Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 40 years since Venom coined the phrase "black metal" and spawned metal's most infernal subgenre, it continues to thrive.

Here are 12 classic black metal albums turning 30 years old in 2025. Killjoys have attempted to convince us that black metal entered a state of decline once crimes began to attract media attention to ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Today, we celebrate the amazing black metal albums you might have missed in 2025. In addition, make sure to enjoy the superb Naglet til Livet by Jordsjuk, who boast a Norwegian dream-team lineup; this ...

Here’s five new rock and metal albums announced this week that you can look forward to. This past week’s leading announcements is for fans of the underground, ranging from deathcore, death-thrash, ...

After Hellhammer ended, nobody expected Celtic Frost to amount to anything – let alone influence a generation of metal bands ...

Hold onto your butts, ladies and gentlemen. One of the more interesting and exciting acts in modern black metal is about to hit the scene with a one-two punch, as Panopticon announced that we’ll all ...

When the former thrashers cut their hair and took influence from the blues, they didn’t emerge unscathed, but they remained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black metal is a broad (and slightly singed) church in 2025. From the operatic grandeur of symphonic black metal to the no frills ...

Let's rip off the Band-Aid: This is the final Black Market. After 11-plus years and 140 columns, we're finally packing it in. "Welcome to the Black Market, a new space at Stereogum dedicated to ...