Leviathan’s “A Silhoutte In Splinters” is recommended to any noise/ambient fans who would like to hear some ambient done right by a black metal band. 

CD in deluxe Digipak with 16-page booklet.

With their upcoming sixth album ‘The Tritonus Bell’, the Finns continue to impress with immaculate songwriting skills and the perfect balance between harsh death metal fuelled outbursts, and exquisite melodic melancholy.

Arizona is best known for its desert landscapes and grand canyons. Yet GOG mastermind Michael Bjella paints a very different picture of his native state with "Ironworks". 

CD with bonus track "When Ruin Beckons" (99 demo) in Digipak with 8-page booklet

EARTH ELECTRIC are the new exciting brainchild of Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen. The Norwegian mastermind is known and praised for his stylistically diverse output within a mostly metal framework, which includes highly acclaimed compositions for MAYHEM, AURA NOIR, AVA INFERI, and TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.

An early progenitor of funeral doom, Norway's FUNERAL have returned with ’Praesentialis in Aeternum,’ their first new album in nearly a decade!

ON THORNS I LAY are Greek titans. Where their peers in Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Nightfall were swayed more by symphonic and black metal, this Athens band went for a taste of the gothic on their 1994 debut. Which makes sense; after all, they are named after a Shakespearean sonnet.

Samsara Work summons five chthonic explorations using all the hallmark instrumentation of the genre to great effect; liturgical chants and spectral vocal incantations, minor keyboard orchestrations, resonant chimes and prayer bowls, ceremonial percussion, and atmospheric drift ensconced in sepulchral reverb. It’s a tapestry of richly detailed and layered sounds that emanate from candlelit chambers and underground passages, and an intoxicating and majestic homage to the darkest of arts.

Lucifer III is the third studio album by LUCIFER who celebrated massive international success with 2018’s much acclaimed “Lucifer II”, which saw the 2014 formed band’s new constellation reach a new level of songcraft and sheer impact. Uniting the songwriting talents of Johanna Sadonis and Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, Entombed, Imperial State Electric), “Lucifer III” now further perfects the group’s stunning mix of 70’s hard rock, tinges of doom, doses of classic heavy metal and addictive choruses resulting in powerful ballads (‘Leather Demon’, ‘Cemetery Eyes’), straight up rockers (‘Flanked By Snakes’, ‘Ghosts’), catchy anthems (‘Lucifer’, ‘Midnight Phantom’, ‘Pacific Blues’) and Sabbathian heaviness (‘Coffin Fever’). 

Shibalba's music is saturated with the mysticism of the East. It's richly detailed and multidimensional, while layered with chanting and broadly defined elements of traditional ritual and shamanic music. Apart from contemporary synths and guitar drones, the band makes use of bones and skulls as percussion instruments, Tibetan horns, Tibetan singing bowls, bone & horne trumpets, darbuka's (goblet drums) as well as ceremonial bells and gongs.

Even without a North American booking agent (until just recently) Black Cobra has gone on seven U.S., one European, one UK only, one Belgium only (Can you do a Belgium only tour ?- yes you can!) and one extended 10 day tour of Japan since the 2006 release of Bestial. B.C. have played absolutely empty rooms to in front of 3000 people at the Dour Festival. Shows have been with everyone from Tragedy to the The Sword and tours with everyone from Torche to Eternal Elysium (Japan).

TRUE WIDOW's signature alternation between male and female vocals helps further blur the boundaries between the heft of stoner rock, the droning atmosphere of shoegaze, and the twangy catchiness of blues and indie rock. 

Funeral Death Doom from Finland.

Finnish band Burial Choir returns with their third full-length album, “Descension Of Firmament“.

Sublime mix of Mourning Beloveth, Graveyard Dirt and old Anathema.

Lucifer III is the third studio album by LUCIFER who celebrated massive international success with 2018’s much acclaimed “Lucifer II”, which saw the 2014 formed band’s new constellation reach a new level of songcraft and sheer impact. Uniting the songwriting talents of Johanna Sadonis and Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, Entombed, Imperial State Electric), “Lucifer III” now further perfects the group’s stunning mix of 70’s hard rock, tinges of doom, doses of classic heavy metal and addictive choruses resulting in powerful ballads (‘Leather Demon’, ‘Cemetery Eyes’), straight up rockers (‘Flanked By Snakes’, ‘Ghosts’), catchy anthems (‘Lucifer’, ‘Midnight Phantom’, ‘Pacific Blues’) and Sabbathian heaviness (‘Coffin Fever’). 

Leviathan’s “A Silhoutte In Splinters” is recommended to any noise/ambient fans who would like to hear some ambient done right by a black metal band. 

Bong are back, presenting two side-long slabs of deep space power. In the three years since they last graced our stereos, Bong have augmented their strategy of crushing riffs and momentous drum rhythms with extra lashings vibes cosmic energy. The second track, for instance, with its superbly portentous Borges-quoting title, is remarkably ‘up’ for Bong. Thought And Existence is out on Ritual Productions.

Combining elements of horror-film soundtracks, psychedelic doom, and atmospheric noise, INSECT ARK is comprised of Dana Schechter (bass, lap steel guitar, synthesizers) and Ashley Spungin (drums, synthesizers). INSECT ARK’s intensely visual music weaves interludes of fragile beauty with crushing passages of swirling doom, spinning like a backwards fever dream. “Marrow Hymns” is a wordless song, a hypnotic voice that screams and whispers from a place deep in the furrows, from the bones, from the blood.

Instrumental psychedelic doom duo Insect Ark have creating uncomfortable sonicscapes that feel both intimate and icy cold since 2011. Nightmarish horror film-like visions, outer space travel, and gritty noir textures – all of this and more have been conjured up in their past records, the much-praised Portal / Well (2015) and Marrow Hymns (2018), but now, something even bigger is coming. Prepare for The Vanishing.