Recenzja Hellfuck “9 Nails Hammered into the Flesh of God”

 Hellfuck

“9 Nails Hammered into the Flesh of God”

Godz ov War 2026

Kiedy to trzy i pół roku temu ukazał się debiutancki krążek Hellfuck, pomyślałem, że to taki jednorazowy wybryk kilku znanych na krajowej scenie muzyków, oddających w ten sposób hołd dla starego, teutońskiego thrashu, przy którym zapewne dorastali. Jednocześnie miałem nadzieję, że się mylę, zwłaszcza że „Diabolic Slaughter” mocno mną pozamiatał, i wracałem do tej płyty z wielką przyjemnością. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Egregore „It Echoes in the Wild”

 Egregore

„It Echoes in the Wild”

20 Buck Spin 2026

To ten kanadyjski Egregore, który w ostatniej dekadzie marca zaprezentuje drugą odsłonę swojego spojrzenia na black-death metal. Podobnie jak na debiucie, będzie to spora dawka ametodycznego grania, które momentami zalatuje wczesnym Morbid Angel. Poza typowymi akordami dla ekipy Trey’a, które objawiają się na „It Echoes in the Wild” jako dobrze znane „ścinki” gitarowe czy charakterystyczne solówki, to znajdziecie tu również mnóstwo mocno pokręconych rytmów (Czytaj dalej...)

Singiel NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE

 

Today, Canadian black metal cult Nocturnal Departure reveal the new track "Spiritual Cessation." The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, Spiritual Cessation, which will see release later this spring via Hells Headbangers. Hear Nocturnal Departure's title track "Spiritual Cessation" in its entirety HERE at Hells Headbangers' official YouTube channel.

BEZKRES zapowiadają debiut

 

Today, Signal Rex announces April 10th as the international release date for Bezkres' highly anticipated debut album, Naturalna nietolerancja, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Following a demo in 2024 and the Signal Rex-released Odwieczny zew agresji EP last year, Poland's Bezkres now make their full-length debut. Naturalna nietolerancja is a raw and uncompromising black metal statement forged in the spirit of the '90s underground. Cold, austere, and openly hostile, the album rejects human weakness, religious corruption, and false transcendence. Across nine tracks, spanning into 40 minutes, Bezkres channel nature as an ancient, merciless presence, older than belief, untouched by morality.

Built on repetitive, frostbitten riffs, stripped-down structures, and an unpolished sound true to the genre’s origins, Naturalna nietolerancja unfolds as a solitary passage through contempt, willpower, annihilation, and disappearance. There is no spectacle, no modern gloss - only severity, distance, and the cold clarity of stone. This is black metal rooted in isolation and negation, faithful to the underground ethos of the '90s and indifferent to anything beyond it.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "Naturalna nietolerancja" HERE at Signal Rex's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Bezkres' Naturalna nietolerancja

1. Majestat kamiennych monumentów

2. Ludzkie ścierwo

3. Marność wiary plugawego krzyża

4. Przełęcz zatracenia

5. Siła woli

6. Naturalna nietolerancja

7. Nieskończony szlak

8. Anihilacja

9. W poszukiwaniu samotności w skalnym labiryncie

Nowy MYLINGAR w kwietniu

 

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces April 17th as the international release date for Mylingar's highly anticipated fourth album, Út, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

After a first trilogy that left a searing mark on the death / black metal scene and seven years of silence, Mylingar rises again from the abyss with the first volume of a new trilogy, Út.

Despite what certain archives may say, Mylingarare an anonymous band from an anonymous location. And thankfully, after that silence, the quartet have lost none of their bad manners: their death metal remains putrid and vicious, giving pride of place to dissonance. The inhuman vocals, one of the band's defining strengths, dominate this suffocating, morbid whole and herald a new trilogy that reeks more than ever of sulfur, chaos, and death.

Út is clearly not an album for everyone; it is an outlet for sonic violence, where morality, common sense, and order are trampled underfoot by four diseased minds whose hibernation has had no calming effect. Beware.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "rækta" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Mylingar's Út

1. Megi

2. blóð

3. mitt

4. rækta

5. jarðveginn

6. af

7. neðan

Singiel od LEGIONARY

 

New Jersey-based, Melodic Death/Thrash Band, Legionary, have released a lyric video for "Controllers of Perception, the second single from forthcoming album, Never-Ending Quest for Purpose.

Look and listen at: youtu.be/E_TqluC0ssM

"Controllers of Perception" is also available on Bandcamp.

Nowy kawałek TERATOMA

 

Today, German death metallers Teratoma premiere the new track "Stertorous Whisper" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Longing Veracity, set for international release on March 25th via Me Saco Un Ojo Records. Hear Teratoma's "Stertorous Whisper" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Stertorous Whisper" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Longing Veracity" HERE at Me Saco Un Ojo's Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Teratoma (Germany)'s Longing Veracity

1. Exordium

2. Longing Voracity

3. Chaotic Bewilderment

4. Ravaged and Absorbed

5. Perpetual Anguish

6. Circle of Perdition

7. ⁠Interim

8. Festering Realm

9. Spewing Atrocities

10. ⁠Stertorous Whisper

Singiel od MALAURIU

 

Decibel Magazine is hosting the exclusive premiere of "Satanic Witch", a thunderous new single from Italian black metal act MALAURIU's impending third full-length album, “The Third Nail”, due out April 3rd, 2026 through Adirondack Black Mass.

Stream "Satanic Witch" at THIS LOCATION.

The record represents a bold evolution for the band, merging the raw intensity of black metal with a punk-infused aggression, while showcasing meticulous attention to detail in a warm, organic production that brings out the full depth of the compositions.

Recorded between Italy and the UK from 2024 to 2025, “The Third Nail” is the result of over a decade of dedication to the rawest and most primitive essence of black metal. The album features eight original tracks alongside a ferocious cover of GG Allin, which further highlights the band’s punk attitude and includes guest appearances by Dr. Heathen Scum (Mentors, USA) and Diego Do'Urden (Mystifier).

The album’s artwork draws on Sicilian traditions where the sacred and the profane collide, from blood-stained processions to brutal reenactments of the Crucifixion, creating a ritualistic atmosphere where faith is intertwined with horror, gore, and the occult.

Mixing was handled by Carlo Altobelli at Toxic Basement Studio (Italy), a recognized figure in extreme underground production, while mastering was completed at Necromorbus Studio (Sweden), famed for work with acts like Mayhem, Watain, Funeral Mist, and Shining.

Now based in London, UK, with a solid live lineup, MALAURIU will bring “The Third Nail” to stages across Europe in 2026, delivering a live experience that amplifies the album’s dark intensity and ritualistic energy.

Tracklist:

1 Rising From The Cemetery

2 Empowerment Rites

3 Death Celebration

4 Hell Mouth

5 Satanic Witch

6 The Curse of All Flesh

7 Purple Ceremony

8 Monotheistic Filth

9 Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die (GG Allin cover)

Recenzja Overtoun „Death Drive Anthropology”

 Overtoun

„Death Drive Anthropology”

Time To Kill Rec. 2026

Dziś znów zaglądamy do Chile. Jakoś tak w ostatnim czasie sporo było u nas recenzji płyt z tamtego zakątka świata, no ale co poradzisz… Overtoun pochodzą z Santiago, a “Death Drive Anthropology” jest ich już trzecim dużym krążkiem. Jakoś dotychczas nie było mi z nimi po drodze. Może dlatego, że na słowo „progressive” reaguję jak alergik na pyłki, co nie znaczy, że gatunku bardziej technicznego grania unikam za wszelką cenę. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Aabode „Hyper-Death”

 Aabode

„Hyper-Death”

Godz Ov War (2026)

 

Francuski duet Aabode, zaistniał bardzo wyraźnie i trwale na moim horyzoncie muzycznym przed dwoma laty, przy okazji debiutanckiego albumu „Neo-Age”. Ich blackmetalowa ekspresja przefiltrowana przez industrialno-EBMową optykę przełomu lat 80. i 90. w połączeniu z narkotycznym abstraktem wylewającym się nader często nie tylko trafiła w mój gust, ale realnie sprawiła, że czekałem na kolejne słowo Francuzów i to, w które miejsce zaciągną swoje pomysły tym razem. (Czytaj dalej...)

Black Night w Szczecinie

 

Singiel od CALVANA

 

Today, Italian black metallers Calvana premiere the new track "Summer Storm" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, Sub Janus, set for international release on March 20th via Adirondack Black Mass. Hear Calvana's "Summer Storm" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Established in 2015 at the foot of the Calvana massif, Italy's Calvana exist solely to amplify the voice of the mountain as a singular, monolithic entity. To preserve this focus, the identities of the members remain shrouded in total anonymity. To date, two equally cryptically titled albums - 2020's IɅ and 2022's III┼ - stand as the documentation of their work, singular and defiant.

Now, Calvana emerge from the darkness with their third full-length, Sub Janus. As trend-free as ever, the record captures the primal rage of the peaks and the elemental wrath of nature, forged in the fires of old-school black metal. Rough and robust, their roiling screeds of fury remain as potent as ever, locating that ever-elusive balance between the cryogenic and the lava-like. All instruments hold equal weight in their rustic, all-analog soundfield - particularly bass guitar, an instrument often relegated to nonexistence in black metal - further grounding Calvana's elemental nature. Similarly, their old-school black metal truly does sound OLD on Sub Janus, never recalling anything remotely modern nor much else from the darkest past; the songwriting weaves through various states of hypnotic violence, with grim marches dotting the stark landscape, but perhaps only domestic enigmas Altar of Perversion could be the closest reference. Taken on its own, Sub Janus is desolate, lightless, and strangely expansive.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Summer Storm" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Death of Pan" HERE at Adirondack Black Mass' Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Calvana's Sub Janus

1. Twilight Song

2. My Prayer to Diana

3. Summer Storm

4. Fear Makes You Tame

5. Death of Pan

6. Meine Süße Sternenkriegerin

7. Carnivore

8. Sorry

9. Sub Janus

Drugi HARMS w maju

 

Finnish purveyors of atmospheric heaviness and recent Time To Kill Records signees HARMS will release their second full-length album, "Rebirth of the Cold", on May 8th 2026.

The first single "True Night Falls" is now available:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2tFEEQfttH8

Streaming: https://ffm.to/harms-true-night-falls

With "Rebirth of the Cold", HARMS move deeper into darkness: heavier, more melodic, and more aggressive than before. The music feels colder and more intense, built around tension and collapse, where moments of bleak beauty are sharpened and the weight of the band’s sound hits harder than ever. At times, their approach can be seen as an ingenious fusion of post-metal expansiveness, blackened contours and a fierce metallic hardcore edge, shaping a sound that is both emotionally immersive and physically punishing. Lyrically, the album continues their exploration of meaninglessness, emptiness, and decay, colored by reflections on time, space, and mortality: a meditation in grief, stripped of comfort and illusion, searching for what remains when nothing holds meaning.

Tracklist:

01.Endlessness

02..Serpentine calling

03.True night falls

04.Flowerless grave

05.A lifetime spent on dying

06.Rupture

07.Essence of sorrow

08.Apollonia

09.Cold aeon of time

10.Reprise

Można sprawdzić debiut HARROWED

 

Today, Swedish death metallers Harrowed stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, The Eternal Hunger, at Decibel magazine's website. Set for international release on February 27th via Dying Victims Productions, hear Harrowed's The Eternal Hunger in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Zapowiedź nowego VARGRAV

 

Today, Werewolf Records announces April 17th as the international release date for the highly anticipated fourth album of Finland's Vargrav, Dimension: Daemonium, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

From the dawn of the classic debut album, Netherstorm, in 2018, Finland's Vargrav have almost single-handedly reinvigorated the oft-maligned symphonic black metal subgenre. Forged in fires from the ancients - founder V-Khaoz's credentials are vast and stretch back decades - and stoking the embers last left by Obtained Enslavement and Norway's Covenant and Odium, Vargrav's first two albums stand as proud pillars of shimmering, classics-based obsidian.

However, it was 2023's literally MASSIVE The Nighthold where Vargrav eclipsed all prior achievements. With a lineup that included the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon on vocals and Moonsorrow members Trollhorn of the Black Harvest on guitars / bass and Baron M. Tarwonen on drums, Vargrav's swirling, cosmic surge hit a fever pitch of potency - and the filmic elements latent to their sound became a movie unto themselves. It was not unjust to liken this third album to Covenant's classic Nexus Polaris.

Now, as their second era continues unchained, Vargrav return with their fourth full-length, Dimension: Daemonium. Tellingly titled, Dimension: Daemonium sees an extension of the cosmic surge that so marked its towering predecessor. Pared down to a duo of V-Khaoz and Werwolf, Dimension: Daemonium is likewise "only" 43 minutes, but it feels no less huge. Songs strike immediately and then stretch out, the clarity even more sparkling, imparting a unique juxtaposition between nasty execution and glimmering atmosphere. Indeed, those atmospheres arguably journey to dreamier locales, but ones blanketed in the dead chill of space. Because in space - or, perhaps, the sad realm of the stars - no one can hear you scream...

Furious yet finessed, breathtaking stained-glass visions stained with stardust shot from a black hole, and darkly dramatic as ever: Vargrav cement their position as THE vanguard of symphonic black metal with Dimension: Daemonium!

In the the meantime, hear the previously revealed tracks "Moonfrost Storms" HERE and "Gates of My Dimension" HERE, both at Werewolf Records' official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vargrav (Finland)'s Dimension: Daemonium

1. Intro (Thy Daemonium)

2. Ablaze Upon the Nocturnal Realms

3. Moonfrost Storms

4. Dragons of Nightmare

5. The Gates of My Dimension

6. Bleeding Galaxies

7. Starlight Chalice

8. Unveil the Enslavement of Lunar Prophecies