Paris, France-based black metal group Glorior Belli are about to release their third full-length (and first on Candlelight Records), Meet Us At The Southern Sign on June 2, 2009. Additionally, Glorior Belli will begin their first U.S. tour alongside labelmates Absu and Sothis this June.

Meet Us At The Southern Sign Track List:
1. In A Blood Red Moon
2. The Forbidden Words
3. Swamp That Shame
4. There Is But One Light
5. True Essence
6. In Every Grief-Stricken Blues
7. Nox Illuminatio Mea
8. The Blazing Darkness
9. Fivefold Thought
10. Fires Of The Sitra Ahra
11. Meet Us At The Southern Sign

To celebrate this wicked-sounding release, we are pleased to offer the exclusive preview of “In Every Grief-Stricken Blues.” Check it out below! (more…)

Sweden’s rock pack WOLF are back with their fifth full-length, Ravenous (Century Media). Produced by Roy Z (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Helloween, Halford), Ravenous is the first album on which new bassist Anders Modd and drummer Richard Holmgren join Niklas Stalvind (guitar/vocals) and Johannes Losback (guitar).

While you’ll have to wait until March 24 to pick up your own copy, we here at MetalKult are pleased to offer an exclusive preview of Ravenous streaming in its entirety. Check out the tracks below! (more…)

From the weed-addled mind of Justin Broadrick comes another dreamy Jesu EP, Why Are We Not Perfect? (Hydra Head).

This new five-track EP (two songs of which originally appeared on the vinyl only split 12″ with Eluvium), Broadrick has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past Jesu recordings and brought to the fore elements of texture and melody that previously hovered at the periphery of his monolithic compositions.

While listening to this airy, dramatic music, it may be hard to imagine that it’s coming from the ex-Napalm Death, Godflesh extreme noise bringer. But don’t take our word for it, to check out the stream for yourself click (more…)