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STARTS TODAY! The Decibel Magazine Tour 2026 Featuring CRYPTOPSY, NECROT, SPIRIT ADRIFT and BLOOD MONOLITH!
April 30, 2026
The 13th annual Decibel Magazine Tour kicks off in Worcester, MA TONIGHT! Get your tickets now as we spend the next month trekking across North America!
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Video Premiere: Achryma – “Hollowlight”
May 12, 2026
New Belgian blackgaze outfit, Achryma, take us in the studio for the morose title track to their new Hollowlight EP.
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
Khemmis
June 2026 [#260]
Includes exclusive limited edition Hellripper flexi disc
The Lightness of Being! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Suffocation’s Pierced From Within, At the Gates, Nervosa, Frozen Soul, Elder, Ghoul and more
Don’t Sleep on Gozu’s New Stoner Metal Rager, Gozu VI
May 12, 2026 Emily Bellino
Boston stoner quartet Gozu bring the riffs on their new album.
Blast Worship: Common Decency
May 12, 2026 Gene Meyer
Have you no Common Decency? Then start with their new split release with Self Love.
Track Premiere: Godless – ‘Numenlagneia’
May 11, 2026 Emily Bellino
Chilean death metal stalwartsGodless reveal the latest single from their upcoming album.
Five For Friday: May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026 J. Andrew
New Darkthrone! New Draconian! New Panopticon! It’s a big week of new releases from some big names, check it out!
Suffocation – Pierced from Within
May 7, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Long Island death metal kings Suffocation earn their second HOF induction via Pierced From Within.
Interview: Inspidus Talk ‘Nearest Dusk,’ Artistic Expression, and Busking
May 7, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Meet Denver’s only melodic/progressive busking death metal band, Insipidus.
Full Album Stream: laCasta –Olibanvm
May 6, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Where there’s smoke, there’s black metal, and Italian ragers laCasta are engulfed in the acrid fumes of their new full length Olibanvm.
Album Premiere: Lago – Vigil
May 6, 2026 Tim Mudd
The Phoenix, Arizona death metal outfit Lago returns with Vigil, a dense, suffocating, and surgically cold new full-length that pushes their bleak atmosphere into sharper, more punishing territory.
Blast Worship: Vixen Maw
May 5, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear Vixen Maw deliver absolute audio mayhem with Pervertigo.
Track Premiere: Wyrmhaven – “Unrelenting Storms”
May 4, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Tucson crushers Wyrmhaven whip up a melodic death metal monsoon on new track “Unrelenting Storms.”
