Year: 2019

Album Review: Pelican – ‘Nighttime Stories’

June 3, 2019

Instru-metal heroes return with their first full-length LP in six years.

Video Premiere: Amarok – ‘Devoured’

June 3, 2019

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

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.

Fallow Heart: Heavy Meta Part 1

May 31, 2019

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

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

The Taiwanese black metal band Inferno Requiem just dropped a brand new demo. Stream it in full now!

Demo:listen: Omen Stones

May 31, 2019

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

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by June 4 to obtain a HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc from Norse death metal legends Cadaver!

Avail – “Over the James”

May 30, 2019

Avail’s melodic hardcore classic Over the James enters the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Video Premiere: False — ‘Neither Path Nor Gate’

May 29, 2019

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

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

Hath assemble their ranking of the five most-metal video games.

Full Album Stream: Hellish Grave – “Hell No Longer Waits”

May 28, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revisiting the brilliant bleak hellscape of crust apocalypse that is His Hero Is Gone‘s 1997 album Monuments to Thieves.

Album Review: Haunt – ‘If Icarus Could Fly’

May 23, 2019

The ever-prolific Trevor William Church returns with the strongest collection of Haunt anthems to date.