Icelanding Black Metal act Vafurlogi, featuring members of Svartidauði and Helfró, are scheduled to release their debut studio album, titled “Í Vökulli Áþján”, in September of this year through Norma Evangelium Diaboli, in collaboration with Oration Records. For now, one of the tracks from the album, "Helgrindur", is currently available for listening, check it out:



The label commented:

Vafurlogi is rooted both spiritually and literally in the early 2000s black metal movement, as the earliest songs were written nearly twenty years ago. ...

Romanian Black Metal occultists Siculicidium have just put out not one, but two brand new albums, titled "Az Elidegenedés Melankóliája" and "A Halál Tengely", both on the 28th of June via Sun & Moon Records. The albums mark the band's fourth and fifth albums overall, with the former being the more experimental in nature of the two, while the latter offering a more traditional Black Metal approach.

Check them out below:





More info here: https://www.sunandmoonrecords.com/releases

French Post-Black Metal veterans Alcest have just released a brand new album, titled "Les Chants de l'Aurore", on the 21st of June via label Nuclear Blast, who have just made the album's third track, "Améthyste", available for listening;



More info here: https://alcest.bfan.link/leschantsdelaurore.ypo

Portland-based Black Metal newcomers Herculean Death have just released their debut studio album, titled "Glory of Death's Triumph". The entire album is now available for listening via the Dark Adversary Productions channel:



More info here: https://darkadversary.bigcartel.com/product/herculean-death-glory-of-death-s-triumph-cd

Austrian Black Metal act Aussichtslos have just released a brand new album, titled "Schicksalstotschlag", via label Purity Through Fire, with one of the songs is now available for streaming:



More info here: https://shop.purity-through-fire.com/en/

Norwegian Black Metal veterans Koldbrann are due to put out a brand new album on the 23rd of August, titled "Ingen Sk​å​nsel", via Dark Essence Records. The album's first single, "I Unaturens Vold", is now available for listening in music video form:



More info here: https://orcd.co/ingen-skaansel

Canadian Black Metal Vikings SIG:AR:TYR have recently released what marks their fifth studio album, titled "Citadel of Stars". The album was released via Hammerheart Records on the 31st of May, and is now available for listening in full:



More info here: https://sigartyr.lnk.to/citadelofstars

Finnish Black Metal veterans True Black Dawn have just put out a music video for one of the songs of their upcoming album, "Of Thick-circling Shadows", which is due for release on the 30th of July via W.T.C. Productions. The song is titled "Algol", check it out:



Stay tuned for more info.

Atlanta-based Black Metal veterans Vimur are getting ready to unleash what will be their fourth studio album, titled "The Timeless Everpresent", due for release on the 5th of July via Avantgarde Music. Meanwhile, the album's first single, "Sons of Another Light", is now available for streaming:



The label commented on the band's origins:

Deep within the Hyperborean mists there lies a pale blue light. It is the light of a flame whose embers have been smoldering long and low, awaiting the day when it will engulf the sky in brilliant and terrible cerulean Aurora. That day has come. Formed in ...

Greek Black Metal act Ophidian is due to release their debut studio album, titled "Descent Into The Labyrinth", via Iron Bonehead Productions later this year. Meanwhile, the album's title track is now available for listening:



The label commented:

OPHIDIAN meaning “serpentine, or serpent like” is a one-man black metal project located in Attica/Hellas. Created by ION ARIIFATOS.

Inspired by the glorious hellenic 90’s era, OPHIDIAN explores the corridors that have opened up only to whomever has been initiated in the emotions, thoughts, philosophies and cults that are touched on this ...