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Q&A: London May On His New Black Metal Comedy “Brutal Realty, Inc.” and What Hardcore Taught Him
July 19, 2019
Former DC hardcore hero London May on his new “black metal comedy” Brutal Realty, Inc.
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Video Premiere: Detach the Islands – ‘Love is the Miracle We Fabricate’
July 23, 2019
It’s time to get spastic with Detach the Islands.
Editorial
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Sacred Reich’s “Heal”
July 11, 2019
Looking back and justifying Sacred Reich‘s underrated 1996 album Heal, which doesn’t really sound like what you remember it sounding like.
Latest Issue
Abbath - Out from the Cold
August 2019 [#178]
Includes exclusive limited edition Cadaver flexi disc
Featuring: Nails, Life of Agony, Pelican, False, a special report on Maryland Deathfest XVII, the Decibel Hall of Fame: the making of Anthrax’s Fistful of Metal, Full of Hell, Lingua Ignota, Falls of Rauros and more
Track Premiere: Hagzissa – ‘Moonshine Glance (An Iron Seed in Sour Soil)’
July 23, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Check out a song from the forthcoming debut full length from spirits-guzzling Austrian black metal warlocks Hagzissa.
Blast Worship: BADxMOUTH
July 23, 2019 Gene Meyer
We only have good things to say about Portland, OR grinders BADxMOUTH.
Track Premiere: Hippie Death Cult – ‘Unborn’
July 22, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Come join us as we debut a fuzzy new jam from Portland, OR doom crew Hippie Death Cult.
Track Premiere: Mother Moon – ‘Chrysanthemum’
July 22, 2019 Vince Bellino
Listen to a new song from Baltimore atmospheric black metal group Mother Moon.
Q&A: Aaron Charles of Falls of Rauros Vows to Conquer the Ocean
July 22, 2019 Chris Dick
Aaron Charles of Falls of Rauros is interviewed by Decibel Magazine for new album, Patterns in Mythology, out now on Gilead Media.
Fallow Heart: Heavy Meta Part 4 (Voivod, Crowbar & Monstrance on Album Reviews)
July 19, 2019 Forrest Pitts
In the fourth installment on our Heavy Meta series, Forrest Pitts examines album reviews from the artists’ perspective.
Follow Cerebral Rot’s Odius Descent Into Decay
July 19, 2019 J. Andrew
Cerebral Rot knows how to do OSDM right in 2019: take a handful of key bands as inspiration, focus on hooks and atmosphere, and keep it filthy and brutal.
Demo:listen: Sedimentum
July 19, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen investigates a massive subterranean commotion in Québec City.
Video Premiere: Sanction – ‘Paralysis’
July 18, 2019 Vince Bellino
Culled from their new album, Broken in Refraction, “Paralysis” is a quick track that brings beatdown after beatdown over an all-red video.
Primitive Origins: New Trolls’ “UT”
July 18, 2019 Greg Pratt
Re-examining New Trolls’ 1972 prog-rock odyssey UT.