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Death SS — Love Until Death (Official Video)
The band that invented occult metal theatrics in 1977, doing a gothic ballad about Dr. Jekyll's doomed love, produced by the man behind Ghost's Impera. Steve Sylvester is in his fifth decade of horror metal and still writing concept albums. Respect the elder.
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DEEP DIVE Angel Witch. The NWOBHM founder history keeps forgetting
Angel Witch stood on the same London stages as Iron Maiden and Saxon at the birth of NWOBHM, and their 1980 debut is one of the genre's true classics. Then EMI dropped them after one week at number 75, and the shadow never lifted. And if you widen the lens: France, Germany and Italy had the same wave, without even getting a name for it.
26 Jul 2026
OPINION Moonspell called it their new Irreligious. The scoreboard disagrees
Blabbermouth gave Far From God a 90 and called it one of Moonspell's most significant statements. The listeners on Album of the Year settled on 62. That gap is not about the music. It is about a band grading its own homework against its masterpiece.
26 Jul 2026
DEEP DIVE Dark Funeral. A live album instead of new riffs, and rightly so
A Beast To Praise (Live in Stockholm) lands 21 August on Century Media, and half the fanbase already calls it a cash grab. They are missing the date on the recording: 16 April 2022, Dark Funeral's first show back after the pandemic, in their own city. That is not filler. That is a document.
26 Jul 2026
DEEP DIVE Fluisteraars. Black metal that sounds like Gelderland
Fluisteraars is a Dutch atmospheric black metal duo from Bennekom, Gelderland, active since 2009. Their sixth album Jacht der Mysteriën arrives 11 September on Eisenwald: three long compositions, recorded live in one take, then reamped through the hollow cylinder of an abandoned water tower. We have cited this band as lineage for months. Time they got their own piece.
26 Jul 2026
DEEP DIVE Paradise Lost. The album where gothic metal grew up
Draconian Times, released 12 June 1995, is the fifth album by British gothic metal band Paradise Lost and the moment the genre they helped name reached its polished peak. UK #16, Germany #15, and thirty-one years later still the reference point. A deep dive into why.
26 Jul 2026
DEEP DIVE Ponte Del Diavolo. Two bassists, one poison garden
Ponte Del Diavolo is an Italian band from Turin that calls its sound blackened post punk: doom, black metal and wave under female vocals, driven by two bass players. Every member is named after a poisonous plant. Their second album De Venom Natura turns that poison into a concept.
19 Jul 2026
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