Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Latest avant-garde black metal tracks
ESSENZ - Peeled & Released
No Clean SingingFollow “There’s a reason why I chose SHADES OF BLACK as the title of this series many years ago, instead of…” on Aug 12th, 2018 →
ORGAN - Faithless
No Clean SingingFollow “On Monday of this week I began a two-part collection of music whose title was intended to have a dual…” on Jul 11th, 2018 →
Sigh - L'art de Mourir
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Hands Of Olarc It’s all too convenient to blame the beginning of woodwinds and horns in metal on flute-toting proggers…” on Jun 14th, 2018 →
Cloak Of Altering - Our Children Are In Sync With The New Gods
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Maurice de Jong is a remarkably pleasant person. The composer of songs with titles like “And There Will Be More…” on Jun 12th, 2018 →
Ekpyrosis - Instigation Of Entropy
No Clean SingingFollow “Many bands have followed the trail of blood and death blazed by such heralded bands as Incantation and Immolation in…” on May 2nd, 2018 →
Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - Cleansing The Siraxas - The Exalted Ones
No Clean SingingFollow “(After a hiatus, we present another edition of Andy Synn’s three-line reviews.) According to my records (or vague recollections) it’s…” on Apr 10th, 2018 →
COBALT - Gin
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “I distinctly remember where I heard Radiohead’s Kid A for the first time. It was on a road trip, driving…” on Feb 12th, 2018 →
Schammasch - Chimerical Hope
No Clean SingingFollow “There won’t be a SHADES OF BLACK column today. I’ve had a very busy but fun-filled weekend with Ms. Islander,…” on Jan 14th, 2018 →
DROTTNAR - Ad Hoc Revolt
No Clean SingingFollow “(In the final Synn Report of 2017, Andy assesses the discography as it exists to date of the distinctive Norwegian…” on Dec 30th, 2017 →
Dodecahedron - DODECAHEDRON - An ill-Defined Air Of Otherness
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Editor’s note: Yes, it’s that time of the year again! While our own Album of the Year list is coming…” on Dec 15th, 2017 →
CODE - Plot Of Skinned Heavens
No Clean SingingFollow “< code > It occurred to me that the tag I came up with for these round-ups of new tracks…” on Oct 18th, 2017 →
Schammasch - Prologue
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Well, it’s been a minute, but we’re back with a vengeance for another installment of Kvlt Kolvmn! Hope you didn’t…” on Jul 7th, 2017 →
Sigh - Kaedit Nos Pestis
20 jazz funk greatsFollow “While Japanese ambient is a common feature of this blog, Japanese black metal is a little more of a rarity.…” on Jun 9th, 2017 →
Zeal and Ardor - Come On Down
Swan FungusFollow “Through the darkness of future past / The magician longs to see / One chance out between two worlds: Fire…” on May 21st, 2017 →
De Magia Veterum - And as thou didst offer thy blood upon it, so also will I offer my blood upon an altar on the earth
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Well, third time’s a charm, I guess—this here is the third consecutive installment of Kvlt Kolvmn Take Two, a monthly…” on Apr 6th, 2017 →
MORD'A'STIGMATA - Hope
MetalSucksFollow “Blackened melodeath-doom that fans of Behemoth and Daylight Dies will find equally engrossing. The post Albums That Will #$@&%*! Your…” on Feb 2nd, 2017 →
Ashenspire - Speak Not Of The Laudanum Quandary
No Clean SingingFollow “(TheMadIsraeli reviews the new album by Ashenspire from Glasgow, Scotland.) I’m into a lot of really emotive, depressing, progressive or…” on Jan 31st, 2017 →
Aenaon - Oneirodynia
No Clean SingingFollow “(KevinP returns to NCS with a new episode of his short-interview series, and this time talks with Achilleas Kalantzis, guitarist…” on Jan 25th, 2017 →
Lashblood - To Rest... (demo vers)
No Clean SingingFollow “Once again I find myself drowning in attractive new black metal. I’ve assembled some of my new discoveries in this…” on Nov 13th, 2016 →