black metal

Listen to “Exceed in2 Chaos,” the title track from the new album from long-running Norwegian black metal outfit Sarkom.

Watch San Francisco’s Embrium go dark via post-black metal in their video for “Eclipse”

From the intersection of gallows and grind comes Galgeberg, a death metal trio that delivers the perfect antidote to our modern chaos.

It’s been a glorious year for black metal, with essential releases from bands like Departure Chandelier, Spectral Wound, Saidan and more!

Hear Bindrune Recordings once again bring black metal’s raw spirit to life with By the Grace of Death, the fourth full-length offering from Minnesota’s atmospheric purveyors Canis Dirus.

Stream the newly-released album from Swedish black metal band Fatal Embrace, originally recorded in 1998.

Erik Wunder, the enigmatic figure behind the Colorado-based solo project Man’s Gin (as well as acclaimed USBM force Cobalt), on his latest sonic offering, The Reprobate

Explore the “the gratuitous absurdity of life” with the new video from Vosforis, a UK-based black metal outfit.

Presenting a new emanation from the Ordo Vampyr Orientis, known for mysterious acts such as Bat Magic, Bad Manor and Beastial Majesty. Today’s bloody devilry comes courtesy of Beneath Moonlight.

Stream a new EP from Slovenian black metal duo Snøgg.

Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from Greek black metallers Yoth Iria before the discs are sold out for good!

Copies of Decibel Books’ Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult—Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition are in stock and on sale for a limited time only!

Italian horrorist Selvans unveils “ll Mio Maleficio V’incalzerà!,” the second single off Saturnalia, his new album due for release in 2025 via Avantgarde Music

Greek pagan black metalers Eldingar want World Peace Now! on new long player Lysistrata.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Thursday, October 31 at noon ET to secure this extremely exclusive flexi disc from Greek black metal occultists Yoth Iria!

Check out Greek black metallers’ Yoth Iria‘s new video for “In the Tongue of Birds,” off their upcoming album Blazing Inferno!

Ayloss of Spectral Lore and Mystras returns with the third album of epic thrash mixed with atmospheric elements of dark black metal as Auriferous Flame.

Out Against the Law? Aris Hunter Wales, drummer of black thrashers Bewitcher, on how the band almost became true outlaws recently on tour.

We catch up with longtime Decibel photographer Hannah Verbeuren and discuss her new book, Midnight: A Thousand Nights in Sodom out now via Bazillion Points.

Aussie avant black/death metal fiends Ploughshare offer up nine minutes of well-constructed cacophony on new single, “Fall of All Creatures.”

Stream the pitch black cover of “Theme of Laura (Reprise)” ahead of the album’s release.

Philly extreme metal crew Distant Dominion (feat. members of Krieg, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, etc.) debut new song “Solar Flare Tsunami.”

New Zealand is home to some of the most ferocious and feral metal on the planet, and Ifrit is no exception to this legacy of brutality.

Grecian black metal trio Ignominous emerge from the shadows with the the title track from the upcoming debut album Dawn With No Light.

If you dig the idea of grindcore and powerviolence and poking fun at black metal, Rat Lord are gonna be your new favorite band.

The über-talented multi-instrumentalist happily screen shares his lifelong passion of gaming.

USBM project Dusk Shrine unleash the stunning “Torn Forest” from their forthcoming Celestial Trauma LP.

In which Krieg’s frontman focuses on Prayer Position, Black Sorcery, Gates of Dawn and the latest rising wave of American Black Metal.

Check out “Pagan Fires,” from Burial Oath, featuring members of gothic-tinged U.S. black metallers Cloak.

Check out the debut album from Tampa’s Torturers’ Lobby, with a sound that joins death, black, and thrash metal for a crushing combination.