Year: 2019

Full Album Stream: Illyrian – ‘The Entity, Unknown’

July 25, 2019

Calgary’s Illryian are dropping their second album of razor-sharp thrash tomorrow, and we’ve got a stream of it for you today.

Gatecreeper to Release New Track “Social Decay” via Decibel Flexi Series!

July 25, 2019

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by August 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc from U.S. death metal crew Gatecreeper!

Track Premiere: Tenebrae in Perpetuum – ‘Oscillazione Ipnotica Profonda’

July 25, 2019

Anorexia Obscura , Tenebrae in Perpetuum‘s first new LP in a decade drops August 30 but we’ve got an new ice-cold blaster from it for you right here.

Track Premiere: White Ward – ‘Love Exchange Failure’

July 24, 2019

You know how you’re always thinking, “this black metal is great, but what it really needs is more saxophone?” Well, Ukraine post-black metallers White Ward have read your mind.

Album Premiere: Death Before Dishonor “Unfinished Business”

July 24, 2019

Boston hardcore institution Death Before Dishonor returns after a decade with the ferocious new full-length Unfinished Business.

Track Premiere: Hagzissa – ‘Moonshine Glance (An Iron Seed in Sour Soil)’

July 23, 2019

Check out a song from the forthcoming debut full length from spirits-guzzling Austrian black metal warlocks Hagzissa.

Blast Worship: BADxMOUTH

July 23, 2019

We only have good things to say about Portland, OR grinders BADxMOUTH.

Track Premiere: Hippie Death Cult – ‘Unborn’

July 22, 2019

Come join us as we debut a fuzzy new jam from Portland, OR doom crew Hippie Death Cult.

Q&A: Aaron Charles of Falls of Rauros Vows to Conquer the Ocean

July 22, 2019

Aaron Charles of Falls of Rauros is interviewed by Decibel Magazine for new album, Patterns in Mythology, out now on Gilead Media.

Fallow Heart: Heavy Meta Part 4 (Voivod, Crowbar & Monstrance on Album Reviews)

July 19, 2019

In the fourth installment on our Heavy Meta series, Forrest Pitts examines album reviews from the artists’ perspective.

Follow Cerebral Rot’s Odius Descent Into Decay

July 19, 2019

Cerebral Rot knows how to do OSDM right in 2019: take a handful of key bands as inspiration, focus on hooks and atmosphere, and keep it filthy and brutal.

Demo:listen: Sedimentum

July 19, 2019

This week Demo:listen investigates a massive subterranean commotion in Québec City.

Video Premiere: Sanction – ‘Paralysis’

July 18, 2019

Culled from their new album, Broken in Refraction, “Paralysis” is a quick track that brings beatdown after beatdown over an all-red video.

Primitive Origins: New Trolls’ “UT”

July 18, 2019

Re-examining New Trolls’ 1972 prog-rock odyssey UT.

Track Premiere: Getting Crazy-Weird with OXX’s “Birthday Song”

July 18, 2019

Nefarious Industries will release The Skeleton Is Just A Coat Hanger; These Are The Black Strings That Make You Dance on LP and digital platforms on August 16th.

Full Album Stream + Interview: Kommodus – “An Imperial Sun Rises”

July 17, 2019

This is the fourth interview we featured with black metallers Kommodus since their Demo:listen debut in 2017.

Anthrax – “Fistful of Metal”

July 17, 2019

Anthrax‘s seminal debut album, Fistful of Metal is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Back From the Dead, Again: Matt Fox Talks Zombie Apocalypse Resurrection, Shai Hulud’s Future

July 17, 2019

Shai Hulud side project Zombie Apocalypse is outta the grave again…and metal thrashing mad!

Full Album Stream: Shades of Deep Water – ‘Death’s Threshold’

July 17, 2019

Finnish solo funeral doom project Shades of Deep Water crosses Death’s Threshold on their new LP.

Full Album Stream + Interview: Sekkusu – “Satyrömania”

July 16, 2019

Detroit metal punks Sekkusu unleash the Wild Spirit on debut full length, Satyrömania.

Full Album Stream: Vomit Angel – “Imprint of Extinction”

July 16, 2019

Check out the debut full length from Denmark’s gnarliest death grinders Vomit Angel.

Batushka Grace the Cover of Decibel’s September Issue

July 16, 2019

We have a limited number of advance copies of the August issue of Decibel, featuring a flexi disc with an exclusive new recording from Exhorder, available now. Don’t blow it.

Blast Worship: Powerviolence Round-Up

July 16, 2019

Get to know powerviolence “hopefuls” Sick Shit, Medication Time, Fissure, Hong Kong Fuck You and more.

Track Premiere: Shock Narcotic – ‘Erratic Smearing Vitals’

July 15, 2019

Former and current members of the Dillinger Escape Plan, Child Bite, Shit Life, the Black Dahlia Murder and Battlecross join forces to grind faces.