Year: 2019
Album Review: Pelican – ‘Nighttime Stories’
June 3, 2019 Jeff Treppel
Instru-metal heroes return with their first full-length LP in six years.
Video Premiere: Amarok – ‘Devoured’
June 3, 2019 Emily Bellino
What do Amarok, break dancing and Bell Witch have in common? Find out by watching the new video for “Devoured.”
Q&A: Swallow The Sun’s Juha Raivio Is Blinded By The Light
June 3, 2019 Chris Dick
Finnish doom-death metallers Swallow The Sun stare death in the face on new album, “When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light.” A Q&A with Juha Raivio.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo Pecks on The Rods, Combichrist and Cave In
May 31, 2019 Blake Harrison
A rare clean sweep this week for our friend who shits in a cage.
Fallow Heart: Heavy Meta Part 1
May 31, 2019 Forrest Pitts
Longtime metal journalists Jeff Wagner and Ula Gehret go deep on the mechanics of the heavy metal record review.
Sxuperion: Giving Voice to the Brutality of the Cosmos
May 31, 2019 J. Andrew
For those of you who like your death metal dark, eerie and evil, Sxuperion might be your new favorite jam. It helps if you’re into space and stuff too.
Full Demo Stream: Inferno Requiem – “Wolf from Onon Realm”
May 31, 2019 Dutch Pearce
The Taiwanese black metal band Inferno Requiem just dropped a brand new demo. Stream it in full now!
Track Premiere: Violent Life Violent Death – ‘Pray’
May 31, 2019 Albert Mudrian
NC’s VLVD decree viva la EP!
Demo:listen: Omen Stones
May 31, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen features Richmond’s hard-hitting and mercurial Omen Stones.
Cadaver to Release “Circle of Morbidity” via Decibel Flexi Series!
May 31, 2019 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by June 4 to obtain a HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc from Norse death metal legends Cadaver!
Hall of Fame Countdown: Grief’s “Come to Grief”
May 30, 2019 Greg Pratt
Ranking the songs on Grief‘s 1994 sludge classic Come to Grief from worst to best.
Avail – “Over the James”
May 30, 2019 Greg Pratt
Avail’s melodic hardcore classic Over the James enters the Decibel Hall of Fame.
Track Premiere: Berthold City – ‘What Time Takes’
May 30, 2019 Emily Bellino
Find out “What Time Takes” with a new Berthold City ripper.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Firestone Walker 22 (XXII) Anniversary Ale
May 29, 2019 Nick Green
Firestone Walker got you one of the world’s best strong American ales for their 22nd anniversary.
Video Premiere: False — ‘Neither Path Nor Gate’
May 29, 2019 Shawn Macomber
False adds a striking visual component to the band’s recent Decibel Flexi Series offering “Neither Path Nor Gate.”
Album Review: Gaahls WYRD – ‘GastiR – Ghosts Invited’
May 29, 2019 Chris Dick
The controversial ex-Gorgoroth frontman returns with what may be his best work to date.
Hath Pick the Five Most-Metal Video Games
May 28, 2019 Emily Bellino
Hath assemble their ranking of the five most-metal video games.
Full Album Stream: Hellish Grave – “Hell No Longer Waits”
May 28, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Don’t miss the sophomore album from São Paulo’s best kept black speed secret, Hellish Grave. Check out Hell No Longer Waits now!
Blast Worship: Ixias
May 28, 2019 Gene Meyer
Decibel‘s weekly grindcore fix returns to our nation’s capitol for a second week in a row.
Album Premiere: Funeral Storm “Arcane Mysteries”
May 27, 2019 Chris Dick
Greek black metal trio Funeral Storm–featuring Varathron’s Necroabyssious–stream debut full-length, Arcane Mysteries, at Decibel.
Lvcifyre Unleashes Their Brutal Sacrament
May 24, 2019 J. Andrew
Harsh, heavy, evil. London’s Lvcifyre unleashes it’s latest blast of death metal fury on their new EP. Check out “The Greater Curse” here.
Full Album Stream: Kull – ‘Exile’
May 24, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Awaited debut album Exile by the members of the Sheffield’s Bal-Sagoth out now via Black Lion Records.
Full Album Stream: Evil Angel – “Unholy Evil Metal”
May 24, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Diehard Finnish black death band Evil Angel return after ten years with a new full length. Check out Unholy Evil Metal now!
FLASH SALE! Everything 20% Off in the Decibel Store This Memorial Day Weekend ONLY!
May 24, 2019 Decibel Magazine
All subscriptions, books, back issues, flexi boxes, shirts, hoodies, glassware in the Decibel store is 20% this weekend only! Love, Decibel.
Track Premiere & Interview: Møl – ‘Airy’
May 23, 2019 Emily Bellino
Hear a remastered version of a song from Møl‘s first EP and read a new interview with the band.
Retrospective: His Hero Is Gone’s “Monuments to Thieves”
May 23, 2019 Greg Pratt
Revisiting the brilliant bleak hellscape of crust apocalypse that is His Hero Is Gone‘s 1997 album Monuments to Thieves.
“Grindcore Violinist” Joey Molinaro Has a New Album Out.
May 23, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We talk to him about it and touring the US and Europe via motorcycle
Album Review: Haunt – ‘If Icarus Could Fly’
May 23, 2019 Sean Frasier
The ever-prolific Trevor William Church returns with the strongest collection of Haunt anthems to date.
