Month: August 2017

Musical rulebreakers Melvins are starring in a new documentary, The Colossus of Destiny . Read an exclusive interview with the film’s director!

Seattle doomsayers and recent Good to Die Records signees Old Iron bring the low end on their latest effort, Lupus Metallorum.

Check out this official lyric video for the title track off the new album from ex-Trouble vocalist Eric Wagner’s psych/doom outfit, Blackfinger.

We look at some of the best metal songs of all time… that have never been performed live.

Cavernlight play emotionally important music.  If you plan to doom today, doom to this.

Go behind the scenes with prolific Russian label Satanath Records.

New York experimental death metallers Pyrrhon are dropping their new album on Friday; we’ve got the full stream for you today.

Stream a new track from Omatai .

Metallic hardcore heroes All Out War are this week’s Best New Noise.

Satanized for your protection: Hear the brand new 7” from Portugal’s beastly black grinders without having to stand and flip anything.

“I quit my job at Apple to start a metal station that sells vinyl records,” Gimme Radio founder and CEO Tyler Lenane tells Decibel. “To a lot of people that probably sounds fucking insane. But I believe in it — and I’m hoping to turn a lot of other heavy music lovers into believers, too.”…

From musical influences like Mercyful Fate, Slayer, and Possessed to filmic influences like Hammer Horror, Sweden’s Vampire are taking death metal into the abyss. Formed in 2011 in Gothenburg, the Swedes — helmed by drummer (now vocalist) Hand of Doom and guitarist Black String — quickly impressed, with the group’s 2012 self-titled demo garnering heavy…

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Exit Eden, Warbeast and Damn Freaks.

Stream the new album from experimental doom outfit Dead Woman’s Ditch.

Eminence is a band from Brazil that plays a distinctly modern form of metal. As you can see from their latest video below for “Minds Apart,” (the song was produced by Tue Madsen, who has worked with bands like Heaven Shall Burn, Meshuggah and Halford), they mix groove, metalcore, some electronic influences, and deep vocals…

On this week’s Demo:listen we are possessed by the spirit of Iceland’s Vanvid.

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Stream a new song from Lifetime Shitlist!

Wisconsin-based deathcore outfit Wicked World have quickly ascended through the ranks in the heavy music community, constantly releasing new music and touring with an impressive fervor. Their latest release is the music video for a new song, “Void,” which you can stream below. “Void” is the follow-up to to Wicked World’s 2016 EP, Witch Hunt. While the band still…

The making of Nuclear Assault’s ‘Game Over.’

New York thrash metal heroes Nuclear Assault join the ranks of the Decibel Hall of Fame this month with the induction of their landmark 1986 debut album, Game Over. You can read the extensive story about the making of the album in the September issue of Decibel (available here), which includes interviews with each member of Nuclear Assault who performed on…

Ranking the songs on Anthrax‘s classic, Decibel Hall of Fame-inducted, Among the Living, from worst to best.

A couple months ago, with an almost devil-may-care, casual shoulder shrug, one of my all-time favourite bands in the history of forever, Italian hardcore legends Raw Power, quietly released their new album. We caught up with vocalist Mauro Codeluppi to discuss growing old, not giving a shit and the time they played with G’N’R.

Stream a new track from symphonic black metal group Mist of Misery now.

Stream the entirety of the brutalizing split between From the Hellmouth and Mutilatred now.

Hot on the heels of the towering The Grand Annihilation, Tombs mastermind Mike Hill returns to walk us through another province of his ongoing aural apocalypse with his chilling dark ambient project Vasilek. “I would like listeners to separate themselves from what they normally expect from music,” Hill tells Decibel. “These are not ‘songs’ in…

Stream a new song from occult group Demon Eye now!

What happens when you ask extreme metal luminaries to crack open their dream journals and share their most memorable nightmares, dreams, hallucinations, and astral projections? Dream Bloody Gore. This month, Chuck Sherwood of death metal titans Incantation invites Decibel to crawl into his unconscious mind. In the immortal words of Chuck Schuldiner, “See past the…

Music journalism’s relationship to economic reality has always been shaky. Here are some ideas of where that relationship might need to go.

Watch the video for “The Ice Lord” by Firebreather now!