One of the black metal underground's best-kept secrets, HULDER formed in 2018 as the sole work of the selfsame Hulder. A native of Belgium but currently residing in the United States, she quickly went to work on HULDER's first demo, Ascending the Raven Stone, released during the summer of 2018. Ancient and regressive but with no shortage of technicality, Ascending the Raven Stone set forth a rigorous discipline that Hulder would expound upon with the more dungeoned Rehearsal 8/13/18.
For a decade now, Finland's WHITE DEATH have built a small-yet-formidable canon of work that's come to define modern underground black metal in their nation. It's no secret that Finland has possessed one of the most potent black metal scenes from the early '90s onward, and with each new generation that picks up the torch, some are contenders and others are just content to uphold "the Finnish sound."
Mit „Sankareiden Maa“ feiert das mittlerweile nach Finnland übersiedelte Projekt des Linzers Hugin das 25-jährige Jubiläum und legt dafür nun ein volles Album vor. Feinster Pagan Black Metal.