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Review: Man of Stated Age by Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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"It takes the grand, exotic scope of classic rock titans and drags it screaming into the heavy underground, delivering a truly colossal and unforgettable sound."
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While preparing myself for the inevitable onslaught of existential dread and professional misery this morning—Dad duties, festival work, novel edits, articles for that other site, and a highly classif...

Review: Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright by Buzzard

November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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"Everything is Not Going to Be Alright is the bleakest, boldest, and most brutally beautiful work of his career — a Doom Folk sermon for the end times."
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Since I started Black Metal Archives about a year ago, I’ve been singing the praises of Christopher Thomas Elliott—the man behind Buzzard and Satiricus Doomicus Americus—to anyone who’ll bloody listen...

Review: Tulesta syntynyt by Valontuoja

November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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"Tulesta syntynyt is an unending avalanche of suffocating Finnish Black Metal. Relentless, raw cosmic terror delivered with zero mercy."
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To listen to Tulesta syntynyt by the Finnish one-man outfit Valontuoja is to surrender your senses to a cataclysmic, elemental force. This is not mere music; it is an experience of utter, existential...

Paganzier Announces New Album: As Mankind Rots

November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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Swedish Death Metal outfit Paganzier have announced a new album, As Mankind Rots, by releasing a video for the title track.
Read all about it and watch the video on the Black Metal Archives.
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Swedish Death Metal outfit Paganzier (featuring Rogga Johansson in his continuing quest to make every Death Metal record, ever) have announced a new album, As Mankind Rots, by releasing a video for th...

November 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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No Surrender: Support the festival, read the article, donate.
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Bardo Thodol To Release Debut Album: Sumerian Tragedy

November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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Italian Horror/Heavy Metal trio Bardo Thodol are set to release their debut album, Sumerian Tragedy, on November 28th.
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Italian Horror/Heavy Metal trio Bardo Thodol are set to release their debut album, Sumerian Tragedy, on November 28th via Obelisk Polaris Productions. You can watch the lyric video for the track Sumer...

Temptress Release New Single/Video: These Walls

November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM

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Texan Heavy Metal trio Temptress have released a new single/video for the track These Walls, taken from their second album Hear.
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Texan Heavy Metal trio Temptress have released a new single/video for the track These Walls, taken from their second album hear, due out January 23rd via Blues Funeral Recordings. You can watch the vi...

Future Static Release New Single/Video: There’s Nowhere Else To Go

November 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM

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Australian Metalcore outfit Future Static have released a brand new single/video There's Nowhere Else To Go, available now via Wild Thing Records.
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Australian Metalcore outfit Future Static have released a brand new single/video There's Nowhere Else To Go, available now via Wild Thing Records. You can watch the video for There's Nowhere Else To G...

Architectural Genocide Announce Forthcoming Album Malignant Cognition, With Vicious New Single/Video For Malicious Wager

November 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Brutal Death Metal outfit Architectural Genocide have announced their forthcoming album Malignant Cognition.
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Brutal Death Metal outfit Architectural Genocide have announced their forthcoming album Malignant Cognition - due out January 16th via Comatose Music - with a vicious new single/video for the track Ma...

Review: Unending Rotten Cycle by Putrevore

November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM

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"Unending Rotten Cycle is unholy perfection: heavy as sin, rancid as a corpse, and executed with a precision that only the truly damned could muster."
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If Unending Rotten Cycle by Putrevore isn’t the sound of the dead clawing their way out of their graves to form a Death Metal band, then I don’t know what the fuck is. This record is everything its t...

BAND REVEAL #3 — BEYOND THE PALE (NL)

November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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BAND REVEAL #3 — BEYOND THE PALE (NL)

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BAND REVEAL #5 — SPLENDIDULA (BELGIUM)

November 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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BAND REVEAL #5 — SPLENDIDULA (BELGIUM)
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In Mourning Drop Haunting New Video: Moonless Sky

November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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In Mourning have dropped a haunting new video for the track Moonless Sky, taken from their latest album, The Immortal.
Read all about it and watch the video on the Black Metal Archives.
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Swedish Melodic Death Metal act In Mourning have dropped a haunting new video for the track Moonless Sky, taken from their latest album The Immortal - an album so good that it broke my old ratings sys...

CELTIC FROST - A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

November 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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It's Saturday. I'm taking the night off. I may or may not be drinking. Welcome to the Black Metal Archives: This Shit Hits Different
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November 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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BAND REVEAL #1 — THE LUCIDIA PROJECT. Support the festival, donate on Ko-Fi.
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BAND REVEAL #1 — THE LUCIDIA PROJECT

Nornes Release Debut Single: Oneness

November 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Nornes have released their debut single Oneness, taken from their highly anticipated forthcoming album Thou Hast Done Nothing.
Read all about it and watch the video on the Black Metal Archives.
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French Doom Metal collective Nornes have released their debut single Oneness, taken from their highly anticipated forthcoming album Thou Hast Done Nothing, due out November 28th via Sleeping Church Re...

Review: Fear of the Unknown by Here and Beyond

November 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM

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"Here and Beyond have crafted a record that sounds like the end of the universe, and it’s fucking glorious."
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It is, as I sit writing this, not even 4 a.m. I’ve been awake for a couple of hours — I’ll sleep when I’m dead — and while it’s far, far earlier than I’d normally sit down to start hammering…

Vein Announce New Album: Reveal

October 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM

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Colombian Death Metal unit Vein have announced their new album Reveal will be out on November 14th via HateWorks.
Read all about it and watch the video for Redemption on the Black Metal Archives.
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Colombian Death Metal unit Vein have announced their new album Reveal will be out on November 14th via HateWorks. They released a video for the track Redemption which you can watch here: https://youtu...