black metal

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.”

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.

According to Wormwitch: “this song is about creating as you speak; manifesting reality as you traverse the challenges of life.”

Indianapolis blasphemers Hatesong release their LP of blackened pestilence, Chapel Rats. Rest in power, DV Karloff.

For fans of fiery, energetic black metal in the tradition of Naglfar, Dawn and Setherial, Stormruler has the ultimate debut ready to strike!

Frost and Satyr get medieval on your ass as we induct Satyricon‘s landmark Norwegian black metal debut Dark Medieval Times.

Get ready for some 8-bit black metal dimension hopping courtesy Gonemage.

“We play traditional black metal — full stop. We wrote 66 Black Wings under the shroud of the pandemic, fueled by blasphemy and booze.”

The latest soot-encased blast from Our Place of Worship is Silence is anything but tranquil or hushed.

According to Dordeduh: “This track links our black metal roots with the more progressive character of our new music.”

Anarchist black metal trio Dawn Ray’d spread their message like “Wild Fire.”

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.”

“Even in the darkest of times, when every day feels like yet another goddamn punishment, just try to move forward and search for the light.”

Hear German riffmongers Hvrt bring the… well, you know, on their latest slab of blacked doom sludge.

Norwegian duo Phantom Fire, featuring members of Gaahls Wyrd and Aeternus, boogie into darkness like Venom, Bathory, and early Metallica. New EP streaming only at Decibel!

Check out Odal’s latest work, dealing with “nature, life and death, striving, and transience with reference to the old, pagan world of gods.”

“The black wanderers continue their journey through the Nordic wonderland from bright, snow-covered, frozen lakes into the darkness …”

Kosmodemonic has arrived with a new video from their latest album, Liminal Light, due out on May 7 via Transylvanian Recordings.