Year: 2019
Blast Worship: Takafumi Matsubara
September 3, 2019 Gene Meyer
Former Gridlink axeman returns with the aptly-titled Strange, Beautiful, Fast.
Track Premiere: Engulf – ‘From Chasms Deep’
September 2, 2019 Emily Bellino
US death metal entity Engulf emerges “From Chasms Deep.”
Album Premiere: Runespell ‘Voice of Opprobrium’
September 2, 2019 Chris Dick
One-man Australian black metal act Runespell premiere new album “Voice of Opprobrium” at Decibel as the wings of fate flutter.
Fallow Heart: Gemini One: Blunt Body Theory
August 30, 2019 Forrest Pitts
Come exist above the threshold of consciousness with German doom duo Gemini One.
Full Album Stream: Inferno Requiem – “Shanhai”
August 30, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Elite Taiwanese black metal stronghold Inferno Requiem unleash their third album on the twentieth anniversary of their formation. Check out Shanhai in all its hellfire-brandishing glory right now.
Track Premiere: Astaroth Incarnate- “I Am Fire / I Am Death (Alpha)”
August 30, 2019 J. Andrew
Claiming the throne of what they call “Apocalyptic Metal,” Astaroth Incarnate‘s new song is a storm of symphonic black and death metal glory.
Decibel Meter: Classics and New Titles, Minus ‘tushka
August 30, 2019 Decibel Magazine
Batushka, Faketushka, Fauxtushka, all the Tushkas; or none, really, as there is no ‘tushka in this month’s Decibel Meter.
Track Premiere: Cain – ‘Crucify’
August 30, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Don’t “crucify” yourself for sleeping on cult doom heroes Cain when they were around in early ’90s. Rise Above has you covered with an essential new reissue.
Demo:listen: Sun Descends Black
August 30, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Discover the grinding black death of Little Rock’s Sun Descends Black on this week’s Demo:listen.
Track Premiere: Workshed – ‘Safety Behaviours’
August 30, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Hear ex-Cathedral members Adam Lehan and Mark Ramsay Wharton resurface in crushing new doom band.
Mayhem Release New Song “Worthless Abominations Destroyed”
August 30, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Pre-orders for forthcoming LP Daemon from the black metal godfathers also now available.
Full EP Stream: Mutilatred – “Ingested Filth”
August 29, 2019 Emily Bellino
Hear one of the year’s best brutal death metal releases: Mutilatred‘s Ingested Filth.
Full Album Stream: Cliterati — “Ugly Truths/Beautiful Lies”
August 29, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Cliterati is bringing the fire on its righteous crusty punk hardcore rager Ugly Truths/Beautiful Lies streaming in full right now.
Track Premiere: H.P. Lovecraft/Fabio Frizzi — “Night-Gaunts”
August 29, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Legendary horror film composer Fabio Frizzi talks helping to bring H.P. Lovecraft’s poetry to life on I Notturni Di Yuggoth.
Video Premiere: Mars Red Sky – ‘The Proving Grounds’
August 29, 2019 Emily Bellino
Stoner rockers Mars Red Sky will attempt to complete The Task Eternal this fall when they release their fourth album via Listenable Records.
Anno Domini: A Decibel Guide to Bands so Extreme they Became Two Bands
August 29, 2019 Greg Pratt
A Decibel guide to bands who were just too extreme to be just one band.
Full Album Stream: Hope Drone – “Void Lustre”
August 29, 2019 Emily Bellino
Embrace your Void Lustre and stream the new album from Hope Drone.
Full Album Stream: Imperium Dekadenz – “When We Are Forgotten”
August 29, 2019 J. Andrew
If you like a rich atmosphere that still packs the punch of speed and ferocity, the new offering from Imperium Dekadenz should be your autumn soundtrack.
Track Premiere: Sinking the Yacht (Rock) with Seizures’ “Toxophola”
August 29, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Don’t ya just love it when a band appropriately names itself?
Video Premiere: Eclipser – ‘Coagulation’
August 28, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Get to know Ottawa black/death crushers Eclipser.
If You Kill It, They Will Come: Full Terror Assault Fest Turns Five
August 28, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Full Terror Assault is celebrating five years of open air fest mayhem with a wild, brutal four-day party next week.
Track Premiere: Dysrhythmia — “Twin Stalkers”
August 28, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Underground Philadelphia progressive metal kings Dysrhythmia are launching a new mind-bending blitz and we’ve got the exclusive first salvo streaming now.
Cattle Decapitation, Atheist, Primitive Man, Author & Punisher and Vitriol Announced for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles PRE-FEST 2019
August 28, 2019 Albert Mudrian
See you at the Regent on Thursday, December 12 as part of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA’s official PRE-FEST!
Track Premiere: Vokonis – “AntlerQueen”
August 28, 2019 Sean Frasier
Swedish psychedelic spellcasters Vokonis worship at the riff-adorned throne of the “AntlerQueen.”
Track Premiere: Child Bite – ‘The Masochist’
August 27, 2019 Emily Bellino
Split’s about to hit the fan: Child Bite and Ringworm team up for a hell of a split.
Track Premiere: Slutvomit – ‘Scythe of Mass Damnation’
August 27, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Hostile US black death group Slutvomit return more depraved than ever. Hear a track from their sophomore album Copulation of Cloven Hooves right now.
Blast Worship: Vasoconstriction
August 27, 2019 Gene Meyer
Their blood vessels might be narrowed, but Vasoconstriction‘s grindcore influences are pretty wide.
Video Premiere: Apotheus – ‘Caves of Steel’
August 26, 2019 Decibel Magazine
Portuguese progressive metallers Apotheus expose the “horrors and injustices of this world” in their latest video, “Caves of Steel.”
Full Album Stream: Antichrist Siege Machine – “Schism Perpetration”
August 26, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Richmond devastators Antichrist Siege Machine show their true form on debut full length. Hear Schism Perpetration in all its unholy glory right now.
Video Premiere: Joy – ‘Calloused’
August 26, 2019 Emily Bellino
Watch Joy‘s ferocious new video for “Calloused.”
