Here are 15 black metal songs that are actually really catchy. When you think of black metal, you probably think of at least a few central characteristics (such as high-pitched shrieking, tremolo ...

Skildum siphons his love of 90's melodic black and death metal and uses it as the medium for his expression. Skildum returns this year and now he has some help.

The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal Out of all of the 2000s American bands that meshed death metal with 3rd harmonies, The Black Dahlia Murder in my opinion did it best.

Born out of the ashes of Windir, the Sogndal quartet has consistently churned out quality melodic black metal since 2004. September 28th marks the release date of the band's first album since 2015.

They fuse shoegaze, noise, punk, metal, post-rock, and more into a sound that's tough to pin down but scratches the same heavy/hazy itch as most of the other bands on this list.

In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic death metal scene took a simple idea — death metal should sound more like Iron Maiden — and ran with it. At one point, it was Europe’s leading metal sound.

Recently, I’ve discovered some genuinely baffling genre tags: melodic grindcore, psychedelic nu-metal, pro-Keynesian-economics black metal and something called… Elder Scrolls metal?

Make no mistake, Black Sabbath is the birth of metal, but it’s also a record of the band’s distinctive take on the music that spawned the genre they created.

10. Gallowbraid Jake Rogers of Salt Lake City accomplishes two unthinkable tasks with his band Gallowbraid. He plays genuinely melodic black metal and lives openly in Utah despite his music being ...

I can respect that,” says Sergio Soto, guitarist and vocalist for L.A.-based melodic black-metal band Imperialist, who also hired Kakophonix to compose an orchestral introduction for Imperialist ...