black metal

As the curtain closes on 2025, join us in requiem as we celebrate some of the year’s finest black metal releases.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Score an exclusive flexi featuring Morbikon covering Aura Noir, while supplies last!

Reformed black metallers Master’s Hammer continue their radical revolution on new LP Maldorör Disco. Czech it now, if you dare.

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

You’ve got until Friday, October 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of black thrashers Morbikon‘s cover of the Aura Noir classic ripper “Gaping Grave Awaits” is yours.

Hear New Jersey stalwarts Tombs return from the catacombs with Feral Darkness, a record that feels less like a “comeback” and more like a blood-moon ascension.

Black-thrashers Graveripper perform their own anthems to the welkin and tundra.

Lamp of Murmuur enter a new era with their latest single, “Reincarnation of a Witch.”

Hear the title track from the forthcoming full-length LP from USBM phenoms Cemetery Moon.

Black metal trio Wild Beyond refine their sound on their second offering, new EP Black Sites in Lower Chambers.

Check out the new song from Sweden’s Änterbila, you won’t be able to get it out of your head, and that’s a good thing!

Explore the cosmos with black metal duo Antihælix and their mind-bending new album.

Hear the freshly ground grindcore of Finland’s DEATHFUCKINGWOUND—written, recorded and launched in just over a month.

There are only a mere 90 copies of Lost Within the Astral Crypts, the new LP from blackened death crew Morbikon on Decibel-exclusive Crystal Clear colored vinyl.

Sometimes art demands seclusion without distraction, and that’s what inspired IATT to bring us their new song and video.

San Francisco post-black metal luminaries Ludicra unveil “In Stable” from their upcoming live digital album, a document of their triumphant hometown return at the Great American Music Hall.

Hear III, what we assume is the third full-length LP from psychedelic post-black metal duo Gates of Dawn.

Hear Kratornas‘s full-length album God of the Tribes (mastered by Dan Swanö, Edge of Sanity), a dramatic departure from previous works.

Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.

A conversation with Lepidus Plague, the unstoppable force behind the Australian one-man black metal campaign, Kommodus.

Cultic embrace the thrills of battle and high fantasy on newest offering “The Nomad.”

WATCH: Death dealers Undead wake up on the right side of the grave.

Hear The Old Lie, the debut from Denver-based blackened crusties Victim of Fire before its release on August 1.

Sadistic Force worship speed and Satan on their new offering.

Hear English post-black metal malcontents Ba’al drink deeply from the “Well of Sorrows” on their latest 11-minute single.

Melodic black metal outfit Cineastre embrace grim and frostbitten landscapes on their new song.

Experimental Irish black metal crew, Horrenda, issue remastered 2020 full-length, Dioltas, on vinyl for the first time.

Philly post-black metal crew Lástima debut a new song ahead of their first full-length album.

Louisiana- and Texas-based black metal shoegaze band vide just dropped their new EP, Decorated in spiderweb, on May 2. Check out their track-by track rundown of the release here.