black metal

Where there’s smoke, there’s black metal, and Italian ragers laCasta are engulfed in the acrid fumes of their new full length Olibanvm.

Scottish trio Tyrannus ride post-punk angst to a fiery black metal explosion on new track, “Flesh Eternal.”

You’ve got until Thursday, April 30 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of the first-ever official flexi disc from black metal progenitors Venom is yours.

Hear Toward Dead Temples, the forthcoming split release from Baltimore black metallers Nixil, and Portland black/death metal quartet Drouth

Swedish extreme metal multi-instrumentalist Oscar Rask returns with his death thrash project Since the Death and new album, Entangled.

The new album from Germany’s Evil Warriors burns like a ferocious blaze of all-consuming black metal fire.

Hear the melodic, folk-inspired black metal rage of Eveale on the title track, “Enter the Woodland Realm,” from their upcoming debut full-length.

Portland melodic black metal trio Old Moon reveal the title track and accompanying video to their new album.

Hear the collaborative performance by Dutch extreme bands Throwing Bricks and Ontaard on a special seven-song set they wrote and composed for Roadburn 2025.

Hear former Wake frontman Kyle Ball explore even darker sounds with his new black/death/noise project Lysergic.

lauks, the new album from Polish black metallers Varmia, is out March 27 via M-Theory Audio. You can pre-order it now, and hear the full stream with us.

Panopticon‘s new single “The White Cedars” feels especially evocative; a piece that races across mist-shrouded melancholy and rises to spiritual suspension. Hear it now.

Pre-order the new English translation of the official biography from German thrash legends Sodom exclusively via Decibel Books and read an excerpt now!

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!