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CRO-MAGS Premiere Exclusive New Recording of “Hard Times” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
January 8, 2026
Score an exclusive flexi featuring hardcore legends Cro-Mags new re-recording of the classic “Hard Times,” while supplies last!
Premiere
Full Album Stream: Sad Whisperings – “The Hermit”
January 12, 2026
Death/doom OGs Sad Whisperings return with their first album in 33 years.
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
Necrofier
February 2026 [#256]
Includes exclusive limited edition Cro-Mags flexi disc
A Blaze in the Southern Sky! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Biohazard’s Urban Discipline, The Top 21 Most Anticipated Albums of 2026, Kreator, Voivod, Terror Corpse and more
Track Premiere: Blackwater Drowning – “The Sixth Omen”
January 12, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear North Carolina melodic death metal outfit Blackwater Drowning reveal “The Sixth Omen,” the new single from their upcoming Obscure Sorrows full-length.
EP Premiere: Salt Divination – The Boiled Sorceress
January 12, 2026 Albert Mudrian
Hear the debut EP from blackened hardcore whirlwind Salt Divination, featuring Converge’s Ben Koller on session drums.
Five For Friday: January 9, 2026
January 9, 2026 J. Andrew
Five for Friday opens the year with the latest heavy and harsh releases from Woe, Oraculum, Ectovoid and more!
Split Album Premiere: Creaturess and Sungrave – ‘Sepulchral Echoes’
January 8, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Just a year after their debut release, Idyll, Denver post-metal band Sungrave return with a collaborative new EP with Creaturess. Stream Cold Flesh and No One now.
Film Review: Death Reigns Shows That You Can’t Stop Rock and Roll, Even in the Bible Belt
January 8, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out this doc and learn what happens when you put on a metal fest in the heart of the Bible Belt.
Track Premiere: Mother Crone – “Unseen Way”
January 7, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Puget Sound doom pushers Mother Crone show us the “Unseen Way” on their twisty, progressive new single.
KILL FEED 077: John Famiglietti of HEALTH Wants You to Put Down the Phone, Pick Up a Controller
January 7, 2026 Michael Wohlberg and James Lewis
Music’s most accessible man wears his love of gaming on his, uh, chest.
Video Premiere: Ramtha – ‘Infinite Energy’
January 6, 2026 Emily Bellino
Unlock the cheat code for “Infinite Energy” when you watch this new vid from Florida party-thrashers Ramtha.
Blast Worship: Lay Waste
January 6, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear Virginia grinders Lay Waste do just that on their self-titled LP.
Track Premiere: Clouds Taste Satanic – “Beast From the Sea”
January 5, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Instru-metal doom stalwarts Clouds Taste Satanic get live’r than you’ll ever be on new track, “Beast From the Sea” recorded live in the studio in Berlin in 2023.
