Symphonic Black Metal

Pre-Order MORBIKON’s Debut LP, ‘Ov Mournful Twilight’ & Hear a New Song RIGHT NOW!

September 13, 2022

We got 100 copies of Morbikon‘s debut LP on Black & Silver split colored vinyl, which is accompanied by an exclusive Pull The Plug Morbikon patch that you can’t get anywhere else!

Video Premiere: Ceremonial Castings – “Midnight Deathcult Phenomena”

January 10, 2022

Watch recently resurrected symphonic USBM powerhouse Ceremonial Castings (ft. members of Uada) honor their 25th anniversary with a re-recorded classic.

Track Premiere: Ateiggär – ‘En Blinde namens Duracotus’

October 18, 2019

Baroque Swiss black metal duo Ateiggär set the empyrean ablaze with their debut release.

Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums

September 23, 2019

Decibel lists the Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums with Bishop of Hexen, Diabolical Masquerade, Anorexia Nervosa, Gehenna and SiriuS.

Full Album Stream: Netherbird – ‘The Ghost Collector’

May 3, 2017

Netherbird‘s debut album, 2008’s The Ghost Collector, will be re-released through Black Lodge Records.

Label Spotlight: Black Lion Records

April 4, 2017

Black Lion Records have released a number of impressive death, black and doom metal albums recently. Check out some of the best.

Track Premiere: Carach Angren – ‘Song For The Dead’

March 15, 2017

A new Carach Angren album is on the way! Listen to first track, “Song for the Dead” now.

Belgian Symphonic Black Metallers Saille Birth Giants With “Benei ha’Elohim”

February 14, 2017

Nearly ten years since its inception, high-concept Belgian brutalizers Saille bring down the fire with their fourth album, Gnosis, to be released through Code666 Records on March 13th.  Today we bring you a lyric video for the record’s opening track, “Benei ha’Elohim.”

Track Premiere: Shade Empire – ‘Anti-Life Saviour’

February 10, 2017

Shade Empire have revealed the first song from their upcoming album, which remains nameless, accompanied by a powerful and cold music video.

Dimmu Borgir – “Death Cult Armageddon”

January 26, 2017

If there’s one black metal album that changed black metal—in almost every respect—it’s Dimmu Borgir’s Death Cult Armageddon.

Emperor – “Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk”

June 6, 2016

The grandiose, striking and remarkable rush forth mere minutes into Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk’s prologue “Alsvartr (the Oath).” Nightmarish berceuses haunt mercilessly from the darkest corners of imagination, while frontman Ihsahn poetically invokes the illustrious nightspirit, as if there’s ordinary business in need of attending on the edge of town.