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Requiem in White named themselves after the Catholic Mass for the Dead, played the New York underground in a former Episcopal church on 20th Street, and circulated their recordings on...
The Ruins of Beverast is Alexander von Meilenwald's solo project, formed in Aachen, Germany in 2003. Seven full-lengths in, he named the latest after enkoimesis, the ancient Greek practice of...
Named after Bir Tawil, Xavier Godart’s solo project has spent more than a decade treating isolation as a working method. On Dua Min, live performance and a tighter electronic framework...
Mauna Sol. Photo: self
Romania's Mauna Sol on "A New Life" and the secular desert at the heart of The Calling.
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...
On Blessings and Curses, Noise builds Non Est Deus around prayers and biblical citations rather than generic anti-religious provocation. The fifth album is strongest when scripture and criticism remain in...
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...
Released in December 2025 through Terratur Possessions, We Are Him is a visceral reminder of what happens when black metal is played with genuine, predatory intent. Omega handles every instrument...
Another December in Berlin, another weekend spent hiding from the sleet inside the massive concrete shell of the ORWOhaus for De Mortem et Diabolum.
This newest album, The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, is the synthesis of those extremes, a commandingly ambitious work that finds M. channeling the dark theatricality of the past while pushing...
Der Weg einer Freiheit turn inward on their sixth album, using blast-beat violence, piano, silence, and recurring images of suffering and renewal. Innern means “inward,” not “to remember,” and the...
From my own little doom metal universe, the two nights in Demmin felt less like stepping outside than walking a parallel path. Doom often reaches beyond place, carrying its gravity...