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Former Napalm Death Guitarist Mitch Harris Thinks Touring Is Broken. TourFlip Is His Solution
June 24, 2026
Mitch Harris pours 30 years of extreme metal touring experience (and over 4,000 shows) into TourFlip, a platform designed to connect artists, promoters, venues, festivals and fans.
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Track Premiere: Bacht’n de Vulle Moane – ‘Verdwazing Der Dwazen (Min Erte Bloedt)’
June 24, 2026
Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.
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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.
Video Premiere: Apogean – ‘Waste Where Life Begins’
June 23, 2026 Emily Bellino
Canadian tech death outfit Apogean share the title track to their second album.
Album Premiere: There Were Wires – Vessel
June 23, 2026 José Carlos Santos
Hear Massachusetts post-hardcore heroes There Were Wires return with their first full-length in 23 years.
Venom Reveal Exclusive Recording, “Nevermore (Full Length Version),” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
June 23, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from black metal progenitors Venom before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
Blast Worship: Whoresnation/Nak’ay
June 23, 2026 Gene Meyer
Two bands. Fourteen songs. Seventeen minutes: It’s the new Whoresnation / Nak’ay split.
Acheron – Rites of the Black Mass
June 22, 2026 Dutch Pearce
How Acheron put actual Satan in Florida death on their Hall of Fame-inducted debut, Rites of the Black Mass.
Track Premiere: Irata – “Goodside”
June 22, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Noisy North Carolina trio Irata show their “Goodside” on this tension-filled, fuzzed-out new single.
Five For Friday: June 19, 2026
June 19, 2026 J. Andrew
New full-length LPs from Saidan, Mork and Inscribed headline a diverse new release Friday!
Track-by-Track: Fleshcrawl – Epitome of Carnage
June 18, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
We catch up with Fleshcrawl for a track-by track breakdown of their new album in the old-school death metal crew’s own words.
Track Premiere: Agonanist – ‘Effacement’
June 18, 2026 Emily Bellino
Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.
Full Album Stream: Gold Spire –Steps Into Shadow
June 17, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

