Nether is a relatively new black metal band from Belgium, founded in 2019. They did their first album in 2020 called Between Shades and Shadows which is rather interesting. See the half-an-hour interview right here.
Ultra Silvam is a Swedish black metal band that released their 1st album roughly a year ago. That one is here in review as Rauta's vinyl Monday one: The Spearwound Salvation.
Score: 7/10
https://aenglaslakt.bandcamp.com/album/the-spearwound-salvation
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ultra_Silvam/3540424812
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Finnish black metal act Aegrus is here with a 25-minute mcd of Satanic black metal the traditional ways.
Score: 8/10
https://aegrus.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Aegrusofficial/
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Aegrus/76382
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Band: Houle
Album: Houle
Label: Les Acteurs de l'Ombre
Score: 7/10
https://houle.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HouleOfficiel/
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Band: Immortal
Album: War Against All
Label: Nuclear Blast
Score: 8/10
https://www.immortalofficial.com/
https://immortal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/immortalofficial
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Immortal/75
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Year 2020 was a wild one. It was also a good one for metal albums. Here's my 2020 candidates for the year and of these ten best ones will be listed in this video, from worst to best. You can find individual reviews on the channel (under album reviews).
Black metal:
Akolyth - Akolyth
...And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother
Armagedda - Svindeldjup ättestup
Audn - Vökudraumsins fangi
Dark Fortress - Spectres from the Old World
Front - Antichrist Militia
Förgjord - Laulu kuolemsta
Gaerea - Limbo
Gloom - Rider of the Last Light
Goats of Doom / Iku-Turso - Ikuinen kuolema
Horna - Kuoleman kirjo
Häxanu - Snare of All Salvation
Í Myrkri - Drivende i dødens æter
Katavasia - Magnus Venator
Kryptamok - Verisaarna
Kvaen - The Funeral Pyre
Mavorim / Ad Mortem
Mimorium - Blood of Qayin
Mörk Gryning - Hinsides vrede
Norrhem - Koitos
Odiosior - Odiosior
Ofermod - Pentagrammaton
Order of Orias - Ablaze
Ordinance - In Purge There Is No Remission
Prometheus - Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension
Slagmark - Purging Sacred Soils
Striges - Verum Veterum
Svarttjern - Shame Is Just a Word
Svederna - Härd
Terrestrial Hospice - Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds
Third Eye Rapists, The - Deathtrip Transcendence / Magicians of the Holocaust
Thy Dying Light - Thy Dying Light
Tulus - Old Old Death
Vampire - Rex
Varde - Fedraminne
Ventr - Numinous Negativity
Ymir - Ymir
Yoth Iria - Under His Sway
Youna - Zornvlouch
Death Metal:
Aborted - La grande mascarade
Benediction - Scriptures
Lie in Ruis - Floating in Timeless Streams
Lik - Misanthropic Breed
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
Scordatura - Mass Failure
Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos
Soulburn - Noa's D'ark
Vader - Solitude in Madness
Doom metal:
Convocation - Ashes Coalesce
My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion
Triptykon - Requiem
Thrash metal:
Body Count - Carnivore
Harlott - Detritus of the Final Age
Sodom - Genesis XIX
Testament - Titans of Creation
Other metal:
Enslaved - Utgard
One Desire - Midnight Empire
Smackbound - 20/20
Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Sorcerer - Lamenting Of The Innocent
Venomous Concept - Politics Versus the Erection
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Sad play Greek black metal, but not the Hellenic ways most people expect. Check out the band's seventh album and the review here.
1. Self Hatred
2. Enjoy Your Pettiness
3. Misty Breath of Ancient Forests (part I)
4. White Death
5. Hellish Ride
6. Misty Breath of Ancient Forests (part II)
7. Hades Gazing
https://hordeavsad.webs.com/
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sad/63316
https://youtu.be/k0tbZ1jBrPM
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Utuk-Xul is a black metal band from Colombia. We had a short and simple talk with these guys at Steelfest 2023. A bit lost in translation, but I hope you will nonethless get something out of this one. Salud!
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Utuk-Xul/20905
Interviewer: Jerry Kurunen
Video: Arto Soini Photography
Photo: Elsa Prkl
Edit: Minttu Loimu
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Welcome to the 80's! Or at least very close as Vulture is all about old-school speed/thrash metal sound and feeling. See the review here.
http://www.vulturekills.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vulturekills
https://vulturekills.bandcamp.com/
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Archgoat is here with their fifth album, Worship the Eternal Darkness. This one delivers you old-school black metal from Finland. See the review for more info.
Score: 8/10
https://archgoat666.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/archgoat.official
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Archgoat/4357
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