Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.

Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..

Catch the buzz on the Canadian mostly-solo avant grind project Neon Hiss.

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury completes the first quadrilogy of his instrumental/ambient/electronic solo venture Dark Sky Burial. Hear it now.

Metal & Beer Fest alumni KCBC (Kings County Brewers Collective) celebrate their fifth anniversary with a sour that just might get you, um, annihilated

Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”

Eternity’s End guitarist/chief songwriter Christian Münzner deep dives into the riff writing process for new song “Call of the Valkyries.”

The peckins are slim this time of year, but our boy Waldo takes on some cool reissues and some underground death metal.

Here are five great black metal albums that came out this year, featuring Hulder, Ninkharsag, Spectral Wound and more!

Did you totally blow it on Christmas shopping again this year? We’ve got your last-minute-ass covered with Decibel gift subscriptions and Decibel gift cards!