black metal

Iceland’s black metal scene has become one of the most prolific and accomplished in the world. The new book, “Svartmálmur,” presents a colorful snapshot of the illustrious Icelandic hordes.

We have a limited number of grim and frostbitten advance copies of the August issue of Decibel available now. Have at it!

Anonymous Portuguese black metal group Gaerea stream and discuss new album Unsettling Whispers.

Check out the first new track in three years from long-running Portuguese legion Black Howling now.

Stream the new album from blackened funeral doom practitioners Barren Altar now.

Veteran Greek black metallers premiere new controversial video for “Remnants of the Dark Testament.”

The groundbreaking singer and guitarist of Zeal and Ardor talks Billie Holiday, religion, politics, and the thinking behind his new album, ‘Stranger Fruit’

Seven Metal Inches documents three decades of extreme metal 7″ records.

Integrity and Krieg are teaming up this summer to give metallic hardcore and black metal audiences just what they need to invoke all shades of the whispering darkness.

Stream the new album from Ováte, featuring contributions from members of Taake, Gorgoroth and more.

Black metal newcomers Blood Worship leave a strong impression.

Swedish black metal depressionists Vanhelga premiere new track “Varde Mörker.”

Stream the new album from Russian ambient black/doom project In Tenebriz.

Stream the new album from Stortregn.

Rising USBM force Uada discuss their new album, Cult of a Dying Sun and the band’s growth since their 2016 debut.

Revisiting Master’s Hammer‘s much-maligned Slagry.

Norwegian black metallers Djevelkult stream new album “Når Avgrunnen Åpnes.”

Cosmic Church’s final encyclical is an endlessly immersive work of atmospheric black metal, delivered in a manner that retains the style’s essential rawness and power.

Watch a new video from Shylmagoghnar.

This week Demo:listen unearths the pestilential sounds of California’s Icon Of Curse.

Watch a new video from black ‘n’ rollers Acârash.

Stream a new song from one-person, atmospheric post-black metal outfit With the End in Mind now.

Stream a dark new song from blackened doombringers Abstracter now.

A profile of a group of musical entities from northwestern England, specializing in pure, raw black metal, all under the name Legions ov Darkness.

Ever thought of starting a band that took the best of late-90s black metal and gave it a modern sheen? Well, you’re too late, Aornos already did it.

Drown in the mirage with a hypnotizing new song from Anicon.

Stream the new album from black metal group Kyterion now.

Stream the first single from the new Skeletonwitch album now!

Stream the new album from melodic black metal legion Wormlight.

Dutch black metal philosophers Wesenwille match dystopian warnings with fiery discord on their I : Wesenwille debut.