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Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST Philly 2025 Tickets ON SALE NOW!
January 17, 2025
Tickets are ON SALE NOW for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Incantation, Mammoth Grinder, Ripped to Shreds and Walking Wounded on April 3 in Philly.
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Video Premiere: The Ghost Next Door – ‘Nothing, Then Nothing Again’
January 21, 2025
The Ghost Next Door get groovy.
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Justify Your Shitty Taste: Danzig’s “6:66 Satan’s Child”
October 31, 2024
Celebrate the culmination of spooky season by revisiting Danzig‘s oft overlooked monster, 6:66 Satan’s Child.
Blast Worship: Smearing
January 21, 2025 Gene Meyer
Get whipped by the hardcore approach to grind of Seattle’s Smearing.
Track Premiere: Guts Club – “Remember the Mountains”
January 20, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the mournful new elegy from New Orleans experimental doomgazers, Guts Club, “Remember the Mountains.”
Track Premiere: Sarkom – ‘Exceed in2 Chaos’
January 20, 2025 Emily Bellino
Listen to “Exceed in2 Chaos,” the title track from the new album from long-running Norwegian black metal outfit Sarkom.
Five For Friday: January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025 J. Andrew
This week’s new releases include the latest in heavy madness from Necrodeath, Onirophagus, Häxkapell and more!
Video Premiere: Dark Chapel – “Hollow Smile”
January 16, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear the latest from Dark Chapel, a new fronted by Black Label Society guitarist Dario Lorina. Their debut album, Spirit in the Glass, is due out February 28 via MNRK Heavy.
Video Premiere: Pathogenic – “Crowned in Corpses”
January 16, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Progressive death metallers Pathogenic prepare to release their relentless new album, Crowned in Corpses, on February 7 via Skepsis Records. And we have the video for the title track for you today.
Track Premiere: Pentagram – “Dull Pain”
January 16, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Legendary U.S. doom crew Pentagram return with the latest single from their first new studio album in a decade.
Video Premiere: The Curse Within – “Through Inferno”
January 15, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Toronto melodic DM hooligans, The Curse Within, get their Kill Screen thrills on in their new video for “Through Inferno.”
Video Premiere: Necrambulant – “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit”
January 15, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Phoenix’s Necrambulant drop their second full-length, Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance, via Gore House Productions in March. Check out their shattering second single from the release, “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit.”
Video Premiere: Pants Exploder – “Last Thing He Did Was Lose”
January 15, 2025 Tim Mudd
Brooklyn sludge titans Pants Exploder return with a bone-crushing new track and video, “Last Thing He Did Was Lose.”