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VIA DOLORIS
VIA DOLORIS
04 Jul 2026
Gildas Le Pape's musical path has looped back on itself. Born in Brittany, France, he grew up on metal and classical music, drifted into jazz, spent 2007 to 2013 touring the world as guitarist for Norwegian black metal institution SATYRICON, then all but vanished into jazz again for the better part of a decade. Now based in Oslo, and back playing with Satyricon this year, he has just released Guerre et Paix (War and Peace) — the debut album of his solo black metal project VIA DOLORIS, out now on Season of Mist. Gildas wrote and recorded nearly everything himself: guitars, vocals, lyrics in three languages, even the cover art. The one thing he didn't do alone was the drums, which he handed to a man he calls the best black metal drummer alive — his Satyricon bandmate Frost. Gildas sat down with The MetalList to talk about the Breton bagpipe drone hiding inside his signature "chainsaw" guitar riff, why he keeps his black metal and his jazz strictly unmixed, the internal war and peace behind the album's themes, and why he designed a cover with no pentagrams in sight.
THE GHOULSTARS
THE GHOULSTARS
28 Jun 2026
Finland's THE GHOULSTARS spent five years haunting stages before releasing a single note — a horror-punk supergroup of seasoned players hiding behind corpse paint and ghoul names. Founder, guitarist and main songwriter Markus "Daddy Ghoul" Laakso sat down with The MetalList to talk about the debut album The Dark Overlords of the Universe (Season of Mist), the B-movie, sci-fi and '80s obsessions behind the concept, assembling the band, shooting the "Too Ghoul For School" video in a Cadillac that once belonged to Alexi Laiho of CHILDREN OF BODOM, his school years in San Diego, the personal grief tucked inside songs about monsters — and why this music either grabs people or it doesn't.
ERDVE
ERDVE
05 Jun 2026
Lithuania's ERDVE built their name on crushing, sludge-laced metallic hardcore — and on never quite standing still. Five years on from Savigaila, the band return with Epigrama, their third album and their second for Season of Mist — a record that only exists because they threw away the one before it. Vocalist, songwriter and main creative force Vaidotas sat down with The MetalList to talk about scrapping a finished, label-ready album for lacking sincerity, co-producing for the first time with guitarist Adomas, lyrics built on the idea of universal entropy and "moral debt," the hand-made gravestone statues behind the artwork, and what it was like to play a Vilnius church and the former Lukiškės Prison — a building where his own grandfather was once held.
...AND OCEANS
...AND OCEANS
22 May 2026
Few bands have worn as many skins as …AND OCEANS. From the symphonic black metal of their late-90s debut, through the cyber-industrial detour of A.M.G.O.D. and Cypher, to the genre-spanning sound of 2025’s The Regeneration Itinerary, the Finns have made a career out of never repeating themselves. Days before flying to Baltimore for their first-ever U.S. performance at Maryland Deathfest XXI, vocalist Mathias Lillmåns and drummer Kauko Kuusisalo sat down with The MetalList to talk about the writing process behind the new album, why their covers carry no logo, the puzzle of juggling multiple bands — and why standing still would be the worst thing they could do.
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
13 May 2026
Germany's DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT released their sixth album, Innern, in September 2025 — a record that has since landed on year-end lists across the metal press and seen its first vinyl pressing sell out. With the band finally on their way to a long-awaited US debut at Maryland Deathfest, founder, vocalist, guitarist and producer Nikita Kamprad joined us over Zoom from his studio in Würzburg to talk about the album's making, the anonymous WWII diary that shaped its lyrics, throat singing, playing in a church, and what "the path of a freedom" actually means after sixteen years.
UNVERKALT
UNVERKALT
01 May 2026
UNVERKALT are an avant-garde post-metal band founded in Athens in 2017 by guitarist Themis and vocalist Dimitra, and now based in Berlin. Their third album, Héréditaire, is their first for Season of Mist — and the heaviest, most personal record they've made: a turn toward black metal screams and tremolo, a guest appearance from Sakis Tolis (ROTTING CHRIST), and a Greek-titled track built on Themis's grandmother's memories of the 1922 Burning of Smyrna. Themis and Dimitra sat down with The MetalList to talk about the move from Athens to Berlin, working with Sakis, languages on the record, the rain-soaked shoot for "Oath ov Prometheus," and what dish, exactly, Héréditaire would be on a plate.
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RAKINUA — Esi Um Ninu - Heal Us Mother
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Esi Um Ninu - Heal Us Mother (2026)
★★★★ 8/10
EMPTINESS — Nowhere Speaks
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Nowhere Speaks (2026)
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WAILIN STORMS — The Arsonist
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Apocalyptic Steel (2026)
★★★½ 7/10
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★★★★½ 9/10
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