black metal

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.

Check out the striking new music video from the Los Angeles-based “modern black metal” collected known simply as Øvi.

Get ensnared through progressive death/black metal from Cleveland crushers Paradox Rift.

Black metal duo Malguist get existential on “Apex to Ashes.”

Go wild with first-wave black metal/heavy metal trio Markgraf and their sophomore album, Hohenbaden.

LanzerRath drop a killer split with Shroud of Despondency coming May 10. You can stream the former’s weird and epic contribution “Nuclear Collapse: The Dissolution of Order and Meaning” below.

Two of avant-garde black metal’s exciting new voices have much to discuss.

According to Dutch black-metallers Verwoed, the band’s new album is “truly is a prayer of blood and fire.”

Black metal outfits Wormwitch and Sadistic Ritual combine forces on a new split.

The vocalist and guitarist of the NYC trio goes mask off about the influence of FromSoft’s gaming masterpieces.

Listen to Nocturnal Will, a one-of-a-kind album from Dödsrit, a musical entity that combines mourning and triumph in equal measure.

Get ready to face the music via a brand new video from Venezuelan black metal force Selbst.

Delve into the vast subconscious with the new album from the blackened-death metal masters in Karkosa, out this Friday!

What was left of them, anyway? Find out on Deadyellow‘s new album.

Mammoth Beard Company love their metal; we talked to co-founder Lee Palichuk to get some tips for the longhairs — and longbeards — out there.

Copies of Decibel Books’ Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult—Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition are in stock and shipping NOW!

Get crushed under the sonic weight of Spanish black/doom duo Pestilength in 126 seconds or less.