Album

Richards Bay, South Africa: black metal project Sinister Superstar returns with its first full-length album, Bipolar God. Bipolar God follows after two EPs, with the most recent being last years…

Algiers, Algeria: Death Metal reigns supreme in North Africa this month as Lelahell‘s long awaited second full-length album Alif arrives. Released on Friday, 15 June, Alif is delivered by Metal…

Gabarone, Botswana: Africa’s champion of old-school Heavy Metal returns with its fifth studio album, Skinflint. Following up 18 months after the previous album, Chief of the Ghosts, Skinflint delivered this…

  I went into listening to this self-titled debut album by Zimbabwe’s Dividing The Element with very few preconceptions – I mean, how many other metal bands sing in Shona?…

Harare, Zimbabwe: Using the recent Metal United World Wide series of shows, with Zimababwe also participating in the global event, Dividing The Element live-launched its debut album on 5 May.…

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: some music is hard to discover unless you’re looking in the right places. For Black Metal, mystery can be an endearing aesthetic; and such is the case…

London, United Kingdom: hold on! What is metal4africa doing snooping around in London? Well, the story of Temples On Mars – the UK-based progressive rock/metal band which released it’s debut…

Pretoria, South Africa: My Columbine releases its Ritual Violence album today. The roll-out is already under way whereby users of Google Play and iTunes can access it immediately. Services including…

Johannesburg, South Africa: it is here! Facing The Gallows released it’s debut full length album today, Dead Mindset. Dead Mindset follows two earlier EP releases including This Is Hate City…

Cape Town, South Africa: a piece of Cape Town metal history resurfaces today as Scarlet Host releases a brand new album, Black Days. The band, in fact, predates the existence…