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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.

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Hulder

July 2026 [#261]

Includes exclusive limited edition Venom flexi disc

The Acclamation of Bonds! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Acheron’s Rites of the Black Mass, an exclusive Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography excerpt, Neurosis, Panopticon and more

Video Premiere: Apogean – ‘Waste Where Life Begins’

June 23, 2026

Canadian tech death outfit Apogean share the title track to their second album.

Album Premiere: There Were Wires – Vessel

June 23, 2026

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

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

Two bands. Fourteen songs. Seventeen minutes: It’s the new Whoresnation / Nak’ay split.

Acheron – Rites of the Black Mass

June 22, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.