AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BLACK HILL COVE — “INTO THE ABYSS”

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Nov 252025
 

(written by Islander)

Last year the Portuguese metal band Black Hill Cove released their second full-length, Ex Tenebris Vita, on Raging Planet Records, and now they’re following that up with a new single named “Into the Abyss”, which we’re premiering today along with its accompanying video.

On this new song the band collaborated with Norwegian drummer Tomas Myklebust as well as vocalist Ana Cristina Carvalho, who has appeared on previous Black Hill Cove releases. The band have also recently announced that Portuguese drummer Ricardo Oliveira has joined the band, reinforcing the lineup in preparation for upcoming live shows (more about that later in this feature). Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BLACK HILL COVE — “ETERNAL”

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Jul 152024
 

The first time we featured the music of Black Hill Cove at this site two years ago we described it as “bleak and furious”, “both emotionally and ‘physically’ bruising and battering”, with every ingredient seizing attention and collectively creating “a viscerally intense experience”.

At that time the music we focused on was from this Portuguese band’s powerful debut album Broken, an amalgam of hardcore, thrash, and sludge that was released by Raging Planet Records. Black Hill Cove and Raging Planet have followed up that album with a new one named Ex Tenebris Vita that they released in April of this year, and to help call attention to it we’re now premiering a video for a song off the album named “Eternal“. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BLACK HILL COVE — “ANGELS FALL”

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Feb 072022
 

 

Formed in 2020, right at the rise of a global pandemic, Black Hill Cove is a new Portuguese band composed of seasoned musicians from well-known acts in the Portuguese metal and hardcore scenes like Painstruck, Grankapo, and We Are The Damned. Drawing upon their varied influences, they recorded a debut album named Broken that was released last November by Raging Planet Records, which braided together in differing ways elements of hardcore, thrash, and sludge.

From that album the band have chosen a song called “Angels Fall” as the subject of a video that we’re premiering today. Created by Nuno Aguiar de Loureiro, the video presents a fast-moving collage of images that rivet attention and also mesh with the darkness and desperation of the music. Continue reading »