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Trivan — Crowned with Dread and Power (Lyric Video)
Trivan is a black metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, and this is the first Croatian band ever featured on this site. Founder Vanja Šantak mailed the video in himself: black metal with death and traditional heavy metal in its blood, from the single released 25 September 2026, ahead of debut album Eternal Shore. The underground finding our front door is exactly why it exists.
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Witch Club Satan — Live at Sonia, Cambridge MA (2026)
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Death SS — Love Until Death (Official Video)
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Heavysaurus — Pommesgabel (Live at Summer Breeze 2025)
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King Diamond — Melissa (Live at Graspop 2016)
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Mork — Ferdamann (Official Video)
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Black Spikes — Imperatorė (Live at M.A.M.A. 2025)
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Bark — Full Show at Cinema, Aalst
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Khemmis — Khemmis (Full Album Stream)
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Draconian — In Somnolent Ruin
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Gojira at Hellfest 2019
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DEEP DIVE Eternal. Athens just produced a pure thrash debut
Eternal is a young thrash metal band from Athens, Greece. Their debut album Conspiracy of Warheads, released 2 October 2026 on Floga Records, is ten tracks of unapologetic eighties thrash with an anti-war title track. Greece exports black and death metal by the crate. A thrash debut this convincing from Athens is rare, and nobody outside Greece is talking about it.
10 Oct 2026
DEEP DIVE Enslaved. Mið and 35 years of refusing to repeat
Enslaved is a Norwegian progressive extreme metal band formed in Haugesund in 1991, when Ivar Bjørnson was thirteen. Their seventeenth album Mið arrives 30 October on Nuclear Blast: eight tracks, deliberately stripped of the sprawl, with Sámi and Native American guest voices. Three singles are out and they already tell you this one is different.
10 Oct 2026
DEEP DIVE Svalbard. Britain's best post-hardcore band left in silence
Svalbard was a British post-hardcore band from Bristol, formed in 2011 by Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan. On 19 August 2026 they played their final show ever at ArcTanGent and quietly ceased to exist. Four flawless albums in fifteen years, and their exit made less noise than a KISS tour announcement. That silence says everything about how we treat our best bands.
13 Sept 2026
DEEP DIVE Tygers of Pan Tang. Heavier in 2026 than in 1980
Tygers of Pan Tang are one of the founding NWOBHM bands, formed in Whitley Bay in 1978. Their new album Electrifyed, out 11 September on Mighty Music, was written to one mantra: the heavier, the better. Forty-six years after Wild Cat, that is a promise most veteran bands make. This one keeps it. And it puts the Tygers at the front of a small club of NWOBHM lifers, alongside Raven and Diamond Head, that chose grinding over the reunion circuit.
13 Sept 2026
DEEP DIVE Symphonic metal's second wave. The sound Europe won't let die
This site covers black, doom and death until the walls shake, and I have quietly ignored the biggest melodic story on the continent. Time to fix that: Beyond the Black opened 2026 with Break the Silence, Kamelot closed the summer with Dark Asylum, and the symphonic sound Europe built in the late nineties refuses to age out.
30 Aug 2026
DEEP DIVE Green Lung. Why Britain keeps building Hammer-Horror riff bands
Necropolitan, out 11 September on Nuclear Blast, is Green Lung's love letter to occult London, produced by Tom Dalgety of Ghost fame. It is also the perfect map of a very British tradition: from Sabbath through Witchfinder General, Cathedral, Electric Wizard and Uncle Acid, the UK keeps producing bands that sound like Hammer horror films. There is a reason.
16 Aug 2026
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