This is a collaboration between Serpent Noir and our diabolic Finnish comrades Sargeist. This split, entitled Transcendental Black Magic, has both its lyrical and musical content working as a whole to express the great Untold and the great Unseen. The Red Dragon. For this reason, I proposed to pen all the lyrics for both bands: There are seven tracks in total dealing with life changing events that occurred during the last two years on a physical, metaphysical and magical level: all emanating as different but interwoven revelations of the Dark Powers that govern the existence of a magician. This is NOT a superficial display of nonsense words put together coming from showy ‘'occult' literature, but direct experiences emerging through the life motto Visio - Vires- Actio. A motto which leads on many levels to a life out of the zone of comfort, away from the living swamps of the rotten metamodern world we live in.
Music wise, Sargeist deliver their darkest and most musical material to date without lacking in traditional black metal purity. Being myself a fan of their amazing latest full length Unbound which concludes to a unique piece of fiery Black Metal, I can only say that in this split they are taking it a step further. Utmost Black Metal darkness and top level musicianship.
Regarding Serpent Noir's material, we have put our souls in it. We hold nothing back. As always, we present again something different which, however, essentially resumes what Black Metal is about. For those that will listen carefully to this collaboration, there is a good deal of twist to discover. Posers, dis-believers, pseudo occultists and wanking philosophers FUCK OFF!
ASHTAR aus der Schweiz – Musikerin ASKAHEX teilt auf ihrem neuen Album „The Return of the Frozen Souls“ ihre Geschichten über ihre persönlichen Veränderungen und der rituelle Lust. Der Zorn der Göttin ist erwacht und die Gier nach Rache damit entfacht. Vereint in der Schönheit der Natur umringt von poetischer Dunkelheit.
French black metal pioneers SETH have once again lit the flame of the early days with ‘La Morsure du Christ', which can be seen as a sequel to their 1998 acclaimed debut ‘Les blessures de l'âme'.
Endlich, RUNENWACHT sind zurück mit einem neuem Album " Das letzte Geleit". Inhaltlich widmen sich die zehn Stücke erneut der nordischen und heidnischen Mythologie. Auch zentrale Themen der Edda – der bedeutenden Sammlung von Götter- und Heldensagen – finden ihren Platz und verleihen dem Album eine tiefere mythologische Dimension.
Polish Black Metal. With Kataxu, Gontyna Kry, Iron Tyrant members. Reissue of the debut EP from 2004 on digipack CD. 4-panel digipack CD with 12 pages booklet.
Formed in that cursed year of 2020, SCHREIGARM are a unique entry into the oft-overlooked but always-vital Teutonic black metal scene: though based in Germany, both members are actually Ukrainian. Such a mixture surely results in a sound that mixes both the austere melodicism of the nowadays Teutonic school and the stargazing mysticism endemic of the Ukrainian form throughout the years. And if 2023's The Mysteries of Fate debut was unjustly underappreciated, then SCHREIGARM's subsequent Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign should doubtlessly right this injustice.
Canadian Black Metal Chaos machine REVENGE has announced a follow-up strike for 2020 in the form of a re-issue of their ‘Attack.Blood.Revenge‘ EP with bonus tracks.With the chimes of death ringing in their 20th year in 2020, alongside the prominence that REVENGE has earned releasing multiple albums and EP‘s over the past two decades, it seems fitting to re-release the debut EP that declared to the world the band‘s intentions of being a solitary black mist of death that smothers the trends tainting the black metal underground.