Norwegian Black Metal

Norwegian black metallers Enepsigos summon new track, “Confess,” from the bottom of the pit of Hell. Decibel bravely streams “Confess” as the world burns in response.

Norwegian black metallers Nattverd and Decibel unleash unholy hell on new track, “Slakt Dem,” the first track off new album, Styggdom.

Tickets for the 2020 Decibel Magazine Tour go on sale Friday, November 8 at 10 AM local time. More acts to be announced in December!

Pre-orders for forthcoming LP Daemon from the black metal godfathers also now available.  　   

Jam a new Darkthrone song from their forthcoming LP, Old Star.

Norwegian black metal mob Nordjevel prepare the world for new album, Necrogenesis. Streaming now in full at Decibel Magazine.

The Norwegian black metal duo return after four years of silence with a deadly new full length. Check out the exclusive stream here.

Norwegian black metallers Sjukdom stream new album, “Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer,” in full at Decibel.

We have a limited number of grim and frostbitten advance copies of the August issue of Decibel available now. Have at it!

Stream a song from the highly anticipated debut album by true Norwegian black metal torchbearers, Myrkraverk, featuring Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson now.

Immortal confirm they have completed work on their new album, due out via Nuclear Blast in 2018.

For this Friday the 13th Demo:listen we’re in a black metal bunker in Norway with Funeral Harvest.

On this week’s Demo:listen we’re lured off the beaten path and led deep into the dark woods by Norway’s Hedenvandret.

Emperor‘s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is a black metal classic, further cemented by its induction into Decibel‘s Hall of Fame. Now you can own the 20th anniversary Hall of Fame edition album on vinyl. 

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

Black Hole Generator get fast and evil on “Moloch.” 

Trolls and demons battle it out with mere mortals in this new video from Nordjevel.

Sons of Balour has had a presence in the Norwegian black metal scene since 1992, but it is finally time to hear the band’s debut album. 

“Everything is permitted.” Considering that’s Norwegian experimental collective Ulver‘s genre description, hindsight confirms it’s no surprise they strayed so dramatically from the black metal that shaped their earliest albums. Following the release of their 13th LP, vocalist Kristoffer Rygg shares his thoughts on the band’s evolution and his own artistic journey.

Ah, Mysticum, how you’ve been missed. There was so much talk for so long about the comeback album Planet Satan that we were convinced the record was either a myth or an elaborate troll. But no: Planet Satan was released this fall after decades of speculation, marking the return of a band audacious enough in…

A couple of weeks ago we told you that UK writer Dayal Patterson had finished off a 600-page history of black metal, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, a book that aimed to peel the corpsepaint off black metal’s sensationalist public image and look at how it started and how it got to where it…

We’re just not the types to go flocking to gallery openings and digest culture of a weekend but this is different. From 29th March to 29th April, the beyond-necro Neseblood Records are curating a black metal exhibition at Oslo’s Popsenteret, chronicling the history of black metal. Whether it is the extremity of the aesthetic or…