For those of you looking to catch up on black metal classics that came before 1992, go ahead and spin Fallen Angel of Doom, Ritual and Anno Domini, but be sure to make some time for this essential serving of darkness as well.

Our latest Primitive Origins examines the 1972 proto-prog-metal of Germans Night Sun.

Neill Jameson provides a protest idea to any musician wounded by Bandcamp’s plans to donate all of this Friday’s earnings to the ACLU. 

You have to give it to any band that has managed to play its first shows outside of its home country on the other side of the planet.

This year, Tuomas Saukkonen and Wolfheart return on Tyhjyys, to be released on March 3rd through Spinefarm Records.  Today we bring you the fourth track from the new record, called “The Flood.”

Crystal Fairy‘s lineup includes Buzz Obsorne and Dale Crover (The Melvins), Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (At the Drive-In, ex-The Mars Volta) and Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes). Find out more about the band before their self-titled album drops. 

German one-man black metal assault Front Beast goes full Profanatica with “Rape the Corpse of Christ,” from their third full length, Third Scourge from Darkness.

Finnish death metal heroes Demilich are the exclusive “bonus track” Hall of Fame in the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II book.

Listen to a track from Tight Fright’s pending debut Hotel Metal. 

“We’re making sludge through a death metal lens,” Moros drummer Jason Dost tells Decibel. “I can’t say we are a death metal band but the horror and savageness of that early death metal sound influences what we do for sure.” 

Happily, that proves to be a pretty goddamn spot-on self-assessment as one jams this seriously intense, head-turning Moros split with Black Urn  — a straight-up enigmatic-yet-primal nightmare translated into assaultive sound waves.