Time for some weird stuff:

Los Crveles has a new album! Gotta love blackened surf rock.


Gallow's Forest does some kind of avantgarde lofi blackened death with funky folky instruments:


And this is a Finnish band with a long unpronountiable name doing some good quality punky thrashy (grind)hardcore


And Lunar Haze does instrumental neoclassical metal, except that you know... The good kind

Very aggressive and loud blackened post-hardcore/black metal. Really fresh sounding with good songwriting.

Dautha plays traditional doom metal in the vein of Candlemass and Spiritus Mortis. What makes this album special is the damn fine vocals, think of a much less cheesy Messiah. There's also a strong pressence of the violin, some sweet melodies thanks to that instrument.

Written by Mercurial on 10.07.2018 at 11:30

Varied, atmospheric and doomy old school death.

Ritual Necromancy

I second this. Best dm for me so far.....

What was originally to be a track for a split with Woe became a solitary song on a 10". Very good black metal.




Superb sludge, noise / post / rock / metal something.




Pretty interesting death metal this. Only two songs sadly, and they clearly had different production processes, but that second track is killer.




Warm, hazy psychedelic sludge. Digging his.




New thing from Psilocybe Larvae. Remember a few people on this site went lala over their previous album.




Not only are Aevangelist butchering their new records with subpar production, they even wrecked some of their older stuff with it as well in this new compilation, including Pendulum which is probably their best piece. Now ruined. (FYI it used to sound like this).




Burial Hordes new one sounds like it's going to be some nice earthy, modern black metal.

Ladies and germs, I present to you - INFOCORE.

^ Lol, surprisingly not bad.


Excellent, bizarro and somewhat experimental dissonant bm, with tons of atmosphere and off kilter vocals.




Rather atmospheric, soft-noise, seemingly improv black metal with esoteric folk touches. Two very long songs.




Strange, avant-garde, almost industrial death metal. I like the artwork more than the music.




Avant-garde, post-black. Vocals slightly make this appeal to me less but musically it's some very nice chaos.




Really nice, emotional prog doom, with a stoner band name.




Ultra heavy, aggressive post-metal / atmos-sludge.




Instrumental, proggy, jazzy avant-garde metal. Sounds good from the one track.

First new Essenz record in many years. Thought these guys had a bigger profile on here, but I guess not. Blackened death thing.




Probably just in the right mood, but digging this. Burzum-ish, raw and melancholic bm. [edit] Third listen: nope this is great. Ultra simple, ultra effective. Looking forward to the whole thing.

My band Noosefiller is proud to finally release our third album, technical and progressive black metal for fans of Thantifaxath and Gorguts

Stripped back doom / sludge. Heavy, bleak and really good. I really like this one for some reason.




Fuzzy-wuzzy female led doom.




The release date of this EP has to be the most confusing in history. I posted a record with this artwork back in 2015 I think, which was a demo, and again at some point, possibly last year. And here it is now supposedly the full thing. It's good anyway, even if this is the third time I've posted it.




More doom of some kind, also with female vocals. Nice.




Possibly posted elsewhere, found it in my Firefox pocket. Sounds like world class blackened death.




More from the pocket storage thing. Dissonant black / death. Again, sounds great.




New Bosse De Nage track up.

New stuff on Pelagic records featuring Intronaut members.

Yes, another Owl record this year this one is more doomy, and weird.




Great sounding melodic black. Not a million miles away from Windir.




Also, I don't want to forget about this. From Skaphe's H.V Lyngdal. Sounds like it'll be the death metal version of Skaphe.

Written by Mercurial on 19.07.2018 at 23:03

From Skaphe's H.V Lyngdal.

You mean the Wormlust guy He only did the artworks for Skáphe.

Written by Paz on 20.07.2018 at 14:56

You mean the Wormlust guy He only did the artworks for Skáphe.

Lol, whoops



This is out in full now. I think it's going to take a couple of listens to figure out whether or not I enjoy it, but they definitely have found a unique style of playing here. Somewhat deconstructive black / death metal with maybe a shade or two of Triptykon. It's definitely well done.

Written by Mercurial on 19.07.2018 at 23:03

From Skaphe's H.V Lyngdal. Sounds like it'll be the death metal version of Skaphe.

Sounds like Skaphe quite a lot, in my ears it sounds death/black. If the whole thing is like that it will be amazing.

Written by [user id=173045] on 20.07.2018 at 19:23

Sounds like Skaphe quite a lot, in my ears it sounds death/black. If the whole thing is like that it will be amazing.

Yeah it's gonna be good one I reckon.

I'm actually doing a split with Gallow's Forest. Pretty cool album.

I can't wait to hear the excuse the metal archives come up with for rejecting the new Noosefiller

Written by 3rdWorld on 13.07.2018 at 17:53

Portal-ian blackened death metal from US.

Infernal Coil

Its a great song, not that much Portal in my ears. Profound lore has had a bad year but this one could be good. Billy andersson is doing engineering.

Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence

Probably the best black metal I have heard from this year thus far. Nothing innovative, but it is really solid with good production.

New Ennui track streaming. Haven't checked out their earlier albums but this sounds like great funeral doom.



The latest Void Eater ep sounds as insane as it should and more than makes up for the lack of new Obliteration material.

Absolutey sickening death metal here. They got nasty down to an art.




ColdWorld have been busy. First they released a dark ambient EP.




And they also released a tribute to classic sounding black metal.




Really great sounding and written black metal. Not avant-garde or anything, but it definitely sounds unique despite the classic approach.




The Japanese Aborted? [EDIT] probably not Japanese. Can't find out where they're from.




This is very cool. You get prog black bands, but you don't get many prog bands that make use of black metal elements whilst maintain the prog core. This band does that.




Progressive death metal that sounds like it was made in the late 90s. I really wish the vocals weren't so foregrounded in the mix, as the songwriting and sound is classic retro prog death.




Pretty fun, craft-beer themed classic hardcore. I love that they have a song called 'Wolves In The Taproom'.

Some really solid Brazilian death metal.

This is the kind of new music that makes days.

Reeeally digging the sound of this. Some kind of ambient, maybe even oddly symphonic, blackened funeral doom. The whole thing is just a really eerie, alien landscape of sound wih great use of effects and instruments. Not abrasive at all, but definitley weird.

Written by [user id=173045] on 22.06.2018 at 23:20

RIPIS - I like this and I am pretty sure that this will be liked by the semi big mass that isnt the biggest mass, but they dont read this thread so they probably catch up a couple of releases further down the line. Its standard doom with cleans, sounds a bit gaze at times but its great. And artwork is?

Yeah great stuff this, spinning it right now. And indeed artwork is really atmospheric.

Psychedelic, cosmic death metal. Rather well done example of a rare genre mix.




Highly varied avant-garde black / hardcore. Not sure I like it personally but I can see others doing so.




Technical thrash with Orwellian and Huxleyan themes. Vocals again take this down a notch, which is par for the course with thrash, but musically quite good.




This sounds really interesting. Couldn't put a genre to it, some kind of terror-inducing, atmospheric technical death / black metal. Song can only be listened to from the No Clean Singing page it seems..




Full stream of Decline of the I's new album. I recall them being a pretty good post-black band when I recced them here a while ago.

New AFoS, chaps.

^Yay. More black metal and less prog. I hope it's all like that

Goddamit, I hate it when I use ^ instead of quoting and it goes to the next page

Experimental blackened ambiented doom:

Nagaarum - Apples