black metal

A year is just a year. But oh what a year it was: Death, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Bathory, Sodom, Anthrax and more!

On this week’s Demo:listen we usher in the end of it all with Mälmo’s Ultra Silvam.

Black Lion Records have released a number of impressive death, black and doom metal albums recently. Check out some of the best.

The Doctor is in. Anything involving black metal convention is out. 

Feel Abduction‘s cold wave of depressive black metal on their new release. 

Chaos reigns as Turkish black metal veterans The Sarcophagus travel Beyond This World’s Illusion on their new LP.

Witches Brew provide a home for underground death, thrash and heavy metal bands.

Hope Attrition
Answer the unending call (won’t go to voicemail)
dB rating: 8/10

A creative and innovative life cut short.

Blackened thrash trio All Hell deliver a new song from their forthcoming The Grave Alchemist. 

Darkness and fire are coming in this music video for “Mylder.”

Stream ORM‘s epic debut full-length now.

Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous embark on the sixth annual Decibel Magazine Tour starting TODAY. Got tickets? 

A new Carach Angren album is on the way! Listen to first track, “Song for the Dead” now.

“Praying at the Chapel Perilous” is the promising debut song and video from dark metal band Sollertia (In The Woods, ex-Ad Inferna). 

Obsidian Arc
Vision quest
dB rating: 8/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Pallbearer, Ascended Dead and Axebreaker.

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.