Latest Black Metal News on the Metal Music Battlefield

Masters of Sumerian black metal, MELECHESH, are proud to release the fully instrumental version of their acclaimed 2010 album, 'The Epigenesis'.

Caledonian powerhouse SAOR (Andy Marshall) will release his new album 'Origins' on June, 24th via Season of Mist. Today they streamed their entire album on Youtube.

Polish metal giants BEHEMOTH has revealed another track taken from their forthcoming 12th studio album, 'Opvs Contra Natvram', which is set to arrive via Nuclear Blast on 16th September 2022.

Black metal/death metal outfit HISSING premiere their latest track 'Hostile Absurdity', taken from the upcoming album 'Hypervirulence Architecture' out on July 15, 2022, via Profound Lore Records.

The mystical, raw, and symphonic Finnish Pagan Metal artist VERMILIA has released her new track 'Hautavajo', from her forthcoming full-length album "Ruska", which will be released on 06.09.2022, as an independent artist.

Norwegian black-metal band KHOLD presents the new track 'I demonens bok', taken from the upcoming album "Svartsyn", out June 24th, 2022 via Soulseller Records.

Experimental black metal outfit IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT has just announced their new full-length album 'Spirit of Ecstasy' out on July 22nd via Century Media Records.

American black metal band TOMBS is about to release their new five-track EP 'Ex Oblivion', out on July 13, 2022, via the Season of Mist, and presented the Motörhead cover 'Killed By Death' as a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister.

Netherlands' black metal band DINBETHES bursts on the scene with their debut single ‘Venijn’, a song which is the first taste of their upcoming album ‘Balans’

Vancouver, BC-based blackened death metal infuse WRMWITCH are unleashing their standalone single 'Age of the Ordeal of Iron'.

Cult Polish extreme metallers, BEHEMOTH, have announced their long-awaited 12th studio album, 'Opvs Contra Natvram', set to be launched on September 16th, 2022, and features the single 'Ov My Herculean Exile'.

Italian symphonic black metallers HERUKA release their fourth album, “Memorie”, set for May 24th, published by Rude Awakening Records and limited to 300 CD copies worldwide.

“The Foul Deth of Engelond” by SACRED SON will be out 13th May 2022 via True Cult Records and is available over at Bandcamp.

TOMB OF FINLAND have announced the release of ‘Wretched Bliss’ video, track taken from their third studio album, to be released this year.

UNBOWED releases new single, “The Holy Momentum”, the second taste of what’s to come from UNBOWED’s highly anticipated third album, 'Colour The Soul'.

CRADLE OF FILTH announced the departure of two band members: guitarist Richard Shaw and keyboard player Anabelle Iratni.

HAUNTER prove they're the real deal with their sophomore release "Discarnate Ails", available as full streaming and set to be released on May 6th as a CD, LP and Digital through to Profound Lore Records.

Lithuanian black/death band SISYPHEAN are ready with their second full-length, "Colours of Faith", which will be launched on May 27th, 2022, via Transcending Obscurity Records. Meanwhile, they are ready with a single from the album, titled "Open Wounds".

SAOR, the Irish atmospheric black metal project led by mastermind Andy Marshall, is proud to reveal details for their upcoming album "Origins", available through Season of Mist in June 24th, 2022, and share the video for the album title track.

"Black Metal of the American West" explores the band's unique approach to combining the soundscapes and lyrical content of Old American West with Black Metal.

Today, notorious Swedish black metal collective WATAIN is celebrating the release of their new studio album, "The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain," which arrives just in time to commemorate Walpurgis Night when April moves aside for the month of May and bonfires will light up the night sky.

Sweden-based gothic metal band TRIBULATION is pleased to present their single "The Dhampir" as a final sequel to their latest studio album release "Where the Gloom Becomes Sound", released on January 29th, 2021 via Century Media Records.

Athens, Greece-based symphonic death metallers SEPTICFLESH have released an animated lyric video for the song “A Desert Throne”, taken from the band’s new album “Modern Primitive”.

BLACK VOID's latest single, "Dadaist Disgust", featuring Greek black-metal legend Sakis Tolis, has been released. The track is from BLACK VOID's upcoming new album, "Antithesis", set to be released through Nuclear Blast on May 27th, 2022.