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FINAL GASP to Release Exclusive New Song, “Aftermath,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
August 28, 2026
You’ve got until Friday, Monday, August 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of this exclusive single from Boston death rockers Final Gasp is yours as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.
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Video Premiere: Castle – “3 Knocks”
August 27, 2026
Watch the video for “3 Knocks,” the fourth and final single from Carrie Chains, the new album from heavy-doom trio Castle, out September 4 through Hammerheart Records.
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An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground
December 26, 2025
Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.
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October 2026 [#264]
It’s Always Sunny in Oklahoma! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Agalloch’s Ashes Against the Grain, Godflesh, Fire in the Mountains 2026 Reviewed, Anthrax, Mastodon, Russian Circles and more. Each issue includes an exclusive limited edition Sulaco flexi disc!
Five For Friday: August 28, 2026
August 28, 2026 J. Andrew
This week brings us the latest hard and heavy hitters from Mastodon, Street Tombs, Unholy Redeemer and more!
Video Premiere: Eternal Drak – “We Force It To Speak”
August 27, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Check out Eternal Drak‘s new music video for “We Force It To Speak” from the band’s newly issued sixth album, The Violence of Time, which was released July 27.
Q&A: Forest Brienne Cutrer (Bury Them and Keep Quiet) On Personal Transformation and “Positive Nihilism”
August 27, 2026 Justin Norton
Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal today as Bury Them and Keep Quiet.
Track Premiere: Suffering Quota – “Again”
August 26, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Dutch grinders Suffering Quota offer a different take on “rock” and “roll” on Sisyphus-inspired track “Again.”
Video Premiere: Submasq – “Anger”
August 26, 2026 Dillon Collins
Watch the new video from Israeli progressive metallers Submasq.
Album Premiere: Miscreance – Reminiscence
August 26, 2026 Tim Mudd
On Reminiscence, Miscreance take the old-school technical death metal blueprint and drag it through a prehistoric hallucination full of tribal percussion, psychic violence, alien ritual and fretboard abuse.
Full Album Stream: Ninth Realm – “Damnation’s Veil”
August 25, 2026 Emily Bellino
Maryland death-thrashers Ninth Realm take no prisoners on their new album.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Charity Seminar For Krieg’s Neill Jameson
August 25, 2026 J. Andrew
On Sunday, October 4, black belts Danny Katz, David Grossman and Dean Lewis will hold a charity event for Neill Jameson and his daughter.
Blast Worship: Held Hostage
August 25, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear Peoria powerviolence purveyors Held Hostage take some prisoners on ripper of a debut demo.
Track Premiere: Foreign Body – “When Sex Is Not Enough”
August 24, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Brooklyn noise rock scrapers, Foreign Body, roil, throb and abrade earholes on new single, “When Sex Is Not Enough.”