Year: 2019

Cannibal Corpse announce North American tour.

Doom metal heroes Goatess unveil and stream new track “Dunerider” on Decibel. New album, Blood and Wine, out on Svart Records.

In the fifth installment on our Heavy Meta series, metal journalists Jeff Wagner, Ula Gehret, Joseph Schafer, Daniel Lake and Adem Tepedelen return for another round of heavy metal record review questioning.

Estonia’s Swarn is the latest in a much-welcome line of bands that bring crust, hardcore, death metal and black metal together in excellent style.

On their overdue sophomore album, Pennsylvania’s Torture Ascendancy 1307 attack with apex death metal prowess. Stream D.E.M.O.S. in its entirety now.

Skip the mall – or wherever people shop in 2019 – and hit the Decibel webstore for a special back-to-school deal on Decibel shirts!

Stream two new album from some of Estonia’s most-promising death metal bands.

Mare showed the world how experimental sludge and post-metal should be done with their only release, 2004’s self-titled EP.

INUS – “a pre-postapocalyptic, post-honky-tonk-prog-skronk, space Tropicalia, math-lounge powersilence trio”

Howling Giant ride the through the ashes of stoner rock stagnation with the first track from their new LP The Space Between Worlds.

Don’t fear the Space Ranger (or Reaper) from Decibel faves – and fellow metalheads – DC Brau.

Extremely black clouds and soaring guitar leads gather over this track premiere courtesy Madrid melodic death metallers Eternal Storm.

Catch Hank von Hell is U.S. starting in August, but don’t expect to bake a motherfuckin’ in his green room. The ingredients aren’t on his rider.

Decibel found shelter from storm clouds in a Baroness concert on the Indianapolis stop of their Gold & Grey tour.

Travel throughout GWAR‘s history in a new card game.

Check out A Flock Slaughtered, the Milwaukee extremists’ second album in all its drug-fueled, satanic glory.

Dutch black death warmongers launch a warning missile to signal their forthcoming new album.

Get ready to surf the wave of gore-grinding godliness from Prague trio Jig-Ai.

All hail the new flesh, and the new track from noise-rock crushers Meatwound.

The Kennedy Veil are back with a new vocalist and the first song since 2017’s Imperium.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Exhorder flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new live version of a demo-era classic via the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Heavy metal vocalist Joseph Michael (Witherfall, Sanctuary) lists his Top 5 albums that influenced his singing ability and style.

This month’s Decibel Meter withstands the fall of time, but not quite at the the heart of winter, for a summer/winter battle courtesy of Abbath.

Our bird delivers the (unfettered, but definitely feathered) word on two new underground metal releases.

Metal Monkey (IL), Societe (CA), Modern Times (CA) and Brimming Horn Meadery (DE) join a murders row of brewtality this December in California.

Witch Vomit‘s newest offering, due out on August 30 via 20 Buck Spin, is dark, punishing and catchy – death metal made the right way.

Stream the first song from Draagyn.

Check out this exclusive premiere of the Dutch black metal/noise artists’ sophomore album.

After a 21-year run with the metal heroes, Des Kensel is officially out of High on Fire.

The wait for Tomb Mold’s next death metal masterpiece is over before it began