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Blackbraid/Winterfylleth/Noctem live at The Garage – Concert Review
BLACKBRAID/WINTERFYLLETH/NOCTEM The Garage, London. April 15th 2026. It is a random Wednesday night in Highbury, London. Arsenal are playing at home. This would make most people have second thoughts about heading out at night, going on the tube etc… However, most people are not part of a six hundred strong crowd of black metal fans,…
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AT THE GATES – “GHOST OF A FUTURE DEAD” REVIEW
I must admit that when I put myself forward to review this album as my first article for HV, I instantly had doubts. The responsibility of such a task suddenly felt enormous, and only those of us who are aware of Tomas ‘Tompa’ Lindberg’s name will understand why. This album is his final work of…
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Invunche Concert Review
The mystical and spiritual force known as Invunche are in the midst of spreading their unique and pummeling version of ancestral summoning, primitive, punk tinged black metal to the US. Technically based out of The Netherlands, the creator and inhibitor of El Invunche began his life in Chile and was uprooted at a young age to…
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2025 Favorites
13 favs plus one!
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Worm – Necropalace Review
Release Date: February 13, 2026 Label: Century Media Country: USA Genre: Black/Death/Doom Metal Moving away from the murky depths of the swamp, Worm have relocated to an ancient vampiric castle overflowing with fog. This evolution reveals a different facet of the band, albeit keeping the atmosphere that Worm has become known for. Straying somewhat further from death and…
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MØL – Dreamcrush Review
Release Date: January 30, 2026 Label: Nuclear Blast Records Country: Denmark Genre: Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze Words truly cannot do this album justice. MØL have fully mastered the language of emotion with their 3rd full-length album, Dreamcrush. As strong as their previous releases Jord (2019) and Diorama (2021) are, Dreamcrush somehow manages to surpass both in musicality…
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Mayhem – Liturgy of Death Review
Century Media, released on 6 February 2026 Two thoughts kept bouncing around my head as I listened to the new Mayhem album, Liturgy of Death; firstly, ‘no compromise’. This album makes no concessions to anyone, except the musicians themselves. That, as a result, leaves the album in danger of ‘polarising’ the fan base. It is…
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2025 favorite albums
Coffret De Bijoux – 8 EPs Alice Simard continues her fervent output in the year 2025 releasing 8 EPs of beautiful and interesting atmospheric Black Metal. Hailing from Quebec their is a tinge of the Quebecoise sound but it is mixed with new ideas to create a new and distinct sound. They infuse the suspected…