black metal

Check out Ascendant Blasphemy, the debut from Canuck black metallers, Plague Weaver

Les Chants du Hasard marry black metal and opera.

Polish hostiles Upon the Altar release their debut LP of devastating blackened death, Absid ab Ordine Luminis.

Decibel bestows wisdom in our latest Top 5 Cosmic Black Metal Albums, featuring Kaon, Lumnos, Mesarthim, Offenbarung and Darkspace. Revolutions in celestial death are infinite.

Gaerea‘s anonymous founder gets in depth about the band’s inner workings and planning their upcoming Gimme Radio livestream.

Wintherr is ready to unleash another storm of cold black metal brilliance! Check out “Bluet” from Paysage d’Hiver‘s upcoming album.

In which Neill Jameson reconsiders Darkthrone‘s 1999 “comeback” Ravishing Grimness.

Little Turtle’s War, the new album from indigenous solo black metal mission Pan-Amerikan Native Front is streaming in full here, with exclusive insight from Kurator of War of PANF himself.

Introducing Umbral Twilight and their entrancing and mysterious demo, Bleeding Alchemic Talisman.

Swedish black metal speed freaks Reaper return with a new track from their upcoming sophomore album The Atonality of Flesh.

Belgian black metal outfit Alkerdeel stream new single “Eirde” on the eve of the release of new LP, Slonk.

Because we’re not even a full month into 2021 and there is still music to discover. And because you can’t get enough goddamn lists, here are 35 more from 2020 to chew on.

The Ruins of Beverast emerge from the fog of a new year with their sixth LP of cerebral blackened doom, The Thule Grimoires.

Conflagracion cast fiery black metal spells on their debut EP Luciftias. Hear the first song to be unveiled from this Central and South American-based duo right now.

Panopticon ask listeners to “Know Hope” on their latest single.

Hear a powerful new track of crushing black metal off the forthcoming sophomore album from Australian anomaly Spire.

Blut Aus Nord mastermind Vindsval takes a more straightforward approach to black metal with Forhist.

Polish black metal unit Varmia pay tribute to their roots with new song “Upperan.”

An exclusive full album stream of the latest onslaught of bestial bedlam from devout Portuguese black metal cult Satanize.

Molten Chains, one of the most extraordinary new bands in the metal underground, on sophomore album Torment Enshrined, which blends heavy metal, prog, black and death, Shakespearean themes and sorcerous vocals into one mind-blowing sound.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the March issue of Decibel, featuring our an exclusive new flexi disc single from Swedish death/thrash kings the Crown.

Greek black metal cult Caedes Cruenta offer up the potent single, “Recitation of Abyssic Necropsalms” in preparation of the release of their forthcoming powerful third album, Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults.

This week’s Demo:listen follows the trail of USBM nightcrawler Saidan.

Dutch black metallers Kjeld spear the light with new track “Betsjoend” off their upcoming full-length Ôfstân Darkness only at Decibel!

One-man black metal project Violet Cold transcends genre boundaries.

Sink your fangs into the morbid majesty of Of Sleep and Death, the furious new LP from Austrian black metal nightbringers Transilvania.

USBM’s new sovereigness Hulder slays unholy black metal and sings for the people on the latest single from her forthcoming debut album Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry.

Watch an artsy new video from blackened sludge unit Witching.

Australian black metallers EOS emerge from the shadows on new track, “The Great Ascension.” Only black metal is real at Decibel!

This week’s edition dives deep into the dark caverns of 2020 to reveal five of this year’s best black metal releases!