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HELLRIPPER Premiere Exclusive Zeke Covers EP via the Decibel Flexi Series!
May 14, 2026
Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from Scottish black metal speed demon Hellripper before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
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Track Premiere: Fimbul Winter – “Crowned In Ash”
May 14, 2026
Fimbul Winter (featuring ex-Amon Amarth members) present “Crowned In Ash,” their latest release following the 2025 debut EP What Once Was.
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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.
Album Premiere: Festering Hag – ‘The Hag, the Mother, and the Wolf’
May 14, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
What a name! Check out Festering Hag‘s debut album, The Hag, the Mother, and the Wolf. The record is out this Friday via Bog Infinity, a label established last year. The Hag, the Mother, and the Wolf by Festering Hag “Festering Hag’s debut album is a cautionary fairytale told through keyboard instruments both traditional and unconventional ……
Track Premiere: Getting Cosmic with The Conflux Collective’s “In the Wake of Saturn”
May 14, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear former and current members of Decrepit Birth, Animosity, Akurion, Neuraxis, Augury, Emasculator and more gather as The Conflux Collective.
Video Premiere: The Accüsed – “Interfectrix”
May 13, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Resurrected Seattle splattercore legends, The Accüsed, are slicing and dicing on violent new single, “Interfectrix.”
Video Premiere: Gorepig – ‘Guillotine Gate’
May 13, 2026 Tim Mudd
Hear Arkansas deathcore deviants Gorepig bring all the squeals.
Don’t Sleep on Gozu’s New Stoner Metal Rager, Gozu VI
May 12, 2026 Emily Bellino
Boston stoner quartet Gozu bring the riffs on their new album.
Video Premiere: Achryma – “Hollowlight”
May 12, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
New Belgian blackgaze outfit, Achryma, take us in the studio for the morose title track to their new Hollowlight EP.
Blast Worship: Common Decency
May 12, 2026 Gene Meyer
Have you no Common Decency? Then start with their new split release with Self Love.
Track Premiere: Godless – ‘Numenlagneia’
May 11, 2026 Emily Bellino
Chilean death metal stalwartsGodless reveal the latest single from their upcoming album.
Five For Friday: May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026 J. Andrew
New Darkthrone! New Draconian! New Panopticon! It’s a big week of new releases from some big names, check it out!
Suffocation – Pierced from Within
May 7, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Long Island death metal kings Suffocation earn their second HOF induction via Pierced From Within.

