Black Metal Album Reviews
Every Black Metal record the editors have reviewed, scored out of ten.
17 reviews
8.0
Krallice
Scour Order
The guitars take the load again and the frame holds
Eirik Solvang
Sep 18, 2026
8.5
Archgoat
Nightbringer, Lightbringer
The citadel breached from within, the relics kept, one song in the wrong place.
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 14, 2026
9.0
Sigh
Goh-Ka
Nine stages of decay, wired into one circuit that almost never shorts.
Curtis Vance
Sep 9, 2026
8.0
Devil Master
Bloody Dreams
Twelve minutes of trailers, then a feature worth the whole ticket
Gareth Llewellyn
Sep 8, 2026
7.5
Behemoth
I, Scvlptor
The new stone is good; there is simply not enough of it
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 6, 2026
9.3
Mayhem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
The cathedral the genre still worships in, with the right priest howling
Eirik Solvang
Aug 30, 2026
9.0
Fen
Elemental (Part 1: Mourning Earth)
Forty-seven minutes of slow erosion that cut clean down to bedrock
Eirik Solvang
Aug 24, 2026
8.5
Hulder
Verbolgen
The finest hand Hulder has shown, and the ink runs thin late on
Eirik Solvang
Aug 11, 2026
8.0
Taake
En skog av nidstang
Four poles of scorn planted true, and left standing a little too long.
Eirik Solvang
Aug 6, 2026
8.0
Blackbraid
Blackbraid III
A trilogy closed with a plateau instead of a summit.
Eirik Solvang
Jul 1, 2026
7.5
Behemoth
The Shit ov God
Immaculate execution, undermined by a decision made in marketing.
Andrzej Sawicki
Jun 3, 2026
8.0
Sodom
The Arsonist
Analogue drums, four decades in, and nowhere to play it.
Declan Rourke
May 16, 2026
9.2
Emperor
In the Nightside Eclipse
The record that built the vocabulary, in a mix that half buries it.
Eirik Solvang
Apr 28, 2026
9.0
Werewolves
Die for Us
Australia's most savage death metal band, Werewolves, returns with their fifth studio album, Die For Us. Known for their...
Andrzej Sawicki
Mar 18, 2026
7.0
Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa
The Blossoming
Ætheria Conscientia’s third album, The Blossoming, is a testament to their startling creative abilities, spanning six ep...
Eirik Solvang
Jun 8, 2024
7.5
Darkthrone
It Beckons Us All.......
It Beckons Us All opens with "Howling Primitive Colonies," immediately immersing listeners in a dense, doom-laden atmosp...
Eirik Solvang
Jun 8, 2024
6.0
Rotting Christ
Pro Xristou
Rotting Christ, the name alone evokes an image of unfiltered death and blasphemy, a fitting description for the band tha...
Andrzej Sawicki
May 28, 2024