black metal

Interview: Crowhurst Founder Jay Gambit Discusses New Album, Thorns

July 6, 2026

Crowhurst founder Jay Gambit announces and discusses the band’s new album and return from an extended hiatus.

Track Premiere: Bacht’n de Vulle Moane – ‘Verdwazing Der Dwazen (Min Erte Bloedt)’

June 24, 2026

Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.

Venom Reveal Exclusive Recording, “Nevermore (Full Length Version),” via the Decibel Flexi Series!

June 23, 2026

Acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from black metal progenitors Venom before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

Track Premiere: Agonanist – ‘Effacement’

June 18, 2026

Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.

ONLY 100 AVAILABLE! Pre-Order HULDER’s New Album ‘Verbolgen’ on Decibel-Exclusive Hardwood Color Vinyl!

June 12, 2026

There are a mere 100 copies of Hulder‘s new full-length LP, Verbolgen, on Decibel-exclusive Hardwood colored vinyl. Answer the call of the ancestral fires and forest spirits and pre-order now!

Digging Up Metal Fossils: A Prehistoric Metal Q&A With Fenriz of Darkthrone

June 2, 2026

The one-of-a-kind drummer, composer, and co-conspirator of Darkthrone talks to us about the new album Prehistoric Metal and where things might go from here.

Read How SODOM Recorded Their ‘Obsessed by Cruelty’ Debut LP In This Excerpt From ‘Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography’ Out Now!

May 29, 2026

Read an exclusive book excerpt from Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography turns the clock back 40 years to the genesis of the German thrash metal scene, and get a copy of the book, which is out TODAY!

Video Premiere: Windswept – “Cenote”

May 15, 2026

Wellington, New Zealand black metallers Windswept deliver “a lament that explores guilt, identity, and self-destruction. The feeling of weaving a sophisticated web of lies.”

Full Album Stream: laCasta –Olibanvm

May 6, 2026

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

Video Premiere: Tyrannus – “Flesh Eternal”

April 27, 2026

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

Venom to Release Exclusive Recording, “Nevermore (Full Length Version),” via the Decibel Flexi Series!

April 27, 2026

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.

Split Premiere: Nixil / Drouth – Toward Dead Temples

April 22, 2026

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

Full Album Stream: Since the Death –Entangled

April 20, 2026

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

Full Album Stream: Evil Warriors – “Evil Warriors”

April 10, 2026

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

Track Premiere: Eveale – “Enter the Woodland Realm”

April 8, 2026

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

Video Premiere: Old Moon – ‘Home to Nowhere’

April 7, 2026

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

Full Album Stream: Throwing Bricks & Ontaard –Something to Lose: Live at Roadburn 2025

April 6, 2026

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.

Streaming: Lysergic’s EP Towering Altars of Misanthropy

April 6, 2026

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

Full Stream: Varmia – ‘lauks’

March 25, 2026

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.

Track Premiere: Panopticon – “White Cedars”

March 25, 2026

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 SODOM: THE OFFICIAL AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, from Decibel Books; Read an Exclusive Excerpt Now

March 24, 2026

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

Video Premiere: Antihælix – ‘Snorting the Ashes of Dead Planets’

March 17, 2026

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

Track Premiere: Sura’sura – ‘Atomic Phalanx’

March 9, 2026

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

Video Premiere: Sisyphean – “In Divergence”

March 6, 2026

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

Full Album Stream: Fire Magic – Memories of Fire

March 5, 2026

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

Video Premiere: Transilvania – “Tuberculosis Reigns”

February 27, 2026

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

Track Premiere: Harboured – “Dead Ringer”

February 25, 2026

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

Album Premiere: Unmother – State Dependent Memory

February 19, 2026

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.