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...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.
LABYRINTHUS STELLARUM
LABYRINTHUS STELLARUM
17 Apr 2026
The Odesa band on three albums in three years, the Nirlakh universe, ALESTORM's attention, and what's coming on the fourth record. We talk home studios, remote collaboration over Discord, Mark Cooper's artwork, and RINGS OF SATURN as the gold standard of merch. Plus: Pandora, Scavengers Reign, Final Space, and a dream of playing a concert in orbit.
SAOR
SAOR
03 Apr 2026
Andy Marshall is the sole architect behind SAOR, the Glasgow-based one-man project that has spent more than a decade redefining what atmospheric black metal can sound like when filtered through the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. With Amidst the Ruins — his most compositionally ambitious record to date — still fresh in listeners' minds, Marshall sat down with The MetalList to talk about Scottish history, creative process, the politics of independence, his unshakeable support for Ukraine, and why he absolutely does not like whisky.
1914
1914
18 Mar 2026
The MetalList returns after a long hiatus, and our first piece is a conversation with one of the most compelling voices in contemporary extreme metal. 1914 are a Lviv band who turned meticulous WWI archive research into their own musical language. In November 2025, they released Viribus Unitis — their fourth album, recorded during the full-scale invasion, with one guitarist having joined the military just before the studio sessions. At the end of March the band sets out on their first proper European tour in five years, and in May comes Maryland Deathfest in the US — if the American bureaucracy finally backs down. We talked about everything: from archive work and the book inside the deluxe edition to vinyl collecting, dungeon synth and gorgonopsids. We're glad this conversation became the first after our return.
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DEFILED — Altered State
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Altered State (2026)
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ERDVE — Epigrama
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The Ghost of a Future Dead (2026)
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THE GHOULSTARS
The Dark Overlords of the Universe (2026)
★★★★ 8/10
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