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The complete denial of black metal in favor of the folk-isms which helped define it.

Black metal for the body, not the spirit. Listen to Sainte Marie des Loups’s new album now.

Is it French? Is it American? Why not both? Listen to Lure’s debut in full.

The new international black metal unit hones black metal’s edge. Listen to a full straeam of “Unyielding/Unseeing” and read an interview with the band.

This eccentric French artist achieves an almighty power with latest release “Couvre-sang” — on waves of industrial nightscapes, we’re floating swimmingly with this atmospheric new song.

Our favorite music videos contain nothing but the band, the crowd, and the song — here, we’ve got the epic closing track from French trio Slift’s latest album “Ummon” captured in such a fashion. Super-heavy psych-rock content inside.

Madness in atmospheric black metal form. Listen to an exclusive stream of the band’s debut album.

Though they have shed their black and death metal trappings, the spirit remains the same. Listen to a new single from the upcoming “IIII”.

We interviewed numerous bands from blackgaze and beyond (incl. Unreqvited, Sivyj Yar, and more) about Alcest’s seminal second album “Écailles de Lune” — released ten years ago today, it stands now as a genre-defining landmark influential to so many.

Abject terror in jagged black metal form.