30/10/02 - The review to Craft - "Terror Propaganda", one of thhe best albums that I've listened in the last months is finally online. Check it here.

The german label Barbarian Wrath and their US correspondent Witches Brew, will release in this month (October) the following albums:
Sithlord - "The Return To Godless Times" (Old-School Thrash-metal)
Stiny Plamenu - "Rány Cerným Kovem" (Very primitive Blackmetal from Czech Republic)
Hatework - "Madbent For Disaster" (Italian thrashers in the vein of Tankard)
The Chasm - "Conjuration Of The Spectral Empire" (Old-school Deathmetal from Mexico)

The Portuguese Alastor (a side project with elements from Decayed) are recording their new album "Face The Barbarian Alastor" that will also be released through Barbarian Wrath in the end of this year.

Countess, the Dutch Blackmetal legends have just finished recording their new album "Tales Of Blasphemy And Desacration" that will be released in early 2003. Expect for soon an interview with them here in Sinful Obscurity.

Grand Belial's Key have licensed their latest release "Judeobeast ASSaSSination" to Moribund Records for a domestic release in the following weeks.

The North-American NunSlaughter have finished the recordings of their new album "Goat" that will be released through Revenge Productions in November.

After releasing the very well received "Enter the Sea of Flames", Morrigan, are now very busy with some concerts in German soil.

Heretic that haven't released yet their latest album "Devilworshipper" are already recording its follow up entitled "Breeding Children To Sacrifice To Satan"

21/09/2002 - The Interview with Sataere from InThyFlesh has been uploaded. Check it here.

The interview with Ogham in behalf of Sterkvind has been uploaded. Check it here.

Graveland and Lord Wind are preparing new albums, still nameless, that will be released in the beginning of 2003.

Due to Gaahl being in prison, the release of the new Gaahlskagg album was delayed. The album will be released, probably, in the beginning of 2003.

Carpathian Forest will release their new album "We are Going to Hell for This" in October on vynil through the German label No Colours Records.

Abyssic Hate are planning to re-release their Demo "Cleansing of an Ancient Race" and their MCD "Eternal Damnation" in CD/LP format.

We are preparing a huge article about the HeadbangersFest that will be concluded and uploaded soon, but meanwhile you can see some information and photos at the Fest official site www.headbangersfest.com

30/07/02 - A few reviews have been uploaded:
Lux Ferre - "Wicked Riffs of War
Gwidion - "Augmentation"
Storm Legion - "...Statement"
Abyssic Hate - "Suicidal Emotions"
Armagedda - "The Final War Approaching"
Black Dawn - "Blood for Satan"
Carpathian Forest - "Morbid Fascination of Death"
Godless North - "Summon the Age of Supremacy"

The New Nargaroth album "Geliebte des Regens" is nearly ready recorded! It is scheduled to be released in the Autumn of this year.

Norwegian Tsjuder have finally finished the recording of their new album entitled "Diabolical Possession". That's for sure the most brutal Satanic Black Metal album ever recorded in Norway. That jewel will be available the 15th of june. Limited edition digipack and LP version are planned. Later will come the normal standard CD version.

Gaahlskagg will be in the Studio later this year to record the new album "Av Noront Blot". Musically it should be more unrelenting and in the sytle of Darkthrone´s "Transilvanian Hunger". The release date is planned around autumn 2002.

The next Abyssic Hate album will be called "Medication" and will be released in about a year! A limited Split LP with Judas Iscariot is also being planned.

The second Iuvenes Album "When heroes will rise" will be released soon.

Sathanas MCD and Seeds of hate CD are out now!

The new Arghoslent CD "Incorrigible Bigotry" will be released soon.

Later this year will be the release of the long-since recorded "Moonlight Butchery" MCD/10"MLP from Judas Iscariot. With this recording the band returns to the slower forbidding style of their earlier works and includes an unreleased bonus track!

Graveland's new album, "Memory and Destiny", is being recorded at the moment. This new album will firstly be released in A5 format (like Nargaroth - "Blackmetal Ist Krieg". This album is scheduled to be released in the Autumn of this year.

The third album "The fate worse than death" from Thor's Hammer will be released by No Colours. The album is ready recorded and will be released in June!.

After surprisingly getting a female vocalist, Sinister are now looking for a guitar player, if you're interested in the place check this:
The new guitarist needs to be technically well skilled and besides be able to guarantee a full commitment to the band. Interested? If so send an e-mail to paul@mtb.eur.nl. - Taken with permission from Hammerheart's official website.

The Greek metal legends Septic Flesh have recently signed up with Hammerheart Records. The band will soon enter the Fredman Studios to record their first album through this label.

Grand Belial's Key European tour was cancelled due to a boycott movement emerging from Holland. But Drakkar has managed to make a mini-tour with GBK, Unpure and Watain. You can see the dates of the tour here.

Drakkar productions new new jewel is Anwil that are in studio preparing their debut album. So expect an uncorrupted assault of the most violent Black/Death Metal.

Tsjuder's new Blackmetal assault named "Demonic Possession" will be released in the 1st of April.

Following the very well received "Hellbrigade", Centinex's new album "Diabolical Desolation" will be released in 11/03/02.

The release of Satyricon's new album (already recorded) was delayed to late Summer due to reasons beyond control of the band. But expect news from Satyricon soon, as they will release an album (sort of best of) commemorating 10 years of existence named "Ten Horns - Ten Diadems", in this spring.

18/01/02 - The interview with Nag regarding Tsjuder's upcoming album is finally available here.

Thorns' homonymous debut full length album has been nominated "Metal album of year 2001" by Norwegian indie awards Alarm.

Satyricon have completed the recording of their new album and are currently waiting to mix.

Satyricon have been visited in the studio by guest artists Anja Garbarek and Knut Schreiner(Euroboys, ex-Turbonegro). They are currently awaiting further contributions from Phil Anselmo(Pantera, Necrophagia) and David Vincent( The Genitortures, ex-Morbid Angel)

New AntaeuS album "De Principiis Evangelikum" in early 2002.

It's rumored that Peter Tagtgren will closed he's very well known The Abyss Studios, because some labels are using this studio as a marketing maneuver.

New albums coming up from Candlelight in 2002:
Source Of Tide - "Blueprints" - Feb 25th
Various - "Candlelight Collection" - Feb 25th - Compilation of some of Candlelight bands
Centinex - "Diabolical Desolation" - March 11th
Incantation - TBA - March 11th - USA Deathmetal legends are back, this time connected to Candlelight
Arcturus - "Aspera Hiems Synf." + "Constellation EP" - March 25th - The remix of this classical
Insomnium - "In The Halls Of Awaiting" - April 8th
Kaamos - TBA - April 8th
Zyklon - TBA - May - An Ep with special CD-Rom features
Myrkskog - TBA - TBA - The awaited return of this excellent band
Christian Death - TBA - TBA 

Sound Riot:
- 2 bands have recently signed by Sound Riiot. Their monikers are the following: Eridu Arcane (NOR) and Rupture Christ (USA).
- Incinerator's album (still nameleess) will probably be released during December. They haven't decided where the recording sessions will take place.
- Grayscale will start recording ttheir -still nameless- new album in July, at Watercastle Studio. 
- Lost in Twilight's full-lenght wwas put on hold, due to some problems. It will be recorded, as planned initially, at Astia Studios.

Help the Portuguese metal by writing an e-mail to headbanger@infiniteshop.net saying the 10 bands you want to see playing live in Lusitanian ground during the year of 2002.

So Die Music
- The Portuguese grinders Holocausto Canibal have finished the recordings of their second album, entitled "Sublime Massacre Corpóreo". Vukodlack (from Sirius) and the Stealing Orchestra were also involved in this brutal recording process. Some of the song titles are: "Raped by Chainsaw", "Suffocated by Semen", "Blenorragic 'Doggy-Style' Fuck" and "Cadaveric Spasm Ejaculation". 

Osmose Productions:
- The latest effort from Enslaved is entitled "Monumension" and will be released in 19th November. Here's the tracklist:
1. Convoys To Nothingness 
2. The Voices
3. Vision: Sphere of the Elements - A Monument Part II
4. Hollow Inside (Featuring Trygve Mathiesen on vocals) 
5. The Cromlech Gate 
6. Enemy I 
7. Smirr
8. The Sleep: Floating Diversity - A Monument Part III 
9. Outro: Self - Zero

01/11/2001 - It was uploaded the review of Abominattion's "Rites of the Eternal Hate", this was the first release of the new Portuguese label Progress Music. Check it here.

18/10/2001 - It is finally online the interview with Lord Ahriman regarding Dark Funeral's latest release, "Diabolis Interium". Here

Candlelight:
- Zyklon have found a replacement for Daemon, the lucky guy is Secthdamon (Odium/ Myrkskog) who will handle both vocals and bass during the next tour.
- Centinex and Insomnium hhave entered studio with the purpose of recording their new albums.
- Myrkskog went to Florida to recoord the follow up for the great "Deathmachine" along with Eric Rutan from Morbid Angel. 
- The new Emperor album entitled ""Prometheus - The Disciple of Fire and Demise" is finally available, expect the review within a couple of days here in Sinful Obscurity.

Hiberica:
- The label features 2 new releases: Decayed's "Ten Years of Steel" and Corpus Christii's "The Fire God (digipack CD). The first one includes live tracks and it's limited to 1010 hand-numbered copies.
- Due to censorship problems, the videocliip recorded by the polemic Corpus Christii, which was to be featured as bonus for their new album "The Fire God, will only appear on a special edition of this album that will be released in the beginning of 2002.

Drakkar:
- The French Label arranged a tour that wiill take place in February 2002. The chosen bands are Grand Belial's Key, Tsjuder, Unpure and probably other support band. 
- 3 new releases are available. Grand< Belial's Key "Judeobeast Assassination", Vermeth's debut and Abigail's MCd.
- The american Sathanas will releaase a MCd entitled "Cruendos Diabolos", in December.
- Slavia is the name of Norway's nnew black metal band. They've released a pro tape through Drakkar and judging by the reviews, these guys really kick ass.
- Seeds of Hate haave signed with Drakkar. The title of the german's first album through this label is entitled "Persecution of Human Filth". Out in December 2001.
- Abigail have started the recordiing sessions for their new album, wich will be released in February 2002, in CD and LP version.
- Corpus Christii, currentlly under the banner of Hiberica, will release a new 7"EP through Drakkar. In 2002.
- The Spanish Primigenium and the Australian Atomizer have signed with Drakkar. 
- After the excellent "Kill for Satan", Tsjuder are recording a new black metal assault. It will be released in 2002.
- Decayed's new album "Nockthurnaaal" is finally available. Decayed and their label Drakkar are officially distributed in Portugal by Hiberica.

Century Media:
- Borknagar's new album - "Empiriciism" have seen the light of day in the latest days, but unfortunately I haven't got the chance to listen to it yet. This new album marks the debut appearance of two new band members, bassist Tyr (who plays live with Emperor) and vocalist Vintersorg (who replaces the departed ICS Vortex), on a Borknagar record. The tracklist is the following: "Liberated", "Gods of My World", "The Stellar Dome", "The Genuine Pulse", "Inherit the Earth", "The Black Canvas", "The view of Everlast", "Soul Sphere" and "Four Element Syncronocity".
- The Brazilian Krisiun are back, once again, this deeath metal trio has delivered an extraordinary album full of excessive speed, inhuman drumming, and staggering guitar work called "Ageless Venomous". The track listing for this album is as follows: "Perpetuation", "Dawn Of Flagellation", "Ageless Venomous", "Evil God's Havoc", "Eyes Of Eternal Scourge", "Savior's Blood", "Serpent's Specters" (instrumental) (Yes. You read it right: Instrumental. Their first ever.), "Ravenous Hordes", "Diableros" (a classically-tinged guitar and percussion instrumental), and "Sepulchral Oath.". Expect soon its review in Sinful Obscurity
- Cryptopsy vocalist Mike Disalvo as departed from the band alleging personal problems, a successor has already been found, but the band hasn't said yet who he is, preparing, maybe, a big surprise.

Moonfog:
- Darkthrone has resigned with Mooonfog, this time we can say that it is a lifetime deal. Their new album, "Plaguewielder", is finally available.
- Dødheimsgard are currently prepaaring their new album and will begin to record shortly. 
- Satyricon started the recording of their new album in Denmark in the 15th of August, no date to be released is scheduled yet. They have also singed up with EMI for the distribution of their next album in the Nordic countries. This signature seemed to cause some kind of comments in the Blackmetal scene, so Satyr decided to say something:
"It seems that we are the talk of the town due to the signing with EMI and I feel that it's time to speak to our supporters directly. The deal we have signed is for the Nordic countries and it is not decided yet who will release our new album outside of this territory. There's no drama involved in this(although I know Black Metal people like drama). Satyricon have signed a record contract which is going to provide us with a better recording budget and a stronger machinery behind us. As Satyricon has grown bigger and bigger it has also become increasingly difficult to be the artist and the label manager at the same time. Maybe that is why Monumentum is signed to Moonfog and not Avantgarde, Zyklon and Emperor to Candlelight and not Nocturnal Art and so on. Still though, we will release certain things on Moonfog in the future because it is so important to us to still be a part of the Moonfog family. We started this! Already next year there will be a Satyricon 10 years jubileum album called: "Ten horns, Ten diadems" on Moonfog. We'll see, but I think our deal with EMI is a good step for Black Metal. It was certainly a good step for Heavy Metal when they started working with Iron Maiden(which they still do). Why can't people listen to us or a band like Morbid Angel(previously on Giant Records in U.S.A) instead of Limp Bizkit and Korn? Let Darkness prevail, not rap metal. There's always going to be a portion of envy, alienating and jealousy in cases like this but we can't think about this. We have to continue to record our darkest and heaviest album to this date. Enough said."

Avantgarde Music:
- It is available a special edition of > Diabolical Masquerade "Death's Design" with a completely different cover layout.

Nocturnal Art:
- Limbonic Art are prepariing the material for their new album scheduled to be released in the Autumn of this year (2001)

Nuclear Blast:
- The Portuguese Blackmetal band Siriuus that was previous connected with Nocturnal Art have recently signed with Nuclear Blast. This was not the only change in Sirius, their vokills Gornoth left the band, in a friendly way, and was replaced by Glaurung DragonVomit from the also Lusitanian band The Firstborn.
- Immortal's new effort "Sons of thhe Northern Darkness" is finally recorded (within the more-than-seen The Abyss Studios) and will be available on the 4th of February 2002. The Sinful Obscurity crew truly hopes a release without the "typical swedish sonority". 

Metal Blade:
- The Crown have started tthe pre-production of "Crowned in Terror", their latest effort. They will enter Studio Mega to record in the 5th of October and in the 12th of December they will enter Studio Fredman to mix the album. Some advanced song titles are: "Drugged Unholy", "Crowned In Terror", "Under The Whip" and "(I Am) Hell". This album is schedule to be released in February of 2002.

No Fashion:
- The new Dark Funeral albbum named "Diabolis Interium" is finally available. You can check out the it's review here.
- The debut mini-cd from Wolfen Society will be available soon. Wolfen Society is a project featuring Lord Ahriman (Dark Funeral), Vincent Crowley (Acheron), Kyle Severn (Incantation), Thomas Thorn & Ricktor Ravensbruck (The Electric Hellfire Club).

No Colours:
- Nargaroth have recorded over thaan 20 songs which will be used to release "Rasluka Part I" (Sombre Records) "Rasluka Part II" (No Colours), "Semper Fidelis" (No Colours) and an album called "Geliebte des Regens" that was not in the plans of the label, neither the band! About this surprising album Kanwulf says that "it's the best I've ever done".
- After playing in the "Under the Black Suun Festival" in this summer, Akhenaten decided that Judas Iscariot will no longer play live, the reasons are still unknown to me.

03/08/2001 - After some problems with geocities, the website is finally online. The metal scene was embraced by Sinful Obscurity.