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In many ways, Like Twisted Bones of Fallen Giants is a natural continuation of Hollow Woods' debut album, Cold Winds Cleave the Earth, from 2021. Familiar elements - pure & proud BLACK METAL, done with personality and charisma - are recast in more varied ways. The production across the album is a bit more airy compared to that debut, but still far from overly polished. Likewise, overt aggression is dialed down a bit to make room for more epic passages, where acoustic guitar gives support to powerful clean vocals. As no doubt presaged by the album's title, lyrical themes here deal with nature mysticism, atavism, and specifically slash-and-burn as a metaphor of personal growth unburdened by the past.

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signal Rex announces May 1st as the international release date for Brakel's highly anticipated debut album, Wranger Wanen, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

The first full-length recording of Belgium's Brakel, Wranger Wanen comprises nine songs across a time-evaporating / stretching 27 minutes. Signposts among raw black metal's elite exist here - be it Black Cilice, Candelabrum, Múspellzheimr, or those orbiting the Signal Rex-endorsed Clandestine Circle of Aldebaran - but beneath the alternately shocking / shimmering soundfield bubble torched debris of power electronics. Hateful and ghoulish in equal measure but utterly alien in effect, the ghostly surge of in-the-red decibels across Wranger Wanen get wrangled into obscene shapes; with all those indeterminate pulses underneath, sometimes Brakel's sound approaches the mechanistic...if the Industrial Revolution was visualized in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, such is the expressionist horror on display.

No identities, no fun, no past, no future: Brakel assault the unsuspecting with Wranger Wanen.

Norwegian Grammy-Winning rock band Seigmen are back with a new album called “Resonans” on May 3rd, 2024.

Ask yourself the question: How many bands have maintained the same lineup throughout a career spanning over three decades? Just count and see how far you get. Seigmen is and remains Alex, Sverre, Noralf, Kim, and Marius.

Seigmen's new album Resonans echoes the essence of a longstanding friendship. A strong bond among five guys who found each other through music, learned to play instruments, and express themselves together. They solidified their friendship through muddy and sour tones from the rehearsal room on the old submarine quay, down into a basement in the city center, out to a barn outside the city, up on the heights near the old library, down into the mountain beneath the same hill, and back to a rehearsal container at the old shipyard. Always tied to their home town, Tønsberg in Norway.

Resonans is the reverberation of endless evening rehearsals, weekends with “lefse” and freshly ground coffee in thermoses, and syncopations. Smiles, conversations, and gossip. The hard, precise, and long-term work. Love and art.

Resonans is guts and integrity, demonstrating the uncompromising nature that Seigmen has always represented.

Impressive new album for italian band Svart

A strong and greatly inspired guitar riffing and glacial yet very warm atmospheres makes this album unmissable for both atmospheric and/or cold raw black metal fans!

A cosmic journey through despair and desolation.

Brace yourselves for an aural odyssey that transcends boundaries, as OLIM, the visionary Canadian post-black metal entity, unveils its third full-length opus, "Because." Slated for a highly anticipated release on May 17th, 2024, this masterwork promises to be an intense and introspective exploration of the human psyche. Joe Caswell, the multi-talented force behind OLIM, has meticulously crafted a kaleidoscope of contrasting emotions, where uplifting melodies and cold, melancholic passages intertwine in a cathartic dance. This epic and highly atmospheric post-black metal journey will take listeners on an emotionally charged rollercoaster, oscillating between joy and sadness, pain and hope, as OLIM elevates the genre to new poetic heights, ushering us into a sonic dimension like no other.

Listen to the album here!

Reverb On Repeat is a shoegaze band formed by musicians from Trna, Rye, Somn and Olhava. Forced to be in different countries and record music remotely, the band set on to create songs of an indescribable feeling of close-knit loneliness.

Sonorous, sorrowful and stately, the band has built a liminal space all their own at the most melancholic and trance-inducing intersection of post-punk, shoegaze, goth rock and blackgaze.

This is an album for the eternal sleepless in spectral cities at grey dawn. The romanticism of the heart, imbalance of the head, winding path to the fall. A definitive statement in isolated dreaming.

Chicago-based progressive death metal band ABSCISSOR combines styles of post rock, post metal, deathcore, and the avant-garde.
"Metanoia", the debut album, represents the ache for growth in the midst of turbulence. A tale of memory and heart, that speaks to experiences we’ve all had as human beings.

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Since their previous albums "Mass Grave" and "Death Siege" - both released via Season of Mist - Hierophant paved their way into the extreme metal scene in Europe, with a relentless and furious approach.

Following the conquest of the most prestigious stages (Hellfest, MetalDays,
Party.San), the Death Siege ranks pushed the limit to the extreme and ultimately crafted the first live album in the band's career.
Recorded at Hellfest 2023, "Gateway to the Abyss" (released via Dusktone) is the feral representation of what Hierophant is about: Hatred, blood, nihility.
FIRE WILL RISE!

Through 4 tracks mixing funeral doom with ambient and darkwave, Until Death Overtakes Me explores the idea of life being incomplete unless it passes death's threshold.
Antemortem (before death) is not a glorification of death, but focusses on the path to it. Life with its pains and terrors might long for the end, but could just as well explore the freedom that comes with accepting the inevitable.
The contrast between heavy distorted guitars and ethereal ambient melodies mirrors life, but offers an open ending - is life a pained struggle, where one is shoved forwards, closer to death all the time, forcing one to blindly squeeze as much meaning out of every moment, or is it rather a calm stream that gently carries one to the completion of a journey that's best experienced with eyes wide open, regardless of what may come after? More likely, both aspects remain at play : primal instincts balanced by intelligent rationality.

Antemortem is the first Until Death Overtakes Me album after a long hiatus, and forms a bridge between the periods before and after this break.
The track 'Before' dates back to late 2003, 'Days Without Hope' is based on a track that's even older by several years, and best marks the point in time where Until Death Overtakes Me went from darkwave/doom to ambient funeral doom. On the other hand there are the tracks 'The Wait' and 'Inevitability', both from 2016. 'The Wait' is more a experimental, almost mechanical sounding epic, while 'Inevitability' is an instrumental marking the acceptance of the concept of 'Antemortem', as well as its conclusion. 

Missing. What if the searchers falter, pass away? When none are left that hope to find even something to bury, to mourn.
To be missing, to be never found. To never return, and fade away in the shadows of time. To become forgotten beyond all hope of recovery.

Until Death Overtakes Me's 2018 album contains over one hour of mournful funeral doom mixed with orchestral ambient. Missing, named after the song from Until Death Overtakes Me's earlier years, continues the story of that old epic. In four tracks the concepts of loss and being lost are explored.

There's the tragedy on a personal level, of searchers that fail, grow old and find no closure. Of the one lost, stuck in nothingness, wanting to be found. But tragedy grows, touches all, and the music becomes the soundtrack to the funeral of mankind. Empty tones drifting over the desolation, echoing through empty canyons. All the searchers have gone, all those missing are forgotten. There's no one left to remember, there's no hope left.
And when the proof and all remembrance of our existence is gone too, then have we truly been here at all? We're already missing.