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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!

Premiere

Full Album Stream: Witching Hour – “Descending… Where Time Has Ceased to Exist”

May 18, 2026

German black-thrashers Witching Hour embrace their heavy metal side.

Editorial

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.

Latest Issue

Khemmis

June 2026 [#260]

Includes exclusive limited edition Hellripper flexi disc

The Lightness of Being! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Suffocation’s Pierced From Within, At the Gates, Nervosa, Frozen Soul, Elder, Ghoul and more

Full Album Stream: Abandon Agony –Endbringer

May 18, 2026

New Swedish melodic DM crew Abandon Agony start their ascent with full-length debut Endbringer.

Video Premiere: Windswept – “Cenote”

May 15, 2026

Wellington, New Zealand black metallers Windswept deliver “a lament that explores guilt, identity, and self-destruction. The feeling of weaving a sophisticated web of lies.”

Album Premiere: Festering Hag – ‘The Hag, the Mother, and the Wolf’

May 14, 2026

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.

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.

Track Premiere: Getting Cosmic with The Conflux Collective’s “In the Wake of Saturn”

May 14, 2026

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

Resurrected Seattle splattercore legends, The Accüsed, are slicing and dicing on violent new single, “Interfectrix.”

Video Premiere: Achryma – “Hollowlight”

May 12, 2026

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

Have you no Common Decency? Then start with their new split release with Self Love.