The New Music Thread : The North Edition
Blut aus Nord - "Hallucinogen" (Release date: 11th October)
The new full-length from these French black metal heavy-weights. I can already hear Ben drooling.
Cannot wait for this one! And that cover!!!!!
Winterfylleth - "The Siege of Mercia : Live at Bloodstock 2017" (Release date: 13th September)
Abigail Williams - "Walk Beyond The Dark" (Release date: 15th November)
The fifth album from this Washington-based atmospheric black metal outfit.
Alcest - "Spiritual Instinct" (Release date: 25th October)
The sixth album from this French blackgaze outfit.
Oranssi Pazuzu - "Live At Roadburn 2017" (Release date: 4th October)
1349 - "The Infernal Pathway" (Release date: 18th October)
The seventh album from these Norwegian black metallers.
Mayhem - "Daemon" (Release date: 25th October)
The sixth full-length from the Norwegian black metal Gods.
Bölzer - "Lese Majesty" E.P. (Release date: 15th November)
The new E.P. from this Swiss outfit whose sound sits somewhere between black & death metal.
Abigail Williams - "Walk Beyond The Dark" (Release date: 15th November)
The fifth album from this atmospheric black metal outfit from Phoenix, Arizona.
Vengeful Spectre - 殞煞 (Vengeful Spectre) Released January 15th 2020
Melodic Black Metal from Guangdong Province that incorporates chinese folk music to truly devastating effect.
If you want something new in folk-influenced black metal then I strongly urge you to give this a listen - I mean just look at that cover, epic!
Agvirre - Silence EP released 24/01/20 on Trepanation Recordings.
Atmospheric Black Metal incorporating strings, electronics and plenty of post-metal stylings for an interesting new release.
Obsidian Tongue: Volume III on Bindrune releasaed 31/01/20.
Epic and atmospheric black metal from a severely underrated US duo.
Preview track Return to the Fields of Violet:
Sojourner have released a new single and have a new album slated for May 8th.
Calming and symphonic Atmospheric Black Metal that I was a big fan of back in 2018 with their album The Shadowed Road.
Yeah, Xephyr. I'm a big fan of Sojourner and am definitely looking forward to this one. Have both their others on CD. Will check out the preview later...
...preview track The Deluge is epic. Atmospheric black metal with folk metal stylings. A bit heavier than their previous releases.
Manchester's masters of atmo-black return with a new album in May. Preview is the title track The Reckoning Dawn and will be instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with the band's black metal renderings of English folk history.
Wanderers: Astrology of the NIne (March 13, 2020)
This collaboration between Mare Cognitum and Spectral Lore has already started making its rounds on other sites, so I'll continue the trend. Although it clocks in at a whopping 2 hours and drags a bit too much in a few places, I think this is a new pinnacle of Atmospheric Black Metal in spaaaaace (or whatever you want to call this subgenre). Spectral Lore's offerings are dissonant and chaotic while Mare Cognitum focuses more on the riffs and heaviness of this project, finally concluding with a 24-minute full collaboration complete with a full atmospheric excursion into a suitable grand finale. I'm normally on the fence about this spacey kind of Black Metal but Wanderers has made me change my mind this time.
The new single from German atmospheric black metal outfit ColdWorld.
The new album from Finnish psychedelic black metallers Oranssi Pazuzu entitled "Mestarin kynsi" which is being released tomorrow.
The new album from Swedish atmospheric black metal outfit Lustre which is due to be released on 24th April entitled "The Ashes Of Light".
The new album from German gothic black metallers Secrets Of The Moon entitled "Black House" which is due for release on 8th May.
The new album from Italian melodic black 'n' rollers Forgotten Tomb entitled "Nihilistic Estrangement" which is due to be released on 8th May.