black metal

Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”

A look into history with riffs, solos and screams.

Next week we get Dodecahedron’s brand new exercise in high-concept dissonance via Kwintessens, due out March 17 on Season of Mist.  We conducted a little Q&A with guitarist/songwriter Michel Nienhuis and vocalist Michiel Eikenaar, much of which can be found in issue #150 (Decibel Tour cover), but you can read the remainder of the interview here.

Antihedron is Devouring Star’s excellent follow up to 2015’s Through Lung and Heart. 

Get pummeled by “Survival,” the first taste of Succumb‘s debut on The Flenser.

East Coast rule-breakers Sloth Herder play “power-slob” the way your three-toed uncle likes it: Dirty, mean, and LOUD.

Formed in Krakow, Poland in 2010, Medico Peste aren’t your typical run of the mill black metal offering. Neither Scandinavian, Germanic, French, or British, the Poles have tapped into a sound that’s altogether alien and uninviting. Like the darkest dark.

Hope
Black metal change you can believe in
dB rating: 8/10

Black metal is doomed. Order a deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, February 27 and get this one-of-a-kind Crypt Sermon flexi featuring an exclusive new recording. 

Rebel Wizard‘s unique sound, self-described as “negative metal,” is an unholy marriage of black, thrash and power metal with a healthy dose of NWoBHM thrown in. Stream their album Triumph of Gloom in full now. 

There have been a handful of occasions when the beast rises out of the Lonestar State. From Absu and Divine Eve to Rigor Mortis and Devastation, the great state of Texas has produced some of the genre’s most intense acts. That tradition carries on with Laredo-based Venereal Baptism. Certainly, with a name like Venereal Baptism, there are only a few paths on which to tread. Brutal death metal, goregrind (sadly, this is still a thing), and black metal. Well, out of Laredo’s diseased womb Venereal Baptism is delivered to the iniquitous world of black metal.

Avant-garde black metal outfit Fjoergyn have unveiled a video for the title track off their upcoming record, Lucifer Es. 

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest performers Falls of Rauros debut new track from forthcoming LP Vigilance Perennial.

Losing a loved one can rearrange one’s whole world, an idea Woe are forced to grapple with on “The Ones We Lost.” 

Moloch‘s out of print black metal album Verwüstung will be rereleased in a remastered for vinyl format by Argento Records. Hear the improved songs now.

Cold Fell embody a desolate and violent spirit inspired by the part of Northern England which they call home on “Bone Ceiling.”

Come hear the new black metal burner from Inferno while it’s hot!

Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10

Shade Empire have revealed the first song from their upcoming album, which remains nameless, accompanied by a powerful and cold music video.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we explore the remote and radiant dreamrealm evoked by Chile’s Praecognitvm.

Fen have refined their brand of atmospheric black metal on the first piece of their latest album, Winter. 

Dimmu Borgir’s mainstream metal breakthrough crashes the Decibel Hall of Fame this month.

Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds today to the ACLU in the continued fight for human rights around the world. Here are 5 releases to consider purchasing today. 

Curse of Denial brings original blackened death. 

Want a chance to partake in a meet and greet with Mayhem? Find out more here. 

If there’s one black metal album that changed black metal—in almost every respect—it’s Dimmu Borgir’s Death Cult Armageddon.

Hellenic occultists Disharmony return after a nearly twenty year hiatus to unleash Goddamn the Sun upon our unsuspecting asses, and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek with grand leveler “The Gates of Elthon.”

The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Synarchy in the EU
dB rating: 8/10

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

Patria have unveiled a beautiful lyric video to go with their song “Axis.”