black metal

Hear the Goblin Reaper-lead Vredensdal return with the next step in their ongoing black metal evolution.

Fans of tongue-in-cheek horror and blackened power metal have a lot of reasons to be happy today, as Bulletbelt releases the theme song for “Deathgasm 2.”

Charm City blackgazers Stellar Rot rampage “Through the Eternity Stairs,” a frigid new track with melodic atmospherics.

Norwegian black metal-informed hardcore outfit Korrupt are “Waiting For the Sun,” but not the same sun the Doors were waiting for.

Check out Eternal Drak‘s new music video for “We Force It To Speak” from the band’s newly issued sixth album, The Violence of Time, which was released July 27.  

Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal today as Bury Them and Keep Quiet.

Maine prog-tech DM trio Shabti reveal complex and compelling new music on third full-length, Haze, Cacophony, and White Light.

New one-man black metal kult Encasement mete out a biblical beating on debut single, “Exodus.”

Crowhurst founder Jay Gambit announces and discusses the band’s new album and return from an extended hiatus.

Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.

Acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from black metal progenitors Venom before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.

Hail Dracula on a new Dragsholm song.

There are a mere 100 copies of Hulder‘s new full-length LP, Verbolgen, on Decibel-exclusive Hardwood colored vinyl. Answer the call of the ancestral fires and forest spirits and pre-order now!

The one-of-a-kind drummer, composer, and co-conspirator of Darkthrone talks to us about the new album Prehistoric Metal and where things might go from here.

Read an exclusive book excerpt from Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography turns the clock back 40 years to the genesis of the German thrash metal scene, and get a copy of the book, which is out TODAY!

German black-thrashers Witching Hour embrace their heavy metal side.

Wellington, New Zealand black metallers Windswept deliver “a lament that explores guilt, identity, and self-destruction. The feeling of weaving a sophisticated web of lies.”

Where there’s smoke, there’s black metal, and Italian ragers laCasta are engulfed in the acrid fumes of their new full length Olibanvm.

Scottish trio Tyrannus ride post-punk angst to a fiery black metal explosion on new track, “Flesh Eternal.”

You’ve got until Thursday, April 30 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of the first-ever official flexi disc from black metal progenitors Venom is yours.

Hear Toward Dead Temples, the forthcoming split release from Baltimore black metallers Nixil, and Portland black/death metal quartet Drouth

Swedish extreme metal multi-instrumentalist Oscar Rask returns with his death thrash project Since the Death and new album, Entangled.

The new album from Germany’s Evil Warriors burns like a ferocious blaze of all-consuming black metal fire.

Hear the melodic, folk-inspired black metal rage of Eveale on the title track, “Enter the Woodland Realm,” from their upcoming debut full-length.

Portland melodic black metal trio Old Moon reveal the title track and accompanying video to their new album.

Hear the collaborative performance by Dutch extreme bands Throwing Bricks and Ontaard on a special seven-song set they wrote and composed for Roadburn 2025.

Hear former Wake frontman Kyle Ball explore even darker sounds with his new black/death/noise project Lysergic.

lauks, the new album from Polish black metallers Varmia, is out March 27 via M-Theory Audio. You can pre-order it now, and hear the full stream with us.

Panopticon‘s new single “The White Cedars” feels especially evocative; a piece that races across mist-shrouded melancholy and rises to spiritual suspension. Hear it now.