BEHEMOTH: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "I, SCVLPTOR"

 

Polish blackened death metal warriors BEHEMOTH have posted a video for the title track from the bands anticipated new release "I, SCVLPTOR", due to be unleashed 9/4/2026 via MASSACRE RECORDS. ..  

 BEHEMOTH  have posted a video for  "NOMEN BARBARVM", a track from the bands anticipated new release "THE SHIT OV GOD",  unleashed 5/9/2025 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

BEHEMOTH have announced  WINTER 2026 CHINESE TOUR DATES...   

 BEHEMOTH have announced  SPRING 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH DEICIDE, IMMOLATION and ROTTING CHRIST.  

BEHEMOTH have announced the band will perform entire "SVENTEVITH (STORMING NEAR THE BALTIC) ALBUM AT BEYOND THE GATES 2026. 

 

 BEHEMOTH have announced FEBRUARY/MARCH 2026 AUSTRALIAN, ASIAN TOUR DATES.  More BEHEMOTH ASIAN tour dates T.B.A.

 BEHEMOTH have posted a video for "AVGR (THE DREAD VVLTVRE)", a track from the bands anticipated new release "THE SHIT OV GOD",  unleashed 5/9/2025 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS 

 BEHEMOTH have posted "SATAN'S SWORD (I HAVE BECOME)", a track from the bands anticipated new reissue of  "PANDEMONIC INCANTATIONS", due to be unleashed 9/12/2025 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.  

 

 

. BEHEMOTH, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "THE SHIT OV GOD",  unleashed 5/9/2025 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

BEHEMOTH, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated live release  "XXX YEARS OV BLASPHEMY", unleashed 10/25/2024 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.

BEHEMOTH unleashed  "OPVS CONTRA NATVRAM",  unleashed 9/16/2022 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. 

BEHEMOTH have won the FRYDERYK  AWARD for their latest release  “OPVS CONTRA NATVRAM”.

BEHEMOTH unleashed "O PENTAGRAM IGNUS" (EP), 9/26/2019 via NEW AEON MUSICK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM BEHEMOTH: 

 

Massacre Records is proud to announce a partnership with Polish extreme metal legends BEHEMOTH! for the worldwide physical edition of their exclusive release I, Scvlptor — featuring 8 unreleased songs, out September 4, 2026 on CD, LP, MC and Limited Edition Box Set.

As Nergal puts it: “I, Scvlptor is Behemoth’s latest full-length release — an autonomous work that bridges our past with what is new and fresh. It features brand-new, previously unreleased tracks that embody the full force of our live energy, intensity, and the fire that has driven this band for decades. Get ready for 40 minutes of a sonic pilgrimage forged at the highest level!”

Pre-order opens June 1, 2026 — cover artwork and full tracklist revealed that day.

 

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: BEHEMOTH:NEW TRACK "I, SCVLPTOR" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF BEHEMOTH)

 

 

 

 

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ITP V.026 SPORTS: NBA POSTS "CHASING HISTORY": MINI MOVIE ABOUT 2026 NBA FINALS

 

 

 

THE NBA (NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION) has posted "CHASING HISTORY",  a mini movie about the 2026 NBA FINALS (SAN ANTONIO SPURS VS. THE NEW YORK KNICKS)

For the first time since 1973 (53 years) the NEW YORK KNICKS basketball team are NBA. CHAMPIONS. 

THE. NEW YORK KNICKS BEAT SAN ANTONIO SPURS 4 GAMES TO 1 (94-90 GAME 5) TO WIN NBA TITLE. 

NEW YORK KNICKS guard JALEN BRUNSON scored 45 points and was named 2026 NBA FINALS MVP..  

There will be a parade down inn the CANYON OF HEROES IN NEW YORK CITY on THURSDAY! 

 

ITP V.026 EDITORS NOTE: 

ITP'S author was born and raised in NEW YORK CITY. We've been WAITING 53 years for a NEW YORK KNICKS CHAMPIONSHIP ..After many losing seasons and the '94, '99 NBA FINALS  heartbreaks, THE NEW YORK KNICKS finally did it and won it all. Now I can die happy.   

Thank you JAMES DOLAN (KNICKS OWNER) and LEON ROSE (KNICKS PRESIDENT and of COURSE OG ANUNOBY, JALEN BRUNSON and HEAD COACH MIKE BROWN)... 

 #VILANOVACONNECTION 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM PETER BROUWER: 

 

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ESSAY: Trump vilifies cities. The Knicks redeemed them

Notes from a non-fan fan on a basketball contest that took on much greater meaning

by ANAND GIRIDHARADAS

Last night we stopped by Spike Lee’s block party in Brooklyn to celebrate the Knicks. Over here, Bad Bunny played on speakers mounted on top of a car. Over there, people smoked and generously offered blunts. New York was even more in love with itself than usual. Game was being spit, and maybe a little more welcomed than before. A cultural practice more common in other parts of the country — saying hi to people simply because you are passing them — has set in. Everyone now seems a Knicks fan.

The sudden universality of Knicks fandom has old-timers tskingly gatekeeping. They prowled the photos of the celebrities at games and asked: When did she become a Knicks fan? There are sneers about “transplants” from other parts of the country becoming fans right as victory neared, seeming to resent that the newcomers have cut the line of patient, long-suffering true fans.

I will confess to being perhaps the most recent Knicks fan of all. I am so recent a Knicks fan that I was surprised to learn about the silent “K.” I am so recent a Knicks fan that I thought Timothée Chalamet was the point guard. And, to be clear, it’s not specific to the Knicks. Though I’ve lived in New York most of my adult life and both of my children were born in the city, my relationship to basketball was forever marred by being picked last on school teams. If this sport doesn’t want me, then I don’t want it!

But then this whole thing happened. On the night of the finals, I found myself in Puerto Rico of all places, in a sports bar that was split 80-20 in favor of the Knicks, and I had become so possessed by fandom that I was directing most of my cheers to this couple nearby that was loudly whistling for the Spurs, and I kept screaming at them to “Remember Game 4,” as though I were some kind of keeper of the scrolls. And then last night I was somehow in a blue-and-orange jersey I fished out of my closet, and my children had Knicks-coded glitter smeared on their faces, and my son even painted one arm blue and the other orange, which made him look less like a basketball fan than someone staging a covert military advance in an artificially colored jungle.

So where do we fit in this frenzied fandom, we the non-fan fans, the fannies-come-lately? Why are we so moved? What are we cheering for, those of us who think a “pick and roll” is a kind of sandwich, a “lay-up” is a short nap, and an “alley-oop” is a sex act more commonly undertaken in Europe?

Here is one theory. In cheering for New York’s Knicks, we were also cheering for the Knicks’ New York. Rooting for a team that staged jaw-dropping comebacks is also rooting for a city whose raison d’etre is comebacks — second chances in a new nation, reinventions of the self, overcomings of odds. In relishing a team whose superpower is instinctual mutual knowledge, who know each other like kin even though they are not, we saw a reflection of the chosen families so many of us forge in New York. And in celebrating a team built not on the superstar model but that of the orchestra, we were standing up for the power of what emerges spontaneously from diverse groups, no matter what the autocrats will tell you.

To cheer for the Knicks’ New York is to stand up not only for New York but for the city in general, the idea of the city, an idea under threat in Donald Trump’s America. Cities like this, we are told, are not meant to work. Too much ethnic mixing, too much freedom, too much chaos, too much disorder, too many immigrants, too many genders, too many people on the edge’s edge.

And you have to admit, if you want to be fairminded, that there is no reason this should work. Let’s have eight million people jammed together in the smallest space possible, and let’s deprive most of them of amenities that people elsewhere take for granted, and let’s make it so expensive that even rich people feel poor, and let’s make people work at their edge so that everyone else has to work at their edge to keep up — if someone pitched you this idea as on “Shark Tank,” you might tell them it was nice of them to come in, you’ll call if interested.

And yet it works. Oh, how it works. You don’t end up with a housing crisis if no one wants to live there, after all. People want in on this place they can’t possibly afford. They are willing to submit to a poverty they could avoid elsewhere — for what, exactly? The intangible magic of these eight million other people, this assemblage of all the dreams from all the places, the thrill of living surrounded by so much trying. There is something incandescent about living around so many people who didn’t take the advice to do the easier, safer, known thing, who said no to the family occupation, said no to Iowa, said no to conversion therapy, said no to accounting as a backup.

Cities like this are also supposed to not work because of all the difference. You’ve got every race under the sun here, every country of origin, every religion that thinks the people who do not subscribe to it are going to hell or at least out of their mind, you’ve got your capitalists in their fleece vests, you’ve got your socialist mayor, you’ve got roots of many generations and transplants, you’ve got people whose people in other places would kill each other if they met each other, but here they will split a cab.

To scream and dance for the Knicks’ New York is to scream and dance for this, too — for the shouldn’t-work-but-does of it all. For the ennobling experience of sharing earth with those not your blood, for the faith in strangers that makes you choose them over your native village in Pakistan even before you purchase the flight ticket, for the knowledge that the helter-skelter, emergent brilliance of diverse people sharing space will always outshine and outlast those who declaim that they and only they can fix it.

Cities are facts. Countries are fictions. This I will defend to the death. I have walked the time-chewed ruins of Rome, the teeming riverbank of Istanbul, the shoulder-width lanes of Old Delhi. So many pretentious countries around each of them came and went. They were this empire, that empire, this totalism, that totalism, this national self-conception and that one. One day you’re the Roman Empire, overlording all. The next day, you’re a bunch of regions struggling to add up to something as big as mere Italy. Life comes at nation-states fast.

But cities endure. They endure because the people who are there are there for the other people, and this somehow lasts. They continue to congregate and pollinate and make shit and dance in the streets even as the countries around them cycle through follies and regimes and disastrous devaluations and ideological purges and pivots. Cities generally don’t declare thousand-year reiches or claim a century will be theirs. They don’t need to fake it till they make it. They know they will outlast so much of what surrounds them, because they have what nations can only envy: people who do not need a flag or a song or a recited pledge to feel they have need for each other.

But now New York has these Knicks. And so do I. And part of what we’re all cheering is the knowledge that what is happening here, what always has, will outlast the madness, the cruelty, the lack of imagination of those who fear the magic

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW:"CHASING HISTORY" 2026 NBA FINALS MOVIE (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NBA)

 

 

 

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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

SAIDAN : STREAMING NEW RELEASE "FANGDRILLER: SCARS BENEATH MEMORY'S WRIST" VIA BANDCAMP

 

Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. black metal warriors  SAIDAN, via BANDCAMP, are streaming  the bands anticipated debut release  "FANGDRILLER: SCARS BENEATH MEMORY'S WRIST",  unleashed 6/19/2026 via AVANTGARDE MUSIC..

 

 

 

 

 

 

: SAIDAN:NEW RELEASE "FANGDRILLER: SCARS BENEATH MEMORY'S WRIST" (VIA BANDCAMP,COURTESY OF AVANTGARDE MUSIC):  

 Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

EINHERJER: POST LYRIC VIDEO FOR "GONE"

 

Norwegian Viking metal warriors  EINHERJER have posted a lyric video for  "GONE", a track from  the bands anticipated new release  "LIFEBLOOD", unleashed 6/19/2026 via  BY NORSE MUSIC
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu!

 

 

 

   EINHERJER, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release  "LIFEBLOOD", unleashed 6/19/2026 via  BY NORSE MUSIC
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu!

EINHERJER have inked a record deal with  BY NORSE MUSIC as a new release is due summer 2026. 

EINHERJER, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new live release "NORSE AND DANGEROUS ( LIVE...FROM THE LAND OF LEGENDS)", unleashed 8/5/2022 via NAPALM RECORDS.


EINHERJER unleashed "NORTH STAR", 2/26/2021 via NAPALM RECORDS.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM EINHERJER: 

 "Lifeblood" by Einherjer is out now!

Listen and get your copy in the By Norse store:
https://bfan.link/lifeblood

 

 

  VIDEO BELOW: EINHERJER: "GONE" (VIA YOU TUBE,, COURTESY OF EINHERJER):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

CARBON TOMB: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "GOGOFFMAGOG"

 

 

 

 

Denmark based death metal warriors CARBON TOMB have posted a video for  "GOGOFFMAGOG", a track from the bands anticipated debut release "PASSAGE OF A NEUTRON STAR", due to be unleashed soon in 2026 (release date T.B.A.) via TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY RECORDS. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: CARBON TOMB: NEW TRACK "GOGOFFMAGOG" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY RECORDS):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

SAMAEL: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "HAIL TO THE SUN"

 

Switzerland blackened, industrial metal warriors SAMAEL have posted a video for  "HAIL TO THE SUN"  , a stand alone single, unleashed 6/19/2026  via NAPALM RECORDS.  

SAMAEL have posted a lyric video for "MOONSKIN" (LIVE) , a track from the bands anticipated new live release "PASSAGE",  unleashed 2/16/2024 via NAPALM RECORDS.

 SAMAEL unleashed "HEGEMONY",   10/13/2017 via NAPALM RECORDS. 

 

 

 

 FROM SAMAEL:

 

Check out S A M A E L’s new music video, ‘Hail to the Sun’!

‘Hail To The Sun’ is an anthem that will see you through the summer and keep you warm when winter comes. The song is about overcoming adversity and seizing life’s opportunities.

Video directed by : Grupa13

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: SAMAEL: NEW TRACK "HAIL TO THE SUN" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NAPALM RECORDS):  

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

DARK FUNERAL: SET TO UNLEASH "A BEAST TO PRAISE (LIVE AT FALLAN, STOCKHOLM)", POST VIDEO FOR "THE ARRIVAL OF SATANS EMPIRE" (LIVE IN STOCKHOLM)

 

Swedish black metal warriors DARK FUNERAL'S classic track  "OPEN THE GATES"  is featured in the movie  "PSYCHO KILLER"...  

DARK FUNERAL, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands 30th anniversary reissue of the bands classic debut release "IN THE SIGN OF THE HORNS",  re-unleashed 8/9/2024 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS. .

DARK FUNERAL unleashed  "WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE",  3/18/2022 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS.  

ITP V.022 REVIEW: DARK FUNERAL: "WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE",

https://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2022/04/itp-v022-review-dark-funeral-we-are.html

 

 

 

 

 

FROM DARK FUNERAL: 

 

A BEAST TO PRAISE

Some nights become immortal...

We are proud to announce the release of our new live album, "A Beast To Praise (Live at Fållan, Stockholm)", out worldwide on August 21, 2026 via Century Media Records.

Recorded in Stockholm during the release ritual for "We Are The Apocalypse", this album captures a very special moment in the history of Dark Funeral — our return to the stage after years of silence during the pandemic, and a night that became far more than just another concert.

Lord Ahriman comments:

"A Beast To Praise" captures a very important moment in the history of Dark Funeral — not only the live release ritual for We Are The Apocalypse, but also our return to the stage after years of silence during the pandemic. The energy in the room, the fire, the audience and the atmosphere all came together into something far beyond an ordinary concert. This release stands as the immortal document of that night."

Today we unleash the first single and video from the album: "The Arrival Of Satan's Empire"

Watch it now on YouTube and secure your copy of *A Beast To Praise* via the links in the comments.

As we prepare for our final selected festival appearances this summer, followed by our European tour with Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir this fall, this release serves as the closing chapter of the *We Are The Apocalypse* era.

At the same time, we are already deeply focused on the future and hard at work creating new material for the next Dark Funeral studio album.

And as one era ends, another is already taking shape — bigger, darker and more epic than ever before...

/ Dark Funeral

 

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: DARK FUNERAL: "THE ARRIVAL OF SATANS EMPIRE" (LIVE IN STOCKHOLM) (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS):  

 Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-