Like all big things, Thy Catafalque come from small beginnings. Back in the late ’90s, Tamás Kátai started the project in his Hungarian hometown as a black metal duo that was never intended to leave the studio. Now, two decades later, the two-time Fonogram winner and his lively band of collaborators are about to release their most imaginative album yet.
Gaerea are waking into a new era. The Portuguese masked sensations are no longer strictly a black metal band. With Coma, they’ve surfaced to the top of extreme metal. Their critically acclaimed new album racked up more than 1 million streams within 24 hours of landing on Spotify.
Punishing noise levels are a natural force among metal’s various habitats. But after hearing the roar of chainsaws tear through Costa Rica’s rain forest, two angry metalheads are banging their heads together to protect our ecosystems.
As the embers of yesterday cast long shadows, THE OLD DEAD TREE strides forward, bearing the torch of their latest creation, The Lightest Straw—a gritty tale of resilience and the weight of unexpected downfalls.
A mighty force since the ’90s, MÖRK GRYNING‘s ferocious black metal refuses to yield to trends, instead honoring their feral forebears and carving an untamed path forward. As the world braces for the release of their latest apocalyptic symphony, Fasornas Tid, the band ignites the flames of anticipation with their new single, Black Angel.
Fronted by Justin Greaves, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX has carved a path that speaks to the voiceless, the marginalized, and the disenchanted. The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature is a raw and evocative testament to their journey – an anthology of reworked and re-recorded classics that resonate with renewed vigor and raw emotion.
CHANGELING, the visionary music project spearheaded by the eminent Tom Fountainhead, is thrilled to reveal the extraordinary ensemble of core musicians contributing to their highly-anticipated self-titled debut album. This electrifying venture under the auspices of the Season of Mist label propels Fountainhead’s signature guitar playing into the stratosphere of genre-defying mastery.
Few bands in the halls of metal have marched to a beat that’s more brazen, brutal and bizarre than Defeated Sanity. Thirty years after their flaming, cataclysmic demo, the underground legends have repeatedly slammed death metal on its deformed skull. Each member is a certified lunatic when it comes to breaking brains with their fine-tuned instruments, but the band’s punishing headiness is led by drummer Lile Gruber, their fleet-footed co-founder and singular mastermind.
For three decades, Tsjuder have never wavered in carrying the banner for true Norwegian black metal. But when their heretical drummer Anti-Christian bowed out ahead of their first album in eight years, founding members Nag and Draugluin needed a hellacious player to sit behind the throne.
A great alliance for biodiversity between Savage Lands and the Jane Goodall Institute France took place at UNESCO, where Dr. Jane Goodall delivered a “Speech for History”. They may not share the same taste in music, but these two change makers are banding together to preserve our ecosystems.
Ever since they set the world ablaze, Gaerea have raised the anticipation for their fourth album to an almost unbearable degree. From now on, the Portuguese masked sensations are no longer strictly a black metal band. Instead, they are emerging from the underground and clawing to the top of extreme metal.
Awaken, dear connoisseurs of cosmic horrors and celestial melodies. The grand architects of blackened mythos, THE GREAT OLD ONES, beckon you once more into the arcane and the infinite with their latest single, Me, The Dreamer. This hauntingly poetic prelude is the first offering from their impending album, Kadath.
CYNIC, the transcendental luminaries of progressive metal, are set to embark on a new chapter in their musical journey. Today, they announce The Aggressive Progressive Tour, a 25-date adventure across Europe & the UK in support of their genre-defying release, Ascension Codes.
Ever since their maniacal mastermind picked up his first pair of sticks at the tender age of six, Defeated Sanity have found newly inventive ways to spin death metal on its deformed head. This band of technical headbangers have broken onto the Billboard charts with jazz-infused chaos and even recorded a proggy split with…themselves?
A sonic evolution is about to being – moments come that mark the dawn of a renaissance, a rebirth through frames of raw sound and throbbing industrial pulse. Today, such a moment unfurls as Season of Mist welcomes YOUR INLAND EMPIRE, the entity once known as CROWN, into its revered fold.
FUNERAL returns with their latest soul-crushing masterpiece, Gospel of Bones. This is no mere album; it is an emotionally wrenching journey into the abyss of sorrow and the resilience of the human spirit.
Though well into their third decade, Cryptopsy still make blasphemy sound fresh. After all, the most vile band in the sordid history of death metal did win a coveted JUNO Award for their most recent album. But many underground metalheads trace the brutal Canadians’ resurgence back to the two EPs they released during the mid-2010s.
THE OLD DEAD TREE returns to confront our deepest fears with unparalleled sincerity and intensity.
Tamás Kátai never dreamed that Thy Catafalque would ever go beyond the recording studio. But over the past two decades, Kátai and his frequent band of collaborators have expanded far beyond not only Hungary’s borders but also the prickly boundaries of extreme metal. With each album, they’ve brought the world’s most vile art form into further conversation with the avant garde.
The mythic viking war trance duo EIHWAR has just unleashed an intimate new music video for their single Sir Mannelig, a masterful cover of the timeless classic Herr Mannelig.