Year: 2019

Expain premieres video. Decibel offers second-by-second commentary.

Celebrated True Norwegian Black Metal music photographer Peter Beste talks battle vests, image capture, subculture, metal, and his related new book Defenders of the Faith.

On the eve of his own U.S. tour, Orange Goblin frontman Ben Ward provides five pro tips that every band who is booking their own tour should practice.

Canadian hardcore collective Kennedy bring the sweat and screams in the video for their new single, “Blood & Soil.”

Watch a new video from stoner rock kings Zed.

The Darkness‘s 2003 classic, Permission to Land, is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Finnish black death duo Concrete Winds rise from the remains of Vorum with a devastating new full length. Check out Primitive Force in its entirety right now.

Don’t crack just yet, Cleveland blasters Jesusegg are here to break you.

Poles Browar Witnica S.A. continue the age-old Baltic Porter tradition.

Get ready to lose a few IQ points. The new Devourment is here.

Bob Bagchus, of Hellehond, Infidel Reich, Beast Of Revelation & Siege Of Power fame, Lists His Top Five Venom Songs.

Two out of three records reviewed this week give our bird’s feathered ass a good tail-kicking.

Today’s black metal haunting comes courtesy of Zuriaake, a band excelling at both innovation and reverence for the second-wave sound.

Over 100 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $3.00 each! Many of them down to the last copies. Hurry, sale ends Sunday at midnight EST.

Urns add some weird and epic stoner smog to the Pittsburgh atmosphere. Check out the exclusive stream of their self-titled debut before the record drops tomorrow.

Witness the beast with seven heads by listening to this new Cloud Rat banger.

Snow Burial “Sever the Bloodline” with a cut from their upcoming album, Ostrava.

Re-examining how Randy Holden foreshadowed Eyehategod’s down and dirty sludge in 1969 on Population II.

Check out the latest single from Norwegian death metallers Blood Red Throne‘s most old-school release since 2003’s landmark Affiliated With the Suffering.

We resurrect a previously unreleased Decibel trend piece from 2015 on the French Noise Rock scene.

Thirty years in Strung Out remains king of the metal-tinged punk hardcore mountain with its ninth full-length.

Deserted is the title of the forthcoming sophomore LP from Arizona dry-heat death dealers Gatecreeper.

Mysterious Danish black metallers Geistaz’ika punish old-school BM on new album, Trolddomssejd I Skovens Dybe Kedel, their first for the Signal Rex label.

Don’t lead a life left behind; tune into the latest single from the long-gestating sophomore LP from Norwegian punk metallers Agenda right now!

You should be listening to Gulch.

Stream a track from the forthcoming new album by mysterious Portuguese black metal act Black Cilice.

Get amped on Brooklyn grindcore/powerviolence duo Stimulant.

Watch the first video from the upcoming new album, The Burning Dawn, from Atlanta-based black ‘n’ roll crew Cloak.

Check out this exclusive premiere of the new EP from German death doomers Gravehammer.

Northwest death metallers deliver a twisted reeking mass of repulsive decay — and we LOVE it.