Black ‘n’ Roll

Track Premiere: Valletta – ‘On the Run’

September 3, 2024

Black ‘n’ rollers Valletta (feat. members of Prayer for Cleansing and Mo’ynoq) share a new song from their upcoming album.

Track Premiere: Persekutor – “Brain Freeze”

October 6, 2022

Grab your hoodie as L.A.-based, Romania-bred black ‘n’ rollers Persekutor return with their first chilly new track since 2020’s Permanent Winter LP.

Video Premiere: Angstskríg- “Skyggespil”

April 12, 2021

“The black wanderers continue their journey through the Nordic wonderland from bright, snow-covered, frozen lakes into the darkness …”

Video Premiere: Vreid – “The Morning Red”

March 9, 2021

Vreid‘s new track, “The Morning Red,” is “a blueprint of our eternal creative duality of melancholia and primal aggression.”

Video Premiere: Cloak – ‘Tempter’s Call’

August 6, 2019

Watch the first video from the upcoming new album, The Burning Dawn, from Atlanta-based black ‘n’ roll crew Cloak.

Video Premiere: Take Over and Destroy – “Let Me Grieve”

October 7, 2016

Get creepy with Take Over and Destroy and some creature features in this new video.

Deaf By Metal, A Q&A With Mantar’s Hanno

August 22, 2016

Ode to the Flame sounds like a typical Nuclear Blast release. A valiant knight astride a white armored horse. The knight’s hand is aloft, in it he’s holding a great flaming sword, for which he’ll use to the slay the malignant flying beast perched behind him on the top of a snow-capped mountain. But Ode to the Flame isn’t a typical Nuclear Blast release. Not by its cover or band the band, Mantar, that created it.