Symphonic Black Metal
Pre-Order MORBIKON’s Debut LP, ‘Ov Mournful Twilight’ & Hear a New Song RIGHT NOW!
September 13, 2022 Decibel Magazine
We got 100 copies of Morbikon‘s debut LP on Black & Silver split colored vinyl, which is accompanied by an exclusive Pull The Plug Morbikon patch that you can’t get anywhere else!
Video Premiere: Ceremonial Castings – “Midnight Deathcult Phenomena”
January 10, 2022 Daniel Lake
Watch recently resurrected symphonic USBM powerhouse Ceremonial Castings (ft. members of Uada) honor their 25th anniversary with a re-recorded classic.
Q&A: Gabriel Luis Unveils Symphonic Black-Death Metal Powerhouse Wythersake
June 7, 2021 Chris Dick
Washington, D.C.-based symphonic black/death metal outfit Wythersake discuss the Gnostic/Luciferian aspects of debut album, Antiquity.
Track Premiere: Ateiggär – ‘En Blinde namens Duracotus’
October 18, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Baroque Swiss black metal duo Ateiggär set the empyrean ablaze with their debut release.
Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums
September 23, 2019 Chris Dick
Decibel lists the Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums with Bishop of Hexen, Diabolical Masquerade, Anorexia Nervosa, Gehenna and SiriuS.
Track Premiere: Zornheym – ‘Whom The Night Brings’
August 10, 2017 Emily Bellino
Listen to a new song from Zornheym (ex-Dark Funeral) now!
Track Premiere: Mist of Misery – ‘Shackles of Life’
August 3, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream a new track from symphonic black metal group Mist of Misery now.
Video Premiere: Empyrean Throne – ‘Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam’
July 27, 2017 Emily Bellino
Put your war paint on and join the crusade with Empryean Throne.
Full Album Stream: Netherbird – ‘The Ghost Collector’
May 3, 2017 Emily Bellino
Netherbird‘s debut album, 2008’s The Ghost Collector, will be re-released through Black Lodge Records.
Label Spotlight: Black Lion Records
April 4, 2017 Emily Bellino
Black Lion Records have released a number of impressive death, black and doom metal albums recently. Check out some of the best.
Track Premiere: Carach Angren – ‘Song For The Dead’
March 15, 2017 Emily Bellino
A new Carach Angren album is on the way! Listen to first track, “Song for the Dead” now.
Belgian Symphonic Black Metallers Saille Birth Giants With “Benei ha’Elohim”
February 14, 2017 Daniel Lake
Nearly ten years since its inception, high-concept Belgian brutalizers Saille bring down the fire with their fourth album, Gnosis, to be released through Code666 Records on March 13th. Today we bring you a lyric video for the record’s opening track, “Benei ha’Elohim.”
Track Premiere: Shade Empire – ‘Anti-Life Saviour’
February 10, 2017 Emily Bellino
Shade Empire have revealed the first song from their upcoming album, which remains nameless, accompanied by a powerful and cold music video.
Dimmu Borgir – “Death Cult Armageddon”
January 26, 2017 Chris Dick
If there’s one black metal album that changed black metal—in almost every respect—it’s Dimmu Borgir’s Death Cult Armageddon.
Emperor – “Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk”
June 6, 2016 Chris Dick
The grandiose, striking and remarkable rush forth mere minutes into Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk’s prologue “Alsvartr (the Oath).” Nightmarish berceuses haunt mercilessly from the darkest corners of imagination, while frontman Ihsahn poetically invokes the illustrious nightspirit, as if there’s ordinary business in need of attending on the edge of town.