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DARKTHRONE TO RELEASE ETERNAL HAILS ON JUNE 25TH

As John Peel once said of The Fall, “Always different, always the same,” so too one could say the same of DARKTHRONE. Things change, times change, people change, and yet even when sounding fresh and new and delivering just five tracks in 45 minutes on their 19th album, Eternal Hails, the Norwegian black metal legends remain defiantly and eternally DARKTHRONE. Since forming in 1986 as Black Death in Kolboton, Norway, DARKTHRONE have been masters of their art. Dropping the death metal of 1991’s Soulside Journey debut album in favour of a more primitive, black metal sound on the following year’s […]

HELLRIPPER REVEAL DETAILS OF THEIR NEW STUDIO ALBUM, THE AFFAIR OF THE POISONS

Having recently announced their signing to Peaceville Records, HELLRIPPER have revealed details and the cover artwork of their upcoming new studio album The Affair Of The Poisons scheduled for release on 9th October 2020. HELLRIPPER, aka James McBain, based in the Scottish Highlands, says of their forthcoming epic “The Affair Of The Poisons contains the mixture of thrash/black/speed metal and punk that HELLRIPPER has become known for, but this time I feel that the end result is more cohesive. Some of the tracks are more straight-forward while others contain some twists and parts that are new to the HELLRIPPER sound. […]

DARKTHRONE RELEASE NEW TRACK ‘THE HARDSHIP OF THE SCOTS’

Listen to DARKTHRONE’s new track ‘ The Hardship Of The Scots’ HERE FENRIZ introduces the track “There really isn’t just ONE song that can represent this album, ‘The Hardship Of The Scots’ was my song and although we also wanted one of Ted’s songs to preview the album Ted took one for the team and we chose my song! His songs are somewhat faster with more black metal in them but still has slow thrash and doom, my song here seems to start with an Invasion Of Your Privacy RATT-era riff or perhaps one from The Ultimate Sin by OZZY […]