END OF YEAR GUEST POST: Severe Torture’s Top 10 Albums of 2024


 

Wrapping up all the business of 2024 with some fun End of Year Guest Posts from bands, friends, music industry pals, label types, and assorted good fiends! Check out this list from the guys in Severe Torture! Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: The Other Sun – Daimon, Devil, Dawn


Daimon, Devil, Dawn (Invictus Productions/The Anja Offensive) is the debut album from Dark Rock group The Other Sun. The Swedish trio are described as Occult/Dark Rock but that label does not reflect their distinctive mix of Surf Rock, 70’s rock and Western soundtracks. Featuring members of Saturnalia Temple, and Árstíðir Lífsins this eclectic blending of sunny, Californian surf rock with Ennio Morricone film scores creates a unique gothic rock.Continue reading


NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Rock and Metal Releases 3-1-24


What new Rock and Metal albums are you excited for this week?
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PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases 3-1-24


What new Rock and Metal albums are you excited for this week?
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Beyond The Gates 2016: Live At The Garage Bergen NO


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So, we’re the Ghost Cult, and they’re a cvlt festival in Bergen ‘The Cradle Of Black Metal’, Norway. It’s a match made in heaven. It’s a solid swipe to the right, and it brings the promise of a romantic walk down that left hand path. OK, enough now. I mean, according to a pilot study conducted by famous Vilayanur Ramachandran there’s potential readers out there suffering from what is known as ‘metaphor blindness’. Keeping it simple: we found ourselves at one of Norway’s hottest underground metal festivals at the very last weekend of August, for four days of a full à la carte metal menu.

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Venom Inc, Deströyer 666, Gaahl, Black Anvil, Gehennah To Play Beyond The Gates Fest This Weekend


Beyond the Gates poster 2016 ghostcultmag

Celebrating their 5th anniversary this weekend in Bergen NO, the Beyond The Gates Festival brings the best in underground Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom, Thrash, Occult and Heavy Metal. Headliners include Venom Inc, featuring Abbadon and Mantas from the legendary Venom, Deströyer 666, and Gaahl’s (Gorgoroth, Wardruna) new band, Gaahls WYRD. Consisting of Trelldom material only, the Gaahl has commented “Many of these songs, from frontman Gaahl’s first ever black metal band, have never been played live before, so this will be a unique and unforgettable event.”

 

You can get tickets for the weekend at this link:

Beyond The Gates Festival -Full Line-up:

Venom Inc (UK)

Deströyer 666 (AU)

Gaahls WYRD performing Trelldom (N)

Infernal War (PL)

Secrets of the Moon (D)

Nekromantheon (N)

Degial (S)

Gehennah (S)

Urfaust (NL)

Magister Templi (N)

Black Anvil (US)

Sortilegia (CA)

Malthusian (IRL)

Nettlecarrier (N)

Spirit Cabinet (NL)

Saturnalia Temple (S)

Ritual Death (N)

Reptilian (N)

Black Magic (N)

Gravdal (N)

For further information, please contact torgrim.oyre@gmail.com

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