black metal
Track Premiere: Noltem – “Figment”
August 20, 2021 Jon Rosenthal
Hear a new stunner form atmospheric black metal upstarts Noltem.
Full Album Stream: Woman is the Earth – “Dust of Forever”
August 19, 2021 Vince Bellino
Midwest post-black metal trio Woman is the Earth revel in nature and its power on new album Dust of Forever.
Track Premiere: Journey Into Darkness “Impossible Universe”
August 9, 2021 Chris Dick
Journey Into Darkness (ex-Sorrow) collapse into symphonic death-black metal on new track “Infinite Universe Infinite Death.”
Full Album Stream: Gorsedd FM – The Promise of Rot
August 6, 2021 Dutch Pearce
American post-punk/post-black metal duo Gorsedd FM cut a disarmingly good debut full-length with The Promise of Rot.
Track Premiere: Atra Haeresis – “The Sacred Games”
August 4, 2021 Sean Frasier
Black/death misanthropes Atra Haeresis will rip out your beating heart during the lyric video for their new single, “The Sacred Games.”
Full EP Stream: Bat Magic – “Feast Of Blood”
July 28, 2021 J. Andrew
Bat Magic, the first entity from the Ordo Vampyr Orientis black metal circle has emerged with its debut release for all raw devotees.
Album Premiere: Underdark – ‘Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry’
July 28, 2021 Sean Frasier
UK black metal revolutionaries Underdark shine brilliantly on their debut LP, Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry.
Full Album Stream: Craven Idol – “Forked Tongues”
July 21, 2021 Vince Bellino
Craven Idol‘s third album, Forked Tongues is the old-school extreme metal album you need.
Album Review: Craven Idol – ‘Forked Tongues’
July 19, 2021 Jonathan Horsley
British black/death immolators Craven Idol deliver Decibel‘s album of the week via Forked Tongues.
Video Premiere: Praise The Plague – “Beyond”
July 16, 2021 J. Andrew
Germany’s Praise the Plague is here with a new song and video filled with doom metal power and black metal gloom.
Album Premiere: Lykhaeon – Opprobrium
July 13, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Zürich-based chthonic black metal duo Lykhaeon cast black crushing doom against the gods themselves on their aptly titled visceral rebirth, Opprobrium.
Album Premiere: Unendlich – ‘Paradox of a Broken World’
July 7, 2021 Sean Frasier
Unendlich’s scythe-swinging riffs shape misery into majesty on the USBM project’s new LP, Paradox of a Broken World.
Album Premiere: Vampirska and Wampyric Rites – ‘The Drowning Void’
June 30, 2021 Sean Frasier
Black metal nightbeasts Vampirska and Wampyric Rites join forces to create the sanguinary split LP, The Drowning Void.
Video Premiere: Persekutor’s “Chained To the Tundra”
June 23, 2021 Justin Norton
Romanian/Los Angeles ice metal heroes Persekutor unveil their latest hedonistic video from last year’s Permanent Winter
Wolves in the Throne Room Grace the Cover of Decibel’s August Issue
June 23, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Pacific Northwest atmospheric black metal titans Wolves in the Throne Room return to the cover of the Decibel as the centerpiece of a USBM-heavy August issue.
Track Premiere: Krigsgrav – “The Sun No Longer Reaches Here”
June 21, 2021 J. Andrew
According to Krigsgrav, “The Sun No Longer Reaches Here,” is “bleak, but that’s what this music is all about.”
Track Premiere: Vouna – “Grey Sky”
June 18, 2021 Jon Rosenthal
Stream Vouna‘s monumental new track black doom track “Grey Sky.”
Full EP Stream: Waerloga “Liar / Enemy” 7-Inch
June 17, 2021 Chris Dick
Mysterious American black metallers Waerloga delight our mid-’90s black metal preferences with new EP, “Liar / Enemy.” Streaming now!
Track Premiere: Empress – “Libations”
June 16, 2021 Sean Frasier
Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”
EXCLUSIVE Wolves in the Throne Room – ‘Primordial Arcana’ LP Color! Pre-Orders Available NOW!
June 10, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Coming in at a scarce 250 units, the Black & Gold splatter on Bone White variant of Primordial Arcana comes on a standard weight record and is only available right here via the Decibel webstore.
Video Premiere: Wormwitch – “Abracadabra”
June 9, 2021 J. Andrew
According to Wormwitch: “this song is about creating as you speak; manifesting reality as you traverse the challenges of life.”
Album Premiere: Hatesong – ‘Chapel Rats’
June 2, 2021 Sean Frasier
Indianapolis blasphemers Hatesong release their LP of blackened pestilence, Chapel Rats. Rest in power, DV Karloff.
Full Album Stream: Stormruler – “Under the Burning Eclipse”
May 27, 2021 J. Andrew
For fans of fiery, energetic black metal in the tradition of Naglfar, Dawn and Setherial, Stormruler has the ultimate debut ready to strike!
Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times
May 24, 2021 Jon Rosenthal
Frost and Satyr get medieval on your ass as we induct Satyricon‘s landmark Norwegian black metal debut Dark Medieval Times.
Excavating “Mystical Extraction”: A Gonemage Track by Track
May 19, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Get ready for some 8-bit black metal dimension hopping courtesy Gonemage.
Track Premiere: Gallows – “Come and See”
May 14, 2021 J. Andrew
“We play traditional black metal — full stop. We wrote 66 Black Wings under the shroud of the pandemic, fueled by blasphemy and booze.”
Track Premiere: Our Place Of Worship Is Silence — “Disavowed, and Left Hopeless”
May 12, 2021 Shawn Macomber
The latest soot-encased blast from Our Place of Worship is Silence is anything but tranquil or hushed.
Video Premiere: Dordeduh – “Pândarul (live at Quantic)”
May 4, 2021 J. Andrew
According to Dordeduh: “This track links our black metal roots with the more progressive character of our new music.”
Track Premiere: Dawn Ray’d – ‘Wild Fire’
May 3, 2021 Vince Bellino
Anarchist black metal trio Dawn Ray’d spread their message like “Wild Fire.”
Video Premiere: Teloch Vovin – “A Dirge To The Death Ov Life, Love And Hope”
April 29, 2021 J. Andrew
Teloch Vovin‘s new track is a “a blackened doom epic,” with the video depicting “a night of total insanity and one’s total loss of control.”