Black Metal
Fortress Festival is aiming to become biggest UK black metal festival, announcing two main stage headliners – Triptykon and Wolves in The Throne Room – and a second stage headliner, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. Other newly-confirmed bands include: Gaerea, Thy Light, Sylvaine, Ultha, Waldgeflüster, Dodsrit, and Blood Countess. The Festival will take place on 1-2 June 2024 in Scarborough, […]
FORTRESS FESTIVAL first line-up reveal is packed with UK-exclusive shows, including BLACKBRAID, PANOPTICON, FURIA, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM, FELLWARDEN and more! Festival set to take place on 1-2 June 2024 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, aims to become the biggest black metal festival in the UK Weekend early bird tickets on sale now at only […]
The Music World Can Shock, But This Really Has Eyebrows Raised In 2021 Dani Filth revealed that there had been rumblings of a collaboration with pop sensation Ed Sheeran. Surprisingly to the metal scene it was shared that Sheeran was actually a huge Cradle of Filth fan and had been […]
After the closest vote yet, and arguably the strongest selection of finalists since we launched BOTM back in August 2020, CHROME WAVES have taken home this months accolade, pipping Winter to the top spot by just one vote! CHROME WAVES was formed in the summer of 2010 by Jeff Wilson […]
Green Lung have been winning the hearts and minds of the underground community since their 2019 debut ‘Woodland Rites’ and they have recruited TotalRock into their cult as we voted them band of the month for September 2021. One of the leading lights in the UK’s heavy underground scene, their […]
Paysage d’Hiver is the frostbitten project of Tobias “Wintherr” Möckl which epitomises the harshness of winter. The Ritual here on TotalRock chats exclusively to Wintherr about the new upcoming album in ‘Geister’, the history of the project and what lies ahead for the master of winter wanderings. Nate: Hello and […]
Endezzma ‘The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder’ 22 January 2021 – Dark Essence records Words: Mark Green Hailing from the depths of Norway, Endezzma bring black metal with a twist of death metal mixed in to a perfect cocktail of evil. Although the band have been going for many years, […]
In the last couple of years, the UK metal underground has seen an explosion of black metal bands and releases that are not only exceptional in quality but also at expanding the horizons. Spider God are one such band who exploded onto the scene in Halloween 2020 with their debut […]
Once again our DJs curated a fantastic selection to choose from, and it was very close between the shortlist, but we can announce that A Forest of Stars are Band of the Month for December 2020. Album: ‘Grave Mounds & Grave Mistakes’ Release: 28th September 2018 Style: Psychedelic Avant-garde Black […]
Μνήμα or ‘Tomb’ when translated into English are masters at bringing the listener uncomfortable and chaotic music that ranges from noise to black metal. 2020 has been a bumper year for this Greek entity and The Ritual has caught up with them to talk about their latest exploits… Nate: “Hello […]
UK Cvlt Black Metal act Heathen Deity to perform rare live and unmasked show Whilst having reformed in 2016, Heathen Deity’s live schedule has been somewhat minimal, with just thirteen shows to their belt up until February 2019! Even more elusive is that promised first album, so far having taken four years […]
Vegard are fast becoming a very well known name in the underground black metal scene, and 2020 is their busiest year to date. This atmospheric black metal band headed up by Count Vornok and Grond speak exclusively to Nate about ther recent EP which sold out in record time and […]
