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Osmose Productions sets November 25th as the international release date for Liber Null‘s highly anticipated debut album, I – The Serpent. Unrelenting and unrepenting black metal in the vein of Marduk and Watain, Liber Null features members of Acherontas, Fides Inversa, Blut Aus Nord, and Frostmoon Eclipse. Liber Null embodies the dogma-shattering will to oppose the denigration of [...]

Uppsala’s death metal quartet, USURPRESS, are streaming their new studio album in full, prior to its September 23rd release date on Agonia Records. Touted as “forward thinking swedish death metal” by Metal Hammer UK, the record is available for streaming below: “The Regal Tribe” was recorded under the supervision of rising star producer Lawrence Mackrory (FKÜ, Darkane) while the [...]

Cult Swedish death metallers DERANGED have revealed the first song from their upcoming new album, “Struck By A Murderous Siege”, due out on October 28th via Agonia Records. Listen to the track “Reverent Decomposition” at: The band’s first studio album in five years (and their ninth altogether) was recorded at Berno Studio (Amon Amarth, The Crown, Witchery) in Malmö, Sweden. The album’s [...]

ROOT, one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands (formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter), from Czech Republic, are going to release a new studio album, “Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion”, on November 25th via Agonia Records. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss‘ characteristic clean [...]

HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing TODAY (September 30th, 2016) his debut solo album “Helvetin Laulut” in CD, cassette and digital formats through Concorde Music Company. Made in collaboration with producer/mixing engineer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, KYPCK, …), the album wanders on in a singer-songwriter-style, set in a melancholic and gloomy Finnish Rock scenery, every once in a while stepping in depths [...]

In about three weeks, the world will know “Confessions”, the sixth studio album by swedish group Sonic Syndicate. We had a nice little chat with guitarist Robin Sjunnesson about it and some other music-related stuff. TBP: Hi Robin! Thanks for taking a little time for this. Hi! Thanks for having me! The Black Planet and [...]

We here at The Black Planet had the opportunity to interview a very talkative and friendly Oliver Berlin, vocalist of Finsterforst, about their new EP #YØLØ TBP: The band decided to release something completely different from the usual concept. What is the concept this time?  Olli: The idea was to show our fun loving and drinking self. [...]

SAHG is a Norwegian band formed in Bergen in 2004. Their first released was the EP entitled “Godless” in 2005 that was quickly followed by the full-lengh “I” (2006). Their next full-length “II” (2008) was still released under Regain Records. After which they moved till the current day to Indie Recordings, releasing the full length “III” (2010) and “Delusions of [...]

FORÇA MACABRA was formed in 1991 in Punkaharju and currently moved to Helsinki area, Finland. This is an unique band since all band members are Finnish with no obvious connection to Brazil or Portugal, but they adopted a band name and write all lyrics in Portuguese. They explain this fact with the the founding members passion [...]

Maximus Festival Brazil: a good start for a Brazilian solid metal festivals era Maximus festival took place in Interlagos autodrome, São Paulo, Brazil, in the last September 7th. The festival brought on stage Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Bullet for my Valentine and other important names on the metal scene. The first edition of Maximus Festival Brazil [...]

French melodic death metal group Aephanemer have released a video for their track “Unstoppable” that is available bellow. This song was taken from the band’s much anticipated debut album ‘Memento Mori’, scheduled for a release on September 16th, 2016 via Primeval Records. This video was shot by director Cédric Gleyal of Uriprod Video. ‘Memento Mori’ was [...]

OPETH premiered today the lyric video for “Will O The Wisp”, from their upcoming album “Sorceress”. The album will be released via Moderbolaget Records, an imprint label of Nuclear Blast on the 30th of September. Enjoy “Will O The Wisp” lyric video:    Check the “Sorceress” artwork and tracklist: 01. Persephone 02. Sorceress 03. The Wilde Flowers 04. Will O The [...]

You were formed in 2014. In 2015 you released the EP “Time Machine” and this year you released a long play album entitled “Genesis Reversed”. How you see these 2 years of activity and your fast progression? Do you feel things happened too quickly? No, things couldn’t go fast enough, hehe. We are happy with [...]

Legendary Norwegian duo, Darkthrone, will release their new album, “Arctic Thunder”, on October 14th via Peaceville records. “Arctic Thunder” marks the band’s first new studio material since 2013’s “The Underground Resistance”. The album’s opening track, “Tundra Leach”, is streaming below, along with commentary from Fenriz himself. The album was recorded in the band’s old rehearsal [...]