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Dimmu Borgir — As Seen in the Unseen (Official Video)
Eight years of silence, then Grand Serpent Rising: an hour of symphonic black metal recorded with Fredrik Nordström, with Norwegian-language songs for the first time since Stormblåst MMV. The empire files its comeback. This video is the proof of life.
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DEEP DIVE Svalbard. Britain's best post-hardcore band left in silence
Svalbard was a British post-hardcore band from Bristol, formed in 2011 by Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan. On 19 August 2026 they played their final show ever at ArcTanGent and quietly ceased to exist. Four flawless albums in fifteen years, and their exit made less noise than a KISS tour announcement. That silence says everything about how we treat our best bands.
13 Sept 2026
DEEP DIVE Tygers of Pan Tang. Heavier in 2026 than in 1980
Tygers of Pan Tang are one of the founding NWOBHM bands, formed in Whitley Bay in 1978. Their new album Electrifyed, out 11 September on Mighty Music, was written to one mantra: the heavier, the better. Forty-six years after Wild Cat, that is a promise most veteran bands make. This one keeps it. And it puts the Tygers at the front of a small club of NWOBHM lifers, alongside Raven and Diamond Head, that chose grinding over the reunion circuit.
13 Sept 2026
DEEP DIVE Symphonic metal's second wave. The sound Europe won't let die
This site covers black, doom and death until the walls shake, and I have quietly ignored the biggest melodic story on the continent. Time to fix that: Beyond the Black opened 2026 with Break the Silence, Kamelot closed the summer with Dark Asylum, and the symphonic sound Europe built in the late nineties refuses to age out.
30 Aug 2026
DEEP DIVE Green Lung. Why Britain keeps building Hammer-Horror riff bands
Necropolitan, out 11 September on Nuclear Blast, is Green Lung's love letter to occult London, produced by Tom Dalgety of Ghost fame. It is also the perfect map of a very British tradition: from Sabbath through Witchfinder General, Cathedral, Electric Wizard and Uncle Acid, the UK keeps producing bands that sound like Hammer horror films. There is a reason.
16 Aug 2026
OPINION A man died in Plovdiv. The tabloids blamed the t-shirts
Five teenagers stand charged with beating a man to death in Bulgaria. Four wore metal shirts to their hearing, and a tabloid headline did the rest: 'Satanic black metal brings together teenage killers.' Investigators have established no link to music at all. We watched this exact film in 1985. It was wrong then too.
16 Aug 2026
DEEP DIVE Angel Witch. The NWOBHM founder history keeps forgetting
Angel Witch stood on the same London stages as Iron Maiden and Saxon at the birth of NWOBHM, and their 1980 debut is one of the genre's true classics. Then EMI dropped them after one week at number 75, and the shadow never lifted. And if you widen the lens: France, Germany and Italy had the same wave, without even getting a name for it.
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