Review: Sisyphean – Divergence

Sisyphean’s third album funnels Camus, a medieval emperor’s epithet, and the psychology of manipulation into 42 minutes of dissonant black/death metal from Vilnius. Produced at Poland’s Hertz Studio, Divergence is the sharpest and most daring record yet from a band built around one guitarist’s twelve-year refusal to stop.

Review: Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses

Noise, the anonymous German musician behind Kanonenfieber and Leiþa, returns with the fifth Non Est Deus full-length. Blessings and Curses is his most chaotic record yet: melodic black metal built for festival crowds that never loses the claustrophobia of a one-man operation, and an indictment of religious coercion that lets the scripture do the talking.

Review: The Ruins of Beverast – Tempelschlaf (2026)

Twenty-three years into one of extreme metal’s most uncompromising discographies, The Ruins of Beverast deliver Tempelschlaf: seven tracks of blackened doom that move closer to the live stage than anything von Meilenwald has attempted before, while remaining as resistant to easy interpretation as the oracular dreams the album takes its name from.