Ramming Speed's 12" split with Texas skate shredders A.N.S. is out today, and it finds the Boston DIY thrashers pushing further into the darker, more intriguing sonic territory hinted at a couple years back on the band's memorable Candlelight debut Brainwreck -- this vinyl slab is a true smorgasbord of raging riffs, driving beats, and pure piss and vinegar custom built for those who have been ...

Greek grape-leaf dolmas rule. So too does Greek black metal. Stretching as far back as Rotting Christ, Varathron, Necromantia, Zemial, Thou Art Lord, Greece's storied black metal history rivals the Norwegians. In fact, the Norwegians were heavily informed by the extreme sounds of the Mediterranean. Not to dwell on the past too much, we've brought on black metal newcomers Dodsferd to show you what ...

Woot, woot! This year's Found Footage Festival is being headlined by the awesome cult documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot! Dates here. Official trailer after the jump. Bonus: The Propagandhi song "Back to the Motor League" which always reminds me of a sneering, modern day take on this movie which includes the semi-unrelated/totally awesome line, "Lord, hear our prayer: take back your Amy ...

We must be doing something right, because the incredibly generous folks over at Volcom gifted us with TEN (10) copies of Premonition 13's brand-new 7" to give to TEN (10) deserving Deciblog readers. If you haven't already, read about Wino's new venture with his pal of 20 years, Jim "Sparky" Karow, in the current issue of Decibel (see In the Studio, page 20). Brother J. Bennett discovered that ...

On March 1st, we streamed new Vicious Rumors tune, "Razorback Blade". It ruled. Yeah, we're sure you said, "Vicious Who"? They're '80s. Not as in nu-'80s, but '80s. They were there when riffs were fast (as a shark, possibly?), aggression was the primary emotion, and white Reebok hightops (the ones with the big, floppy tongues) were worn by all. So, when we had the chance premiere Vicious ...

Welcome to The Lazarus Pit, a biweekly look at should-be classic metal records that don't get nearly enough love, stuff that's essential listening for students of extreme metal that you may not have ever heard of.  Stuff that we’re too lazy to track down the band members to do a Hall Of Fame for.  This time around, we travel to the dead realm of Atlantis on a quest for magik and metal: ...

Legendary shredder Alex Skolnick may have reunited with his thrash metal brethren in Testament to form some damnation a few years back, but the guitarist's longtime forward-thinking avant jazz group the Alex Skolnick Trio marches onward nonetheless. The band's fourth album -- the ebullient, beguiling, often-as-not mind-bending Veritas -- drops today, and Skolnick was kind enough to offer ...

As an ex-Hoosier, it's always nice to highlight bands who are thriving in Indiana. The colossal crew Gates of Slumber are one of those bands dedicated to old school metal that is only concerned with riffs the size of whale bones. Below is "Coven of Cain," the first eruption from forthcoming album The Wretch, slated for a May 10th release on Rise Above Records. It's rocking, muscular doom that ...

What with the recent killer Owen Hart and Graf Orlock albums -- not to mention those imminent Ghostlimb jams! -- Vitriol Records has been on quite a tear of late, but even those crazy bastards have realized the only way to truly put a cherry on top of this nasty buzzsaw sundae is by offering up another wild literary vision from the singular mind of Decibel's own Andrew Bonazelli, The Dreamt ...

Obliterating everyone in attendance at this year's Scion Rock festival in Pomona, California, British black metallers Anaal Nathrakh appear poised for extreme metal dominance. Though the group's history takes them back to 1998 (debut album, The Codex Necro, landed in 2001), it's the recent output, namely 2009's In the Constellation of the Black Widow, that's set them apart from grim-faced ...