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Kill Feed Contest: Win an Actual Cool World Super Nintendo Cart Signed by CHAT PILE!
December 12, 2025
Now is your chance to win this one-of-a-kind relic along with two LPs from the Oklahoma cinephiles!
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Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet
December 10, 2025
Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.
Editorial
Gus Rios (Cold Slither): The Toys That Saved Me
May 30, 2025
Fresh from his reveal as Cold Slither frontman Zartan, drummer/guitarist/vocalist Gus Rios provides the following homage to the impact of the toys that defined his childhood and shaped his adulthood.
Five For Friday: Death Metal 2025
December 12, 2025 J. Andrew
Check out some of the year’s best in death metal madness, including releases from Drawn and Quartered, Evoken, Ancient Death and more!
Preorder: NO/MÁS’s “No Peace” on Decibel-Exclusive Bloodied White Marble Vinyl Limited to Just 100 Copies
December 12, 2025 Decibel Magazine
There are only a mere 100 copies of No Peace, the new full-length LP from D.C. grindcrushers No/Más on Decibel-exclusive Bloodied White Marble vinyl. Hurry before there are… no more.
Video Premiere: Humanness Test – “Prima Facie”
December 11, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Progressive metal duo Humanness Test unveil their latest single, “Prima Facie,” along with new video. You can hear it with us first.
Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
December 11, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.
Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Blind and Shadows Cast’
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.
Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.
Track Premiere: Sacri Suoni – ‘Dissolve to Reunite in Varanasi’
December 9, 2025 Emily Bellino
Soak in some instrumental doom vibes with the latest from Sacri Suoni.
Blast Worship: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
December 9, 2025 Gene Meyer
London grinders Carthage Must Be Destroyed will blast you back to the stone age.
Video Premiere: Eshtadur – “Fire Above Mountain Below” (live)
December 8, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.
1914 Break Down Their New Album, Viribus Unitis
December 8, 2025 Emily Bellino
Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.

