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ALBUM RELEASE: Gomma (ڨمَّةْ) - Wailing and Madness (نواح و جنون)

March 9, 2026
Gomma (ڨمَّةْ) - meaning "manhole" in Arabic - is a one man project from Tunisia founded by Gh'ramm in 2024.
Eschewing the common western scales typical in Black Metal in favour of Arabic scales, motifs, and instrumentation, Gomma (ڨمَّةْ) succeeds in crafting a black metal record that is genuine and authentic, a mosaic of a traditional western genre with an uncompromising Arabic influence. Abrasive guitars form the underbelly of Gomma's music but rather than utilizing tremolo-picked melodies in standard western scales, the melodic aspect is instead carried by maqam modes, blending black metal with Arabic folk music.

"Wailing and Madness" is Gomma's second full-length album, released independently in November 2025 and now distributed through Hypnotic Dirge Records in collaboration with Black Metal Artists 

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Self-released: November 2, 2025
Re-released by Hypnotic Dirge: March 6, 2026

Tracklist:
1 - La'anat Al-Woujoud (لعنة الوجود) (3:39)
2 - Wahat Al-Shouroud (واحة الشرود) (4:03)
3 - Ana'a Al-Majarra (عناء المجرة) (4:42)
4 - Dana'at Al-Amr (دناءة الأمر) (3:30)
5 - Washma Ramad (وشم رماد) (4:56)
6 - Alhan Sarmadeyah (ألحان سرمدية) (3:20)
7 - Hebr Al-Akwan (حبر الأكون) (4:38)
8 - Shorfat Al-Fana'a (شرفة الفناء) (3:00)
Total: 31:51

Album Credits:
All music by Gh'ramm
Album cover by: Gh'ramm
Logo by: Blinx

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Marea signs with Hypnotic Dirge Records for upcoming album

March 5, 2026
Marea — meaning "Tide" in Italian — is the one-man project of Matteo Balzarini from Legnano, in northern Italy. Marea delivers a haunting blend of atmospheric black metal, post-black, dsbm, and doom metal, interwoven with more intimate, dreamy passages featuring acoustic guitar and post-rock sections.


Marea uses these different musical styles to try to convey different feelings, from nostalgia to anguish, from hope to despair and transport the listeners on an introspective and emotional so...

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UPCOMING RELEASE: Escaping Aghartha - Lurkers of Languid Waters

March 3, 2026
It is sadly an indisputable fact that we are living through the Holocene extinction - the sixth mass extinction in the history of earth, and one caused entirely by humans. Current extinction rates persist at 100-1000 times higher than background extinction rates due to anthropogenic climate change, deforestation, ocean acidification, and displacement of wildlife from their natural habitats.

Escaping Aghartha
is a blackened doom metal project drawing attention to this unfortunate reality. In M...

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ALBUM RELEASE: novæ - Destroying Angels

February 27, 2026
novæ's debut album "Destroying Angels" is officially released!


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Album notes:
With a fresh approach on cosmic black metal, novæ conveys the awe, anxiety, and desolation of empty space through the perspective of the Apollo 11 Mission. 

Unfolding like a transmission from the cosmos, discordant guitars clash against ethereal droning synth and authentic samples taken from the Apollo 11 MOCR ACR Collection to craft an immersive atmosphere simultaneously unnerving and tra...

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UPCOMING RELEASE: Conjuring - Memento Mori

February 24, 2026
Hypnotic Dirge Records will release the new album from Swiss project Conjuring on May 8.


Conjuring is a one-man Atmospheric Black Metal project founded by Alvar. Blending melancholic tremolo passages, immersive atmospheres, and dynamic songwriting - balancing fragility and intensity - the sound draws inspiration from vast landscapes, shifting seasons, fading light, and the quiet presence of ancient spirits.

The upcoming album, "Memento Mori", marks Conjuring’s most mature work to date. Across...

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PRE-ORDERS LIVE: Foghazer - He Left The Temple

February 24, 2026
Pre-orders are now open for "He Left The Temple", the debut release from Foghazer, a project built on trip-hop rhythm, black-metal texture and lo-fi cinematic atmosphere.

A second track - entitled "And" - is now also available to stream!


The record began as an accident. Fragments of trip-hop, early-2000s vinyl scratching, and the Black Metal influences I grew up on colliding with the dark, operatic production of Temples of Boom and the haunted stilln...

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UPCOMING VINYL: Tumultuous Ruin - An Abscess on the Heart of the State

February 19, 2026
Rooted in fury and urgency, "An Abscess on the Heart of the State" is a raw onslaught of destructive and dirty black metal filled with aggressive and discordant riffs that invoke the spirit of the second-wave sound with cold soaring tremolo leads brushing against urgent rhythm sections. The occasional hint of death metal and hardcore, the intuition to know when to add a hypnotizing lead or haunting synth line, and the pacing and tempo variations throughout the runtime keeps the album captivat...

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ALBUM RELEASE: De l’Abîme Naît l’Aube - Rituel: Initiation

February 13, 2026
It is a great honour to officially announce the release of De l’Abîme Naît l’Aube's debut record "Rituel: Initiation" this evening! The culmination of years of creation and refinement from the band and months of preparation on my end, the time when we can finally share the album in full and present it as a complete listening experience is something special.


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In collaboration with Atmospheric Black Metal Albums, the album is premiering now on Youtube! You can find it on ...

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ALBUM RELEASE: Nefarious Grime - Death is Immortal

February 9, 2026
Originally self-released by Nefarious Grime on August 1, 2025, now available on Hypnotic Dirge

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• Album Notes • 
Harkening back to the sultry, vampiric spirit of 90s black metal, "Death is Immortal" marks Nefarious Grime's first foray into the genre, departing from her previously darkwave/gothic-infused sound.

Reminiscent of Cradle of Filth's early erotic-horror flair, Nefarious Grime's "Death is Immortal" layers hau...

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SONG PREMIERE: FOGHAZER - He

February 5, 2026
The opening track from FOGHAZER's forthcoming album "He Left The Temple" is streaming now on our Youtube Channel and Bandcamp Page!



Foghazer is a project built on trip-hop rhythm, black-metal texture and lo-fi cinematic atmosphere, crafting a discordant and haunting atmosphere rooted in black metal aesthetic yet drawing from sounds far outside the genre's confines
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"The record began as an accident. Fragments of trip-hop, early-2000s vinyl scratching, and the Black Metal influences I grew ...

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