black metal

Blackened death duo Impure summon hellfire with their sinister 7″ release of “The Carrion Feast” and “Into Cataclysm.”

Mysterious Scotland-based outfit Ifrinn ignite the black flame within on new track “Caledonian Black Magick.” Streaming in peaty black only at Decibel!

Set sail with Brooklyn’s Ghostbound on their newest nautical release, Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme.

Hear the latest from Svalbard frontwoman Serena Cherry’s Skyrim-themed black metal project, Noctule.

Germany-based black metal duo Kankar posit a crucially dark message on new album, Dunkle Millennia. Full album streaming in vanta black only at Decibel!

DC’s Myopic and the Baltimore, Maryland’s At the Graves joined forces to craft a collaborative effort that pushes, not only both projects’ respective sounds but their creative capacities as well

Experience Stortregn‘s heroic take on blackened-death metal on their new album, Impermanence, out on March 12.

New French & Siberian trio Isgherurd Morth shred an innovative and most strange black metal on their debut full-length. Hear Hellrduk in full now before its release Friday.

Blackened scumpunks Black Knife just released their homicidal LP, Murder Season. Founding vocalist/guitarist Hellwulv describes its fury track by track.

Stream the extremely wicked and shockingly evil debut from must-hear black-thrash newcomers Demiser.

Vreid‘s new track, “The Morning Red,” is “a blueprint of our eternal creative duality of melancholia and primal aggression.”

NYC black metal outfit Krallice blaze a new path on Demonic Wealth.

Polish black metallers Nekkrofukk summon the goat-demon on new doomy track “Devil’s Blood Injekktion.” Death and destruction streaming only at Decibel!

Wolf King take the path less traveled and embrace their extreme metal influences on their second LP.

Epic blackened doom wraithbringers Abigorum open hell’s gates with the lyric video for their new track, “Der geheimnisvolle Käfig.”

For the enigmatic sect, Koldovstvo, it’s bewitching black magic.

Nixil‘s new album is “a poetic attempt to relate to the unrelatable, a documentation of personal processes of initiation …”

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.