black metal

British avant-garde black metallers Lychgate unlock new album, The Contagion in Nine Steps. A new Q&A with Vortigern.

Varathron‘s Patriarchs of Evil is our Best New Noise.

Stream a new song from Verwoed ahead of their Roadburn performance.

Austin Lunn has always been bold. On his latest double-album release, Panopticon’s various elements are allowed to truly soar to the heights of their black metal, post-rock, country and folk glory.

Swedish cultists Craft redefine black metal on new track, “The Cosmic Sphere Falls.”

Check out the lyric-video for “Vedestä Vieraantunut,” from Finland’s own Vermilia.

Black metal outfit Svederna take aim at western civilization on their latest release.

Stream the first song from Wilt‘s atmospheric new album, Ruin.

There’s a lot of atmospheric black metal out there these days. But Germany’s Eïs rises above glut by retaining the ferocity of the second-wave sound.

Next week sees the release of The Apostates, the seventh album by Parisian black metal shapeshifters, Glorior Belli, a band with a history reaching back over 15 years when they came to life as a Norwegian worshipping whirlwind. With time has come change as band leader Billy Bayou – also known by the less swampy…

Athens, Greece power duo Nigredo brings the danger with its dark, diverse take on dissonant black metal.

There are five separate ticketed events related to Decibel Metal & Beer Fest. Here’s our official guide to what goes down when.

Stream the latest from Canadian melodic black metal band Strigampire.

As a small Leviathan-affiliated record store and screenprinter are being forced out of Portland due to rising rent. Jef Whitehead and Stevie Floyd explain the importance of record stores in 2018.

Portuguese blackened death metallers Scarificare scare with new track “Occult Radiance.”

Stream a new song from experimental sludge group Scientist.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson recounts another round of instances in which black metal was falsely pronounced dead.

Stream an unreleased song from Imperial Triumphant.

Wild Hunt announce a new album and debut its title track.

Watch a new video from Swedish black-thrash trio Siniestro.

Stream the first song from Wolvhammer‘s The Monuments of Ash & Bone.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson recounts various times throughout history when black metal was falsely pronounced dead.

Check out the new split with Crawl and Leviathan for two equally horrifying takes on humanity’s nightmares.

Stream a new Strigampire song now.

Watch a new Thy Antichrist video now.

Swedish black metal upstarts Avslut issue dire warning on new album, “Deceptis.”

Australian blackened war machine Nocturnal Graves fires off an unholy bullet with new song “Ecdysis, Shedding Weak Flesh.”

Stream the first single from French black metal horde Abduction‘s new album.

Stream Hammr’s debut full length now for some Satanic speed metal violence.

Stream the new album from highly-experimental black metal entity Arkheth now.