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Slagmaur Releases Beautiful Video: “The Great Deception Hulders Ritual”

Slagmaur Releases Beautiful Video: “The Great Deception Hulders Ritual”

by Jillian Drachman | Nov 17, 2025 | News, Video

“A massive thank-you to Fosen Fire & Rescue, the Norwegian Civil Defence, and the Red Cross…” It isn’t every day that two of the greatest creative geniuses go missing. Yet, that’s exactly what appeared to happen on November 13: My favorite musical hooligans, the...
Slagmaur Releases Beautiful Video: “The Great Deception Hulders Ritual”

Experience ‘Hulders’ Ritual’: Thorns’ Snorre Ruch & Slagmaur’s General Gribbsphiiser Have Pulled Off the Greatest Social & Artistic Experiment

by Jillian Drachman | Nov 15, 2025 | News

2025 has been a rather disastrous year for black metal, and Slagmaur’s Hulders Ritual proved the only thing that could have saved it. This masterpiece is truly too fantastic for human ears. As such, this triumph, which seems to have been pushed back to 2026, deserves...
Slagmaur Releases Beautiful Video: “The Great Deception Hulders Ritual”

Thorns’ Snorre Ruch, Slagmaur’s General Gribbsphiiser, and a Third Person Reported Missing

by Jillian Drachman | Nov 13, 2025 | News

This story has since been updated as new information suggests this wasn’t real. Please read more here. Original Story Two of music’s most venerable artists, Thorns’ Snorre Ruch and Slagmaur’s General Gribbsphiiser, plus a third related individual, have gone...
Black Metal Highlight of 2025: Sarkom’s Unsgaard Discusses ‘Exceed In2 Chaos’

Black Metal Highlight of 2025: Sarkom’s Unsgaard Discusses ‘Exceed In2 Chaos’

by Jillian Drachman | Nov 5, 2025 | Interviews

Mr. Erik Unsgaard is the frontman and, at this point, sole composer behind Norway’s Sarkom. Unsgaard co-founded Sarkom in 2003, and the band remains one of black metal’s most worthy outfits. Sarkom finally presented their fifth album, Exceed In2 Chaos, earlier this...
Dark Music’s Most Promising: Storm’s Mastermind Discusses the Band’s Debut Album, ‘Join the Storm’

Dark Music’s Most Promising: Storm’s Mastermind Discusses the Band’s Debut Album, ‘Join the Storm’

by Jillian Drachman | Sep 11, 2025 | Interviews

Leo Davadi Sundli is the rising star whose music you absolutely need to know. At just 16 years old, the prodigious Mr. Sundli has now unleashed his debut album under the Storm banner, which is aptly titled Join the Storm, via the celebrated Indie Recordings. That...
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Textures breakdown new album ‘Genotype’ with track-by-track guide
Textures breakdown new album ‘Genotype’ with track-by-track guide

Dutch progressive metal veterans Textures are back with Genotype, their long-awaited new album, out today (23rd). Serving as a conceptual counterpart to 2016’s Phenotype, Genotype isn’t a continuation so much as a reset, written entirely from scratch and self-produced...

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The Grudge That Should Not Be: Album Review: Megadeth’s final record
The Grudge That Should Not Be: Album Review: Megadeth’s final record

The overall seventeenth, self-titled album marks the beginning of the end for Megadeth. Dave Mustaine deserves credit. That part isn't up for debate. Getting kicked out of Metallica, starting over, and building Megadeth into one of the defining bands of American...

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Rush Announce Super Deluxe Grace Under Pressure Reissues
Rush Announce Super Deluxe Grace Under Pressure Reissues

Rush will release Super Deluxe editions of Grace Under Pressure, arriving March 13, 2026, via UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records. The 1984 album, has been fully revisited with multiple new configurations, including Super Deluxe box sets on CD, LP, Blu-ray, and digital...

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New & Noteworthy: 2026 Releases have arrived – 1/2/2026

New & Noteworthy: 2026 Releases have arrived – 1/2/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Kicking off 2026, this week’s new music includes albums from the likes of Excavated Graves, Fuath, Wildhunt and Dawnbreaker amongst the...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week sees new muisc from the likes of Peter Criss, Dead Sun and Lychgate amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t...

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New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This New Music Friday sees new releases from the likes of Volumes, Lord Of The Lost and Windswept, as well as the debut full-length...

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