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Review: 1349 - Winter Mass (2025)
1349's Winter Mass (8.5/10) is a ferocious live album, capturing the Norwegian Black Metal band's uncompromising aural hellfire. Read the full review!
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Review: Stworz - U Εmierci na Komornem (2025)
Stworz's U Εmierci na Komornem (7,5/10). This folk-infused Polish Pagan BM album is a solemn meditation on heritage and mortality. Read the full review!
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Review: Bloedmaan - Vampyric War in Blood (2025)
Bloedmaan's Vampyric War in Blood (8/10). This Atmospheric Black Metal album delivers cold, melodic sound with a haunting vampiric aesthetic. Read the full review!
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Review: Adorn - Adorn
Adorn - Self-titled (7.5/10). This self-titled release mixes elegant, uplifting black gaze riffs with intricate, lush orchestration, inviting you into a gorgeous 17th-century world. Read the full review!
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Review: 1914 - Viribus Unitis
1914 - Viribus Unitis (8/10). The Ukrainian Blackened Death/Doom war machine delivers an unyielding onslaught of vicious riffs and historical horror. Read the full review!
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Review: Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
Lamp of Murmuur's The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (8.5/10) is a symphonic, melodic opus of clean vocals and fallen gods. Experience the whirlwind! Read more.
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Review: Suffering Hour β Impelling Rebirth
Suffering Hour's Impelling Rebirth (9/10) is a dissonant BM EP driven by neoclassical melody and jarring tech-thrash. Read the full story!
Swedish Black Metal
Review: Haimad - When Night Rode Across the North
Haimad's long-awaited debut, When Night Rode Across the North (8.5/10), is a strong return to cold, mid-90s Swedish Melodic Black Metal. Read the full review!
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Review: WitcheR - ΓrΓΆklΓ©t
WitcheR's ΓrΓΆklΓ©t (7.5/10). This Atmospheric Black Metal opus delivers majestic classical influences and profound emotional depth. Read the full review!
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From the Vault: Summoning - Stronghold
Summoning's Stronghold (1999) is an Atmospheric Black Metal cornerstone that translates Tolkienβs mythic grandeur into sound. Read the full review!
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Review: Achathras - A Darkness of the Ancient Past
Achathrasβ A Darkness of the Ancient Past (7.5/10) is a debut that resurrects the cold heart of Second Wave Black Metal. See the full review!
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Review - Dense Fog - Dense Fog
Dense Fog's self-titled debut (7/10). This master class in Atmospheric Black Metal blends stunning classical piano with majestic, haunting riffs. Read the full review!