black metal

Los Angeles black metal duo Vaamatar curse this week’s Demo:listen.

Danish black/death trio Ascendancy will soon release their new mLP. Hear and feel Birth of an Eternal Empire in all its power and glory right now.

Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre director talks drive-in movies, Evil Dead, releasing a movie in a pandemic and the time he saw Randy Blythe light a man on fire in a parking lot.

Texas black metal crew Skeleton will get your bones shaking.

The latest release from Nocturnal Departure is a raw, unpolished, but thoroughly brutal and melancholic blast of fire and darkness.

This week’s Demo:listen helps to spread the fearsome and powerful sorcery of Seattle black metal duo Kurse Relic.

The true spirit of metal is alive and well in the heart of Italy’s one-woman old school black/doom metal band Marthe. Hear her demo Sisters of Darkness in all its awesome glory right now.

Get to know one of the most unique bands in modern black metal with this full album stream of À Contre Vent, the new full-length from Montreal’s Allelic.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the August issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Necrot flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

Nachtmystium, the on-again/off-again U.S. black metal act fronted by guitarist/vocalist Blake Judd, is officially over once more.

Hear Oakland black/death dealers Ulthar deliver their sophomore LP Providence in full a day ahead of its release on 20 Buck Spin

The Norwegian melodic black metal Vreid outfit announce their upcoming stream live from the fjords of their homeland this Saturday, June 13th at 3 PM EDT.

Melodic U.S. black metallers Uada unleash their first new track from their forthcoming album Djinn.

Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Rapper Ghostemane goes full black metal.

This week’s featured set of new releases includes entries from epic practitioners like Atavistia and Sorcerer, along with crushers like Xibalba.

Black Altar know the devil is everywhere. See for yourself.

Like columns of black smoke reaching for the heavens, USBM suffocationists Luctum demonstrate their “Theriomorphic Divinations” on this latest track reveal from their forthcoming debut full length Ashes of the Titans.

This week’s featured new releases include albums from Cauldron Black Ram, Esoctrilihum, along with some hardcore and deathy NWOBHM-style jams!

This week Demo:listen captures the dawning of Ages of Blood, a new Argentinian medieval black metal stronghold.

Symphonic black metal horror hounds Carach Angren deliver the ghoul time with Franckensteina Strataemontanus.

Three days before its official release, weird German black metallers Hexenbrett reveal their highly anticipated, forthcoming full-length in its entirety.

It’s no Angels of Meth, but Decibel is still stoked to jam the first new Persekutor track in five years. Vlad the Inhaler fills in the detailings.

This week’s Demo:listen gets bludgeoned and dragged deep into the wastelands of Oz by savage black metal cretins Hinterkaifeck.

Check out this exclusive premiere of the furious and unorthodox fouth album from French black metalists Neige Morte.

Salvadoran misanthropes Conceived by Hate lure listeners to a haunted graveyard in their ectoplasmic new single “Into Cemetery Fog.”

The devil comes in many forms. Hear the latest from USBM desert dwellers Devil With No Name.

It doesn’t matter if we all die, as long as you hear the new single from shoegaze-infused black metallers An Autumn for Crippled Children first.

Australia-based black metallers Order Of Orias corrupt harmony on their new album, Ablaze, now streaming in full only at Decibel.

Ved Buens Ende‘s progressive black metal game-changer, Written in Waters is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame