black metal

Losing a loved one can rearrange one’s whole world, an idea Woe are forced to grapple with on “The Ones We Lost.” 

Moloch‘s out of print black metal album Verwüstung will be rereleased in a remastered for vinyl format by Argento Records. Hear the improved songs now.

Cold Fell embody a desolate and violent spirit inspired by the part of Northern England which they call home on “Bone Ceiling.”

Come hear the new black metal burner from Inferno while it’s hot!

Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10

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

On this week’s Demo:listen, we explore the remote and radiant dreamrealm evoked by Chile’s Praecognitvm.

Fen have refined their brand of atmospheric black metal on the first piece of their latest album, Winter. 

Dimmu Borgir’s mainstream metal breakthrough crashes the Decibel Hall of Fame this month.

Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds today to the ACLU in the continued fight for human rights around the world. Here are 5 releases to consider purchasing today. 

Curse of Denial brings original blackened death. 

Want a chance to partake in a meet and greet with Mayhem? Find out more here. 

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

Hellenic occultists Disharmony return after a nearly twenty year hiatus to unleash Goddamn the Sun upon our unsuspecting asses, and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek with grand leveler “The Gates of Elthon.”

The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Synarchy in the EU
dB rating: 8/10

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

Patria have unveiled a beautiful lyric video to go with their song “Axis.” 

Transcontinental duo Montfaucon tempers death-doom with elements of progressive, black and symphonic metal, creating an amalgamation of heaviness and melody. 

“Serpent Sun” comes off Nightbringer’s upcoming Terra Damanata.

The last time Fides Inversa released a full-length (2014’s Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans) Ebola was making its way across West Africa, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared off the Gulf of Thailand, ISIL begins its terror campaign across northern Iraq, and Pope Paul VI is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

Appalling Ascension
Dark matters
dB rating: 8/10

“The theme of ‘Baklengs mot Intet’ describes the inner battle, the bottomless despair and endless futility experienced by a walker of the Way.”

Hear a brand new Panopticon track recorded especially for the Decibel Flexi Series. 

Drudkh main man gets back to black metal basics with new project Windswept. Hear the first new track here. 

Bethlehem
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning
dB rating: 9/10

One writer picks five favorite Decibel web articles of 2016.

Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016. 

When you need a break after hearing “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” or “Jingle Bell Rock” ten thousand agonizing times.

War is hell, and hell sounds better than ever on Dead War’s The Triumph of Death.

Just in time for the holiday season, we bring you this exclusive full album stream of Veneration of Armageddon, the sophomore record from Germany’s Goatblood.