Dark Funeral

Advance copies of our annual Decibel Magazine Tour issue, featuring an exclusive Origin flexi disc, are here in extremely limited quantities.

All tickets to the 2023 Decibel Magazine Tour, kicking off in May, are on sale now!

The Decibel Magazine Tour returns to the road in May! Tickets on sale Friday, February 3 at 10am local time.

The time to swill is now! Get your Metal & Beer Fest tickets to see Cannibal Corpse, Pig Destroyer, Dark Funeral and more at the Summit in Denver, Co on December 2-3, 2022

Cannibal Corpse, Pig Destroyer, Dark Funeral and more join forces with a dozen of the most metal breweries in North America at the Summit. Tickets on sale Friday, July 22 at 10am MT.

In honor of Candlemass’s full-album performance of their landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on June 10, scene royalty reflects on the LP’s impact.

It’s time for some new releases, check out the latest from Midnight, Dark Funeral, Extinction A.D. and more!

Ex-members of The Crown and Dark Funeral unleash ’90s throwback mayhem in Night Crowned.

Listen to a new song from Zornheym (ex-Dark Funeral) now!

There’s some great black metal album art. And there is some not-so-great black metal album art. Krieg‘s Neill Jameson focuses on the latter in the second part of this series.

** Twenty-two years. That’s how long Dark Funeral has been at it. It, being black metal. It, being the black metal lifestyle. It, being two EPs and six full-lengths, going back to 1994, when black metal wasn’t hip in your neck of the woods (unless it’s Olso, Bergen, or Stockholm). For the past seven years, the Swedes have been writing new album, Where Shadows Forever Reign. They’ve changed vocalists, with Emperor Magus Caligula exiting after 15 years of service to be replaced by Heljarmadr (Cursed 13). New drummer Dominator (The Wretched End) is an inspired blast machine. And bassist Natt (Angrepp) rumbles Lucifer’s great thunder. Reinforced with dark legions, Dark Funeral will take Where Shadows Forever Reign across the globe. Rise… Legions!

So, two Norwegians — ex-Emperor/ex-Zyklon guitarist Samoth and Mindgrinder/ex-Scum guitarist Cosmo — and one Swede — ex-Dark Funeral/ex-Aeon drummer Nils Fjellström — team up to form The Wretched End. Now, typically Swedes despise the Norwegians for one reason or another (usually because the Norwegian Kronor has more purchasing power than the Swedish Kronor and the…