black metal

On this week’s Demo:listen we reconnect with an old friend to discuss their new triumph of black metal Hajduk.

Drastus‘ La Croix De Sang narrowly missed our albums of the year list, but that doesn’t mean this French black metal project haven’t released one of 2019’s must-hear albums.

Decoherence make black hole black metal on their anticipated debut full length, Ekpyrosis.

Recondite Irish black metal project Fuil na Seanchoille make an unexpected but most welcome return with The Crossing. Hear this single track opus in all its sprawling entirety right now.

Italian emigre Marco S. finds home in Sweden, birthing first-wave black metal beast Flamekeeper. Check out new track “Nomads of the World Beyond” from debut mini-CD We Who Light the Fire

The Decibel Magazine Tour celebrates its ninth annual run with the ambitious pairing of legendary Norwegian black metal progenitors Mayhem with their countrymates of black ‘n’ roll heroes Abbath. More acts revealed soon. Get tix now!

It’s time to add German act The Spirit to the anti-cosmic metal of death party. Listen to the first track from their forthcoming melodic black/death stunner here.

Diabolic Night infuse NWOBHM and speed metal with pitch-black infernal power on the new single from their Beyond the Realm LP, “In Retribution.”

Tickets for the 2020 Decibel Magazine Tour go on sale Friday, November 8 at 10 AM local time. More acts to be announced in December!

Swiss avant-garde black metal outfit Schammasch reveal new video for “A Paradigm of Beauty,” off new album “Hearts of No Light.”

Check out a track from new Dutch first wave black metallers Hellehond, featuring members of Asphyx and Wederganger.

Check out a video for a new track from underground black metal noise artists, T.O.M.B.

Vaultwraith play the Devil’s heavy metal. Stream their sophomore album in its entirety before it comes out this Halloween.

A curation of early material from the vampyric French plague Darvulia will soon be available on 12” vinyl. Hear the compilation in its accursed entirety now.

Baroque Swiss black metal duo Ateiggär set the empyrean ablaze with their debut release.

Minnesotan extreme metal unit Blackthorne just need a minute of your time.

Sanctvs is a demonic black metal anomaly from Québec. Their debut album Mors Aeterna is merely days away from taking the underground by storm. Check it out in its entirety first right here.

Misanthropic Germans Krater will soon release their fourth album. Hear them send “Stellar Sparks” flying with their three-guitar black metal attack on this exclusive track premiere.

Finland’s Black Beast will finally release their debut album. Approach this exclusive premiere of the title track with the utmost caution.

Montréal-based black metal quartet, Ossuaire, stream stunning new album, Derniers Chants, at Decibel Magazine on behalf of Sepulchral Productions.

Our favorite review-writing bird, covers his beak in corpsepaint and gets his feathers ruffled by some true-ish black metal.

German black metal cult Shrine of Insanabilis rip their sophomore album straight from the void Check out this smoking-hot ripper of a new song from the forthcoming Vast Vortex Litanies.

This week Demo:listen ventures into the deep underground to extract the Australian black metal atrocity Burier.

Atomic Cretins are suffering from “Spiritual Cancer.”

The great Obsequiae has returned to guide us through another series of castles and courtyards on “Ceres in Emerald Streams.”

Feast your eyes on international black metal duo Asagraum’s new video.

Nomenclature will be out September 27 via Black Lion Records on digipak CD and digitally, but we get the full thing for your lucky earholes right now.

Swedish black metal clan Patronymicon return with their first new work in six years. Stream Ushered Forth By Cloven Tongue in its blazing entirety now.

Decibel lists the Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums with Bishop of Hexen, Diabolical Masquerade, Anorexia Nervosa, Gehenna and SiriuS.

Enter an eternal autumn of moors and misty fields, walk through blackwater parks of rain without end, and look to the October rust as night shades descend.