black metal

Canadian black metal trio Crystal Coffin summon nuclear fallout on new track “The Starway Eternal”. Streaming grimly only at Decibel!

This week Demo:listen gets the full scoop on Hymns of the Woodland, the debut full-length recording from new USBM duo Grot.

Get ready for Alghol’s forthcoming reign with this exclusive premiere of The Osseous Key, the debut full-length from the Maine-based one-man black metal band.

France-based black/folk metal outfit Paydretz turn to history on new track “Colonnes Infernales.”

Listen to an exclusive stream of Ng’ambu and pick up a copy of it now ahead of its release this Friday through Gilead Media.

Black/death duo Veilburner revel in dissonance on their new single.

Dutch black metal duo Iskandr interpret 15th Century agrarian visionary traditions on stunning new track “Verbod.” Streaming at Decibel now!

The ultimate treat for your weekend: new releases and reissues from Iron Maiden, Internal Bleeding, Behemoth and more!

Australian avant garde black metallers Norse bring the strange dissonant fire on “Zero Insight.”

Wolf King release a live session from California studio Rapture Recordings.

Germany’s Nocturnal returns with a album full of “Teutonic unholy thrash metal,” in all its raw, riff-powered glory.

Hear a new stunner form atmospheric black metal upstarts Noltem.

Midwest post-black metal trio Woman is the Earth revel in nature and its power on new album Dust of Forever.

Journey Into Darkness (ex-Sorrow) collapse into symphonic death-black metal on new track “Infinite Universe Infinite Death.”

American post-punk/post-black metal duo Gorsedd FM cut a disarmingly good debut full-length with The Promise of Rot.

Black/death misanthropes Atra Haeresis will rip out your beating heart during the lyric video for their new single, “The Sacred Games.”

Bat Magic, the first entity from the Ordo Vampyr Orientis black metal circle has emerged with its debut release for all raw devotees.

UK black metal revolutionaries Underdark shine brilliantly on their debut LP, Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry.

Craven Idol‘s third album, Forked Tongues is the old-school extreme metal album you need.

British black/death immolators Craven Idol deliver Decibel‘s album of the week via Forked Tongues.

Germany’s Praise the Plague is here with a new song and video filled with doom metal power and black metal gloom.

Zürich-based chthonic black metal duo Lykhaeon cast black crushing doom against the gods themselves on their aptly titled visceral rebirth, Opprobrium.

Unendlich’s scythe-swinging riffs shape misery into majesty on the USBM project’s new LP, Paradox of a Broken World.

Black metal nightbeasts Vampirska and Wampyric Rites join forces to create the sanguinary split LP, The Drowning Void.

Romanian/Los Angeles ice metal heroes Persekutor unveil their latest hedonistic video from last year’s Permanent Winter

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.

According to Krigsgrav, “The Sun No Longer Reaches Here,” is “bleak, but that’s what this music is all about.”

Stream Vouna‘s monumental new track black doom track “Grey Sky.”

Mysterious American black metallers Waerloga delight our mid-’90s black metal preferences with new EP, “Liar / Enemy.” Streaming now!

Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”