black metal

Get high on the remains of dead planets with black metal duo Antihælix.

Assemble in the “Atomic Phalanx” led by Sri Lankan war metal force Sura’sura.

Sisyphean‘s video for “In Divergence” provides no frills and no nonsense, just pure blackened-death metal ferocity.

Fire Magic‘s Memories of Fire provides an expert-level execution of melody and a relentless wave of aggression in equal measure.

The new track from Transilvania is “a relentless surge of sound where suffocating riffs mirror the contagion of fear.”

Hear the new single, “Dead Ringer,” from Denver post-black metal trio Harboured, featuring members of Allegaeon and Oak, Ash & Thorn.

London-based black metal quartet Unmother return with their new full-length album, State Dependent Memory. Hear in it before its February 20 release via Fiadh Productions.

Graufar return with the third single from their upcoming full-length, Via Necropolis, steeped in blackened death metal ferocity with a slow-burning sense of dread.

Sadistic Force have a need for speed.

Hear the the two-decades-in-the-making debut EP, In Forests Eternal from dark atmospheric metallers Bergtagen.

Symphonic black metal artist Daidalos has shared his latest single “Euphobia.” The track appears on his forthcoming full‑length, Dante, out February 20.

Ontario/Quebec black metal duo COGADH unleash their debut full-length, Kingmaker, on March 6. But today we premiere the video for single “Cromwell’s Curse”

Hear the debut EP from blackened hardcore whirlwind Salt Divination, featuring Converge’s Ben Koller on session drums.

Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.

As the curtain closes on 2025, join us in requiem as we celebrate some of the year’s finest black metal releases.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Score an exclusive flexi featuring Morbikon covering Aura Noir, while supplies last!

Reformed black metallers Master’s Hammer continue their radical revolution on new LP Maldorör Disco. Czech it now, if you dare.

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

You’ve got until Friday, October 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of black thrashers Morbikon‘s cover of the Aura Noir classic ripper “Gaping Grave Awaits” is yours.

Hear New Jersey stalwarts Tombs return from the catacombs with Feral Darkness, a record that feels less like a “comeback” and more like a blood-moon ascension.

Black-thrashers Graveripper perform their own anthems to the welkin and tundra.

Lamp of Murmuur enter a new era with their latest single, “Reincarnation of a Witch.”

Hear the title track from the forthcoming full-length LP from USBM phenoms Cemetery Moon.

Black metal trio Wild Beyond refine their sound on their second offering, new EP Black Sites in Lower Chambers.

Check out the new song from Sweden’s Änterbila, you won’t be able to get it out of your head, and that’s a good thing!

Explore the cosmos with black metal duo Antihælix and their mind-bending new album.

Hear the freshly ground grindcore of Finland’s DEATHFUCKINGWOUND—written, recorded and launched in just over a month.

There are only a mere 90 copies of Lost Within the Astral Crypts, the new LP from blackened death crew Morbikon on Decibel-exclusive Crystal Clear colored vinyl.

Sometimes art demands seclusion without distraction, and that’s what inspired IATT to bring us their new song and video.