Opening the door to a twisted, phantomly world, each one of these 9 hymns takes us through an inner voyage between raged and rampant guitar lines, that struck you with the intensity of a lightning, and mid-paced sections of introspective melodies. A dense sound production that drags the listener to

The Belgian band Matavitatau blends a long-fostered love for 1990s-style Norwegian black metal with a deep passion for classical literature. They forge their lyrics exclusively in Latin, sourcing them from Roman poets from classical, medieval and renaissance times. Their overarching concept focuses on human mortality, the inevitability of decay, and

Portugal’s raw black metal underground, particularly orbiting around its Black Circle, has quietly become one of the most potent international scenes for unapologetic black metal purism. Of its denizens, Mons Veneris is arguably the darkest, most mystery-draped exemplar of this sound: incredibly lo-fi and raw in a most otherworldly way.

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Basque Black Metal, released by Altare.