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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.
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.
Der Weg einer Freiheit return with their sixth full-length, released through Season of Mist. Across six albums, the Würzburg group have refined their own language within black metal. With Noktvrn (2021), they leaned toward nocturnal atmosphere and extended use of piano, pulling their writing closer to dream states. Innern moves in another direction, stripped down to fury and fragility, pushing deeper into the body.
Bethlehem always stood as a border project. Their debut LP Dark Metal in 1994 was already a declaration of difference, a refusal to settle into black metal’s tropes or doom’s conventions. From there, Bartsch built an evolving stage where vocalists came and went, each one chosen to embody a different shade of madness.
Playlist Update 18.7.2025: Soliloquium; Morast; Veil Of Conspiracy
These are the albums we return to. Works that refuse to stay within the confines of music alone. The Boats of the Glen Carrig remains faithful to Hodgson’s novel and carries his ocean forward into another medium, letting its silence and strangeness take on new form.
Playlist Update 5.4.2025: Eternal Rot, Praise the Plague, Marrowfields
