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.

Join us in celebrating Metallica with the five best covers of their hits by black metal bands. Have songs more black metal in spirit than “Bleeding Me” and “Fade to Black” ever existed?! Of course not ...

The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of ...

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 ...

Here are the best albums by 11 legendary black metal bands! If you are a true black metal fan, you know that tough questions like “What is the greatest Watain release?” can become a persistent enemy ...

While the Americana black metallers haven’t announced any definitive plans for what comes next, guitarist-vocalist Shane ...

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 ...