Opeth Booked For Inferno Metal Festival 2019


Progressive metal giants Opeth have booked a special appearance at Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, NO in 2019. The festival recently announced such esteemed extreme metal bands as Dimmu Borgir, The Black Dahlia Murder, Taake, 1349 and many more. More bands will be announced soon. Check out the full line-up so far below. Opeth will release Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on November 2nd via Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. This historic event was captured for the DVD, Blu-Ray and Vinyl formats during their performance May 11th, 2017 at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, CO. Both the DVD and Blu-ray formats include CDs containing the audio as well.

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The Black Dahlia Murder, Inculter And Caronte Booked For Inferno 2019


Europe’s longest running and best black and death metal festival, Inferno 2019, has booked three more impressive bands for next spring. The Black Dahlia Murder, Inculter, and Caronte have been added to the killer lineup that already includes Dimmu Borgir, Taake, 1349, Vomitory, Gaahls Wyrd, Carach Angren, Batushka, Tribulation, and many more.Continue reading


GHOST CULT ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2017: Part 1 (50 – 26)


As the dust begins to settle on what will undoubtedly go down in a history as a fine year for heavy and progressive music, the Ghost Cult crew present our favourite albums of 2017. While a year with only a couple of genuine life-changing, genre redefiners, nevertheless 2017 has seen an absolute plethora of very, very high quality releases. With over 400 albums reviewed this year, at an average of 7.5/10, there was a deep pool of quality releases selected and dissected throughout the year. A genuinely democratic inner sanctum here, we now present Part 1 of an official Ghost Cult Album of the Year (2017) run down that s truly representative of Ghost Cult, our writers, and our musical position as a site. Please share your thoughts and comments on the music we collectively love, as we countdown from 50 through to 26…Continue reading


Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2016 – Part II


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Starting even earlier today, we managed to be just in time to catch Der Weg Einer Freiheit. The German atmospheric black metal trio might be one of the biggest surprises of the entire festival. From their small, fragile dreamscapes to the frenzied, loud black metal riffing, their show journeyed the entire spectrum and made it beautiful. The compositions were so convincing that the lacking bass player was hardly noticeable. A very, very good show to start off the day.Continue reading


Album Stream: A Secret Revealed – The Bleakness


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German post metallers A Secret Revealed is streaming their debut album The Bleakness, out now via Bastardized Recordings in its entirety below. The Bleakness was recorded and produced Tonstudio Würzburg in collaboration with Nikita Kamprad (Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Hackneyed). Julian Langguth of BlackLeafDesigns is responsible for the quality artwork. Kamprad (Der Weg Einer Freiheit) and David Schneiker contribute guest vocals. Stream the music video for “Avoid the Light” and studio impressions video for “To Have a Dream is to be Cursed” below.

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A Secret Revealed The Bleakness
01: Until Grief Disappears
02: The Veil
03: Avoid the Light
04: Below the Weight of a Mountain
05: To Have a Dream is to be Cursed
06: Drowning
07: Shards
08: The Abyss
09: Lay my Memories to Rest
10: The Longest Days

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Graspop Metal Meeting 2015 Adds More Acts


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Graspop Metal Meeting 2015 have added Airbourne, A Day To Remember, Asking Alexandra, COUNTERPARTS, Der Weg einer Freiheit, FM, Hollywood Undead, Life of Agony, Marduk, Morgoth and Vallenfyre to their ever growing list of participants to their lineup. The event is held in Dessel, Belgium on June 19, 20 and 21, 2015