Ukrainian pagan black metallers Гетьман (Hetman) will release their second album “Матiр” via Sublimity Records. The exact date isn’t announced yet, but it will be out the later on February 2014, limited to 125 copies only. “Матiр” is dedicated to the most valuable thing in everyone’s life – his mother. The album consists of eight songs, with big contrasts between them, both in music and in poetic terms. Six of these songs are based on poems of famous Ukrainian writers, whose contribution to Ukrainian literature and culture can not be overstated. It is a musically rich album with “difficult” compositions, that will be appreciated by fans of various styles of “heavy metal”. Total play time is almost one hour and Гетьман have revealed the album tracklist and cover artwork.

Tracklist:
1. Ти – Українець
2. Навпроти Тьми, Неволі, Горя…                            Read more →

Belarusian atmospheric pagan black metal band Vietah from Gomel has announced the release of its 3rd full-length album “Tajemstvy Noczy / Sacraments of Night”. The album left the studio at the Winter of 2012 – 2013, but it will be officially released in the beginning of 2014 via the Russian label Stygian Crypt Productions. “Tajemstvy Noczy” is a forest autumnal night in a musical embodiment through atmospheric black metal prism in a context of Vietah. It has duration of more than 40 minutes, broken off on four pieces placed in four dimensions. Four alternative realities, embodied in four dark fantasies, are based upon four twilight mirrors under four manifestations. On four levels of the depth, four shades of blackness stiffened in four grins of expectation. 4 tracks of disturbing night atmosphere brought from the dense autumnal forests. Night Forest’s Sacraments happen only once and repeat never more…

Tracklist:
1. Miesjac u Voĺnym Syhodzie / Moon in Free Leaving            Read more →

A new Russian pagan folk metal band comes from the town on Irkutsk of Southern Siberia. Рогатый КолоколЪ (Horned Bell) were never heard outside the borders of the taiga biome, until the 20th of December 2013, when SoundAge Productions will release their debut album “Небыль“. Their music is brutal, wild and barbarous shredding, combined with authentic spiritual folk melodies. Their lyrics are based on traditional Slavic folklore and sad contemporary reality. It’s full of calm distinct awareness, focused at the junction of theology, blasphemy and psychedelia. Рогатый КолоколЪ have already revealed album tracklist and cover artwork.

Tracklist:
1. Отъ Греха Подальше (зачинъ)
2. Во Еловомъ Сумраке
3. Какъ Медведь Государствомъ Правилъ                 Read more →