Year: 2019

Decibel lists the Top 5 Unsung Symphonic Black Metal Albums with Bishop of Hexen, Diabolical Masquerade, Anorexia Nervosa, Gehenna and SiriuS.

The voice of a generation – and Hatebeak – gets metal thrashing mad this week.

Enter an eternal autumn of moors and misty fields, walk through blackwater parks of rain without end, and look to the October rust as night shades descend.

Portland’s Witch Mountain doom cult premiere their brand new banger, “Priceless Pain.”

This week Demo:listen introduces our readers to enigmatic German black doom sludgesmiths Turin Horse.

Fister offer a bleak take on Darkthrone’s “Too Old, Too Cold.”

“Just Metal” tickets for for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA are $25 (service fees included!) until Sept 22. Only 50 remain. Hurry!

Revisiting the rot ‘n’ roll of Blackstar‘s only album, 1997’s Barbed Wire Soul.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, September 30 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Swedish death dealers Entombed A.D.!

Danish black metal witchcraftsmen Denial Of God will soon release The Hallow Mass, their first full length album in seven years. Check out this exclusive premiere of “Undead Hunger” now.

This barleywine has a lot going on, including vanilla and oak-y notes (from the Kentucky bourbon barrels), making it a perfect beer to grab and uncork in early autumn.

Nick Heigelmann of the great 90s melodic death metal act The Year of Our Lord returns with Sun in Shadows, a preconception-obliterating new record, and — seen for the first time ever here — a new video.

Brain Tentacles stay weird.

Bones dig up a festering new track.

Detroit thrash city crossover crushers Plague Years unveil new video, announce October tour dates.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the November issue of Decibel, featuring a flexi disc with an exclusive new previously unreleased track from Opeth, available now. Don’t blow it.

Leeds grinders Ona Snop deliver spazztic blurs of goofy buzzsaw powerviolence that are as blistering as they are irreverent.

Get an afternoon dose of metal thrashing death from L.A.’s Infirmity!

German black metal upstarts Grabunhold stream new EP, Unter dem Banner der Toten, their first for German indie Iron Bonehead Productions.

“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.” —Robert G. Ingersoll

“Just Metal” tickets for for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA are just $25 until Sept 22. Only 100 available. Hurry!

Trevor William Church can’t, won’t and don’t stop – releases a pair of new split singles from heavy metal heroes Haunt

For those who like their black metal to take them places beyond Earth’s tired atmosphere, Finland’s Vesperith is the band to watch.

Freshly minted thrashers Return Fire will self-release their nine-track debut on September 27, but we have a first taste for you right NOW.

On this full moon Friday the 13th, Demo:listen has the pleasure of introducing primitive black death bringers Golgot.

Hellhorse prepare for “The Long Drought.”

Oxalate give us some good ol’ death metal fun.

Ranking the songs on The Accüsed’s Hall of Fame-inducted 1989 album More Fun than an Open Casket Funeral! from worst to best.

Stow this in your earholes, new noise rock radness from Chicago’s Luggage.

Charm City death metallers Visceral Disgorge unleash the gore on new album, “Slithering Evisceration,” their first for Agonia Records.