hyver's La Fête de la Forêt Enchantée

1. L'Invitation

2. Un Chemin Mystérieux

3. Dans la Clairière

4. A la Lune Levée

5. La Danse de la Forêt Enchantée

6. Le Toast des Crapauds

7. Le Ver de Trop

8. Arrivée de l'Ambulance

Recenzja Doombringer „Ad Compita!”

 Doombringer

„Ad Compita!”

Nuclear War Now! / Into Endless Chaos Rec. 2026

Trochę chłopakom zajęło nagranie następcy “Walpurgis Fires”. „Jedynie” siedem lat. Biorąc jednak pod uwagę zaangażowanie Sadista w przynajmniej kilka projektów pobocznych, można przymknąć na to oko. Tym bardziej, że jeśli coś ma być dobre, to musi dojrzewać w odpowiednich warunkach, bynajmniej nie cierpiących pośpiechu. Dobra, jest nowy album, i co? (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Autumnfall „The Archaic Sins”

 Autumnfall

„The Archaic Sins”

Ardua Music 2026

To już czwarty album Finów z Autumnfall, zaś moje, pierwsze z nimi spotkanie. Panowie grają harmonijnie i ujmująco, ale nazywanie tego po prostu melodyjnym black metalem, to chyba ciut za mało. Tercet ten gra chwytliwie, ale żeby było jasne, nie są to żadne swawolne przytupajki czy leśno-odpustowe przygrywki, udające złe jak sam diabeł. (Czytaj dalej...)

Zapowiedź nowego BONJOUR TRISTESSE

 

Today, AOP Records announces November 20th as the international release date for Bonjour Tristesse's highly anticipated fifth album, Disaster Triumphant.

Bonjour Tristesse play atmospheric black metal that is rooted in contempt for industrial civilization, grief for this dying planet we call our home, and reverence for the natural world. The band weave a symphony of sadness, wrath, alienation, and inner emptiness with a sense of strength that arises from unabashed resilience and standing alone in the face of adversity.

“The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.” – Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno

The title of Bonjour Tristesse’s latest album, Disaster Triumphant, is taken from this quote. Founder Nathanael (also of Heretoir) was heavily inspired by the Dialectic of Enlightenment by philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. They highlighted the double-edged nature of the Enlightenment, which, on the one hand, reined in superstition and religion, but on the other hand, subjected humanity and the natural world to entirely new constraints through technological progress, industrial civilization, the myth of human supremacy, and the consequences of mass society.

The album cover by Abismo Black Arts also references this ambivalence that shapes our reality and aptly illustrates the core ideas of the Dialectic of Enlightenment and Disaster Triumphant alike. A critique of this “enlightened” yet thoroughly life-denying and nature-destroying “civilized” world underlies most songs on Disaster Triumphant. Other topics covered in the lyrics include meditations on loss, grief, melancholy, interpersonal feelings and the wish to retreat from a world that is sinking deeper into chaos day by day.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Tomb of Hope" HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Bonjour Tristesse's Disaster Triumphant

1. The Heights of Despair [11:02]

2. At the Mountains of Silence [11:45]

3. Tomb of Hope [10:22]

4. Lingering in the Twilight of Shadows [1:55]

5. Disaster Triumphant [12:20]

Nowy RUNEMAGICK już dostępny

 

Step away from the present. Enter the Death/Doom/Pagan world of Runemagick! Listen in solitude to this journey and give it time to comprehend. Runemagick's new epic double album "After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil" is out today on 2-CD, 2-LP and digital!

Get your copy here: https://runemagick.lnk.to/afterchaos

This deluxe double album is entirely composed and performed by Nicklas Rudolfsson and mixed and mastered by Andy La Rocque (King Diamond, Lex Legion, Death) at Sonic Train Studios. The artwork by Pablo Robbio (Spectrum Art) and Danny Pham with additional illustrations by Dísa Draugurinn, based on visions insired by listening to demos and lyrics of the album.

Tracklist:

A Journey Through the Cosmic Weave of Urðr Part I

Movement A - The Stillness After Collapse

A1. After Chaos

A2. Rune Magick Unbound

Movement B - Vigil Beneath the Weave

B1. The Nocturnal Vigil

B2. Urðr’s Cosmic Weave

A Journey Through the Cosmic Weave of Urðr Part II

Movement C - Continuity Beyond Form

C1. Abyssal Continuum

C2. Formless Dawn

Movement D - Dissolution into the Unbounded

D1. The Vast That Knows No Shape

D2. Into the Endless Continuance

Drugi album UHRITULET za miesiąc

 

Today, Purity Through Fire announces October 19th as the international release date for Uhritulet's highly anticipated second album, Ruumissavotta, on digipack CD format.

In 2023, Uhritulet appeared out of the black with their self-titled debut album for Purity Through Fire. The work of one V.P., Uhritulet were much like labelmates Sarkrista, but in reverse: Finnish by geography but German in sound - specifically, the martial nastiness of olde-worlde Teutonic standard-bearers Luror and Hellfucked. Pure & proud BLACK METAL, no more but definitely no less, Uhritulet soundly struck a blow to modernity, harkening to clandestine days of the '90s underground.

Thankfully, very little has changed in the world of Uhritulet the past three years, and they return with their second album, Ruumissavotta. The recording on LP#2 strips back some of the rawness of the debut in favor of unique sort of clarity: cold and dead yet somehow alive, fuzz as sharp as razors but gleaming with malice, altogether still as physical and fully suiting the aesthetic. Uhritulet still largely move at a mid-tempo at their fastest, but much of the martial aspect has been intensified to the point of being BEATDOWN black metal. Indeed, Ruumissavotta bears the hooliganism so central to so many bands under the Purity Through Fire banner, but it's the subtle details that elevate Uhritulet above minimalism for its own sake - folkish, characteristically Finnish melancholy shot through the maximally-executed hooks and well-timed detours into quieter, cleaner territory without losing said malice among them. And even with a strident muscularity coming to the fore, the songwriting on Ruumissavotta simmers to a boil arguably even more so than the no-less-considerable Uhritulet; that V.P. brandishes some Isengard-style clean vocals occasionally brings the temperature down considerably, and adds a further idiosyncratic touch to his strictured-yet-textured songcraft.

Folkloric filth still against the modern world, Uhritulet continue to ruin your day with Ruumissavotta!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "Ruumissavotta" HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Uhritulet's Ruumissavotta

1. Ruumissavotta

2. Pedon Ruumis

3. Piru & Tietäjä

4. Synninpäästö

5. Väärä profeetta

6. Verestä

7. Freezing Winds Over The Hills of Kolkku

8. Liekin Takaa (demo) - bonus track