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“On Death and Cosmos” is the title chosen by avantgarde metal band Ephel Duath for their upcoming EP being released through Agonia Records. Release dates have been set as June 21 in Europe and August 14th in the United States. Cover artwork of the new EP was created by visionary French artist Dehn Sora. “On Death and Cosmos” is a 20 minute mini concept EP that develops through three songs: “Black Prism“, “Raqia Read more…

Expect the unexpected… ATMF is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Bauda entitled “Euphoria …Of Flesh, Men and the Great Escape”. The album is to released via “A Sad Sadness Song” in May/June 2012. Chile is offering us the very promising act Bauda, hailing from Santiago. This is the second album of the band after 2009′s “Oniirica“. The concept of “Euphoria …Of Flesh, men and The Great Escape” evokes a particular place in Read more…

A collection of classic psychedelic classics reworked by Ulver, will be available from May 28th 2012. “Childhood’s End” is now available to pre-order on CD or double vinyl from the Kscope store. A CD and vinyl bundle is also available. Early pioneers of Norwegian black metal, Ulver have continually evolved throughout their career and now stand as living legends of the dark music industry, blending rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions along with noise and experimental music to Read more…

Swedish epic Viking doom metallers Ereb Altor will release their 3rd full-length album on June 29th via Napalm Records. Their new work will be entitled “Gastrike” and it is much more brutal and aggressive than its highly acclaimed predecessor “The End“. Their epic hymns have been enriched with a good portion of black metal elements, comprising of furious blast beats, thundering double-bass and aggressive vocal parts. However, the Swedes have not forgotten their traditional elements. Hypnotic Read more…

The Swedish folk metal band Vintersong is ready to present its 8th full length album entitled “Orkan“. Mastermind and visionary Andreas Hedlund alias Vintersorg has been playing an important role in the music scene since the early 90′s. “Orkan” combines the best of two worlds. Namely, his folk tinged roots and the progressive songwriting of his latest works. The new opus is a highly interesting album, comprised of all periods of the Swedes creative musical life, thus Read more…

German thrash metal hero, Tankard, has revealed the album cover for its upcoming Nuclear Blast debut, “A Girl Called Cerveza“. Patrick Strogulski, who is a student of former Tankard cover artist, Sebastian Krüger, brought the artwork to life. “A Girl Called Cerveza” will be released on July 31st in North America, and is currently being produced at the famous Studio 23 in Frankfurt, Germany with renowned producer, Michael Mainx (BÖHSE ONKELZ, DER W, DISBELIEF, D-A-D).

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DIES ATER are now unveiling the cover artwork for their much anticipated new studio album “Hunger for Life” set to be released in Summer 2012 via Obscure Abhorrence Prod. This will be the 5th full-length album for the German black metallers 5 years after their previous work “Odium’s Spring“. There will be 9 tracks, 2 of them with German lyrics and a very unique, hypnotic instrumental song. Furthermore the band announces the participation of 2 well Read more…