<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Black-metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/tag/black-metal Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:11:27 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “I have always been interested in the mystery about our existence. I kept my eyes opened during the night to see in the darkness. My imagination went from Heaven to Hell”: The blasphemous Brazilian black metal band who made Sepultura look like Bon Jovi ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/mystifier-brazilian-black-metal-band-history vUj6Ydsa9zDgmhk3SdQMNm Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:11:27 +0000 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:00:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I found myself preoccupied by death." Meet Ante-Inferno, the British band bringing black metal to the seaside ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/ante-inferno-bring-black-metal-to-the-seaside FxzRWhBZaUkTwH6SGYbP57 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ Hear Deafheaven go back to black metal with new single Magnolia ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/deafheaven-announce-lonely-people-with-power-album-2025 BbLqEmxnP2BQtZCaiZMXFP Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:54:59 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 best black metal albums of 2024 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-best-black-metal-albums-2024 N7XRBzj3gNdyZVoWYLi6AL Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:00:10 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Her type of voice could work surprisingly well with our music”: Celeste (the black metal band) want to make a song with Celeste (the soul singer) ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/celeste-name-favourite-celeste-song-2024 kUn9v9duUQrVjQZBjh3j8P Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:42:18 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Two decades after shedding their punk and black metal shackles, Sólstafir still have new ideas to explore." Iceland's coolest metal band explore their own legacy on eighth album Hin Helga Kvöl ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/two-decades-after-shedding-their-punk-and-black-metal-shackles-solstafir-still-have-new-ideas-to-explore-icelands-coolest-metal-band-explore-their-own-legacy-on-eighth-album-hin-helga-kvol TJdAbCepJXP2WhqdTGCGPL Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:42:43 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Our practice room was a church. The vicar used to let us in and then leave. We ransacked the place, basically”: How Venom made their unholy masterpiece Black Metal and changed the course of metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/venom-black-metal-story-behind-album-interview xTXBBWndeF6HgfnKMQzQV6 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:29:15 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ Zetra's debut album sounds like a black metal band swapped screams and blastbeats for croons and synthesisers, then rehearsed on the set of a 70s Doctor Who episode. And it's not bad! ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/zetra-zetra-2024 vCy99fBYQiL528NEiyFfHT Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:42:51 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ Black metal breakout stars Blackbraid return with cover of genre classic Warriors ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/blackbraid-return-cover-i-warriors-2024 yRWgW6beVLXh5wfmTRYnCB Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:16:51 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ Black metal enigma Myrkur has joined King Diamond’s live band ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/myrkur-joins-king-diamond-live-band-2024 uraiur57Jzv762jEiHPqH8 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:04:11 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ Black metal mavens Tribulation announce Sub Rosa In Æternum album, stick with psych-rock on new single Tainted Skies ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/black-metal-mavens-tribulation-announce-sub-rosa-in-aeternum-album-explore-psych-rock-on-new-single-tainted-skies NGVBDh9vUBL9jkGBP5VzLS Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:02:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Welcome to the urban abyss”: Rising black metal favourites Gaerea release crushing single Hope Shatters, announce new album Coma and Zeal & Ardor tour ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/gaerea-release-hope-shatters-single-announce-coma-album-2024 J79bvk6Y3AsaWoohfkCVTe Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:45:12 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ “There were bad vibes with local Oslo bands saying it was crap”: how Dimmu Borgir’s controversial symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/dimmu-borgir-enthrone-darkness-triumphant-story-behind-album jRV5WRfv49FRifKVECBV8C Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:00:43 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ “This is going to be THE summer!” Anthrax bassist Frank Bello has joined Norwegian black metal band Satyricon ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/anthrax-frank-bello-joins-satyricon-2024 rdiPw4Rdv5zdLzyM87msy9 Wed, 29 May 2024 15:26:29 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I feel that black metal is a really feminine genre." Meet Witch Club Satan, the Necrobutcher-approved feminist trio pushing the boundaries of metal's most extreme subgenre ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/witch-club-satan-interview-2024 vRLg4wverUATNeM2ziR6AS Tue, 28 May 2024 10:49:08 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ Gaerea prove why they’re one of black metal’s best up-and-comers with hammering new single World Ablaze: “It’s a song about desire, hope and freedom” ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/gaerea-release-new-single-world-ablaze-black-metal qyCtny43ea6kK4eNHJr9uE Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:03:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ “My role in the black metal scene is probably exaggerated, because I was a visible frontman… In many ways I was just the nerd making music”: Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/ihshan-ihsahn-self-titled nUCmaDVGT2r9ZFc3nEqfJa Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:18:06 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The major metal magazines slaughtered Emperor's early albums." How black metal icon Ihsahn ditched corpsepaint and church burnings to become a prog master ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-ihsahn-went-from-black-metal-icon-to-prog-metal-master GYRShDXr7ByW2u5KwgXArW Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:50:08 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/best-new-metal-bands-march-2024 nhNfVPtWy5jE5UBxaX8sC6 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:27:40 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Enslaved still sound as explosive as they did when they started." Enslaved, Svalbard and Wayfarer contort black metal into startling new forms at stunning London show ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/enslaved-svalbard-wayfarer-islington-assembly-hall-london-review-2024 6yr9fXtdNtPECugukFA8FJ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:15:06 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ Emperor’s Ihsahn reflects on black metal church-burnings: “We were all very consumed with the whole thing. The attention it got.” ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/ihsahn-remembers-earlu-emperor-black-metal-scene t73M2BfxKhJzMrDrV9jxpf Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:04:01 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We are incredibly sorry to anyone we offended”: A pig’s head was thrown around in a black metal mosh pit, and people are so furious that the band have apologised ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/black-metal-pigs-head-moshpit-apology p2K4ht4XwehcLatTkeiNTA Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:09:28 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:08 +0000 <![CDATA[ "A friend said this sounds like the Emperor album that was never recorded": Ihsahn is returning to his symphonic black metal roots on his new self-titled album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/ihsahn-says-new-album-is-like-emperor-album-that-was-never-recorded qSMXaQiyeKD4Tb5rkaMZj8 Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:33:57 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 best black metal albums of 2023 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/best-black-metal-albums-of-2023 8MxiX9mKTvLhoggSdLhWPg Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:27:21 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I just wanted to scream”: Taiwanese duo Laang 冷 are channelling a near-death experience into ferocious black metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/laang-interview-2023 5AassjX5g2BvkJr82pPn35 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:03:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ Frostbitten fantasy kingdoms, Spinal Tap mishaps and kidnapped cats - forget Lords Of Chaos, we want to see the Immortal movie: "I’ve even been offered to do it, but Blashyrkh belongs to Immortal" ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/frosty-kingdoms-kidnapped-cats-spinal-tap-mishaps-wheres-the-immortal-movie unqWv6oxE5V6bci7L4fUVN Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:00:39 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We’re at the festival and everybody else is a Viking and playing accordions… And then we watched what we were doing, like, ‘I hope this isn’t our fault!’” Ivar Bjørnson on how Enslaved avoided black metal to become prog ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/enslaved-viking-history-prog o34guRWoQa7Wnf2eFyXQ6X Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:15:49 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ 10 up-and-coming black metal bands every self-respecting metalhead should listen to ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/up-and-coming-black-metal-bands-blackbraid-gaerea 2DhMEBxRZjQbNfAZguEMrJ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:54:13 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I found that offensive. I hope you lose your voice.” Remember that time someone screamed Let It Go like a black metal song on Britain’s Got Talent and really annoyed Amanda Holden? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/let-it-go-death-metal-britains-got-talent-amanda-holden-simon-cowell sNkipoMEd7Yz6iywt39BRZ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:35:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ Immortal’s War Against All: thrilling riff-powered noise from Norway‘s black metal crusaders ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/immortal-war-against-all-album-review gxSuFLES9c9apCE7tw6VvF Tue, 23 May 2023 14:53:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ Black metal band Marduk kick out bassist after onstage Nazi salute ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/black-metal-band-marduk-kick-out-bassist-after-onstage-nazi-salute 4uf4vaTpxp5pmsccTdv9TS Fri, 19 May 2023 11:18:01 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ A beginner's guide to black metal in five essential albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/a-beginners-guide-to-black-metal-in-five-essential-albums SRvz2uDpwVmWBYH3pdhxpL Wed, 10 May 2023 10:59:57 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ Remembering the totally normal moment black metal legends Satyricon played a catwalk during the World Ski Championships ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/remembering-the-totally-normal-moment-black-metal-legends-satyricon-played-a-catwalk-during-the-world-ski-championships Df6bKbaqtRwyHyDAZV6MTP Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:24:26 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch this metal frontman teach terrified daytime TV hosts black metal growls on live TV ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-this-metal-frontman-teach-terrified-daytime-tv-hosts-black-metal-growls-on-live-tv pPtPd2uHsww42XNHc3vbgF Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:57:17 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 Most Malevolent Black Metal Logo Memes ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-most-malevolent-black-metal-logo-memes NQaghiHaURFFuPsigG7Lh6 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:25:17 +0000 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:26:58 +0000 <![CDATA[ Metalhead on The Voice advances to next round with black metal cover ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/metalhead-on-the-voice-advances-to-next-round-with-black-metal-cover g4AeUPB8Eci5QjKnZ4hSfN Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:51:00 +0000 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:51:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ Black metal in the desert is the most kvlt thing you will see today ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/black-metal-in-the-desert-is-the-most-kvlt-thing-you-will-see-today aEwpB5dhrGdNV6PosRVAnV Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:17:00 +0000 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:17:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ Cradle Of Filth - From The Cradle To Enslave reissue album review ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/cradle-of-filth-from-the-cradle-to-enslave-reissue-album-review ukJZtSKEK2BgtpXcyZoADf Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ The First Album I Ever Bought: Dani Filth ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/first-album-dani-filth-cradle-of-filth-devilment-interview sjAbb3CeNjnbQxiKaofrwm Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 Best Cradle Of Filth B-Sides ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-cradle-of-filth-b-sides HGweXEMrDJG4pCMsdoFSVe Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:30:00 +0000 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:50:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ New documentary Blackhearts confronts the myth of Norway's black metal scene ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/new-documentary-blackhearts-confronts-the-myth-of-norways-black-metal-scene whvzKXSXpiRfF5TNXUcEMJ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:17:00 +0000 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:18:02 +0000 <![CDATA[ What happened when Nergal went to India ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/behemoth-adam-darski-nergal-india-trip-blog sxxq3HmKgipVFKMLDr4VnD Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:30:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Necronautical tackle life's big questions with their brand of black metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/necronautical-tackle-life-s-big-questions-with-their-brand-of-black-metal qqrhkJ4ZWzt6645dLweig7 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:34:18 +0000