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Canadian viking folk metal band Valfreya have announced that they have inked a worldwide deal with Maple Metal Records of Toronto. Valfreya’s debut album “Path to Eternity” will have it’s official release in late May of this year, with the exact release date yet to be confirmed. Formed in February of 2009, Valfreya is a six-member band from Montreal. The band’s front-woman Crook, has a vocal range of symphonic clean vocals to that of guttural growls, and she Read more…

The Australian melodic doom/death metal recording project Subterranean Disposition has agreed to a deal with the Canadian underground label Hypnotic Dirge Records known for acts such as netra, Ekove Efrits, The Foetal Mind, and Exiled From Light among others to release the upcoming self-titled debut album in late summer 2012. Subterranean Disposition is a one man project headed by veteran musician Terry Vainoras, known for being involved in numerous projects within the Australian metal scene over the years such as Read more…

The upcoming Diablo Swing Orchestra album “Pandora’s Piñata” will be released May 22nd on Candlelight Records (UK/EU) and The Laser’s Edge/Sensory Records (USA/Can). This is the third full-length from this Swedish avantgarde operatic swing metal band or “riot opera” or “Soprano swing with a heavy twist” as they prefer to call their music. They have already released the video single “Voodoo Mon Amour” from the upcoming album that you can check below.

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CARACH ANGREN have named their forthcoming album “Where The Corpses Sink Forever“, which will be released by Season of Mist. Here are the cover artwork and tracklisting of the Dutch symphonic act’s third album, slated for a May 18th 2012 release (North America Tue, Jun 05 2012). “Where The Corpses Sink Forever” is available for pre-order on Season of Mist’s e-shop as CD digipak limited to first pressing and LP + digital download card.

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Svyatogor represent for sure an unusual black metal outfit from Ukraine with their incredible mixing of death black metal and progressive avantgardish arrangements. With “Doctor Veritas”, their third album, Svyatogor release a magnificent and unique black metal with great vocal parts and melodic fragments, where the parts of the solo guitar cast the atmosphere of classical heavy metal and the saxophone gives the music jazz and art-rock tendencies – but still having a solid and raw Black Metal Read more…

Pagan black metallers Hel from Germany announce the release of their fourth full-length album “Das Atmen der Erde” – (The Breathing of the Earth) 5 years after the acoustic “Tristheim“. This time the band goes without a label and will promote their album on their own. It will be in digipak format with a 20-page booklet. Release date is set to the 7th or April. You can visit the band’s webpage for more details, or visit Read more…

The works on the long awaited debut album of Din Brad, the folk project of Negura Bunget’s Negru, have been finished! The album will be entitled “Dor” and is set for worldwide release in April 2012 by Prophecy Productions. The exact dates:

Germany/Austria: April 20, 2012
Europe: April 23, 2012
North America: June 5, 2012
Everywhere else: April 23, 2012

“Dor” is composed out of two distinct elements: On one side there are authentic Romanian traditional Read more…