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Old But Gold: Ellfor – Malkhedant

English: Some albums simply refuse to fade into obscurity, no matter how many years pass. Malkhedant, the 2016 full-length from Spanish atmospheric

English: Romania has been delivering some excellent death metal lately. Earlier this year I reviewed Malignant Providence and was impressed by the

English: There are bands that wear their influences on their sleeve, and there are bands that stitch those influences directly into their

Posted on 11 June 2026 / by D.L.B. /

English: With Merg & Been, we mostly write about new releases. As a dear friend of the founder of this platform, I

English: It is not until this very moment I ever heard from Montreal based Burning the forgotten. They had a debut, called

ENGLISH: USBM strikes again, Enthroning Nightfall hits us with their first EP The infernal masquerade. Making great black metal is not exclusive

Fossilization is a band I hold in very high regard. After their first EP from 2021, He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten,

ENGLISH: From the depths of the Brazilian underground rises Fossilization once more with their second full length: Advent of Wounds. The duo

The Netherlands is home to many great labels for extreme music. Heidens Hart, New Era Productions, Zwaertgevegt, to name a few. One

There is a certain kind of black metal that does not immediately overwhelm with speed or volume, but instead creeps in slowly,