Meant to tell you guys about this one a little earlier but seeing as how Blackest Rainbow is now shipping out pre-orders with less than 15 copies left in stock I have pretty much failed all of you occult-folk fanatics (of which there are probably also less than 15). To be honest, I was not [...]

Sometimes it must seem like we just port all of our metal write-ups over from HSS, but I swear we hear about this shit on our own, occasionally. Not this time, though. Pre-orders are currently rolling for the vinyl edition of this unholy split between Goatmoon and Ride for Revenge. I’m digging the blackened sludge [...]

The second vinyl album of forward-thinking metal from the peerless Locrian. It’s hard to attach a sub-genre to these guys, they incorporate a wide range of influences into a very cohesive whole, but that whole is definitely grey, oppressive and depressing (that’s a good thing if you like this kind of music). Totally nihilistic music [...]

Double vinyl release from this black metal horde of one. The analog issue of Collapse features a bonus track with the lead singer of Amebix and retains all the raw fury, aggression and… bluegrass (?) you could possibly handle. Don’t let that last comment fool you, this album has some pretty fierce moments. But yeah, [...]

After a brief webstore snafu, No World Order Records is once again offering the vinyl pressing of the album Northern Failures from under-appreciated noise rock kingpins Cable. 10 years old and limited to 340 black vinyl copies on heavy-duty canvas covers sewn and screenprinted by hand, this sounds like a release well worth owning for [...]

We don’t usually post news just for the sake of posting news, but Grails is one of those bands that we pretty much freak out every time they even update their Myspace. Which they have just done recently to share some news about the latest installment of the Black Tar Prophecies, also known as some [...]

There is no denying the dark majesty of these early Black Sabbath albums – if you don’t like them then you don’t like Metal and it’s gonna be tough for us to become friends. I’m not sure if these new Warner Brothers reissues will feature the remastered audio found on the recent deluxe CD reissues, [...]

Man, I loved this band’s last album – Carboniferous. But I can’t front and pretend like I had heard about Zu before that. Too bad, because these guys have apparently been splitting skulls with buzz-sawed sax skronks and richter scale riffs for several years now. Public Guilt is giving 2005’s The Way of the Animal [...]

Denovali Records and Vega Vinyl have teamed up to offer this new three-way split from three crushing bands (well, I guess only two of them would really be considered “crushing”).  East of the Wall, Year of No Light, and Rosetta have each contributed songs to this 2xLP, most of which is some heavy, heavy metal.  [...]

The vinyl edition of this sand-blasted metal epic from Nile is now available to order on appropriately sand-colored vinyl. As far as Egyptian-styled thematic metal goes, Nile really takes the cake – but then again, they are pretty much the only game in town that I know of. Pick up a copy for $24 from [...]

This is Shining from Norway, not to be confused with Shining from Sweden. One plays black-metal, and the other plays Blackjazz. Get it straightened out in your head before heading to theomegaorder.com and placing your order.
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Oh, death metal. I can’t really pretend to know a lot about it, but when 20BuckSpin says “one of the greatest Swedish death metal albums of all time” I tend to pay attention. They seem like trustworthy people. This is a limited repress of 500 copies, some of which are currently available for twenty-one death [...]

There’s really nothing I could say about this record that would possibly make you want to buy it any more or less than you already do or don’t want to buy it. The Epitaph exclusive tan vinyl is up currently out of stock at epitaph.com, limited to 500 and housed in a gatefold jacket with [...]

Satori, also known as one of the most amazing albums of all time, has been reissued once again by Phoenix Records. In 1971, this was Japan’s answer to Black Sabbath – and since Japan and Black Sabbath are both completely fucking awesome, it should come as no great surprise that this album is as well. [...]

The newest album from Darkthrone is now available to pre-order on 180 gram vinyl. This should be welcome news for those in the know, and those who are not have an opportunity to add a few notches to their kvlt stick (or schtick). This is numbered and limited to 2000 copies from the Peaceville store [...]