Year: 2019

Take an expertly guided tour of heavy metal horror soundscape via the lush, brilliantly curated new book Blood on Black Wax.

Decibel columnist and Krieg vocalist Neill Jameson encourages you to maybe enjoy something good, like the end of Game of Thrones, for once in your life.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare False flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new track via the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Louisiana crust fiends Pale Misery offer “No Choice” but to listen to their newest blackened ripper.

Don’t bring Yellow Tail to the next party to you don’t really want to go to – bring Bum Wine, the new EP from noise rock faves Intercourse.

Shadowy Portuguese unit Black Mold will soon release their new demonstration of black metal punk violence. Stream it in full now.

D.C.-area grinders Needle do the damage.

Vale deliver one of the year’s filthiest debut albums in the form of Burden of Sight.

The Six Most Metal Breweries attended the third annual Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly last month, and crafted this extensive video recap.

Worship crusty death with Burial Remains.

Current and ex-members of Watchtower, Tryptykon, Hate Eternal, Ephel Duath join forces again in progressive metal juggernaut Howling Sycamore.

Edinburgh-based black metal duo Valaraukar stream new track “Visions of Truth Amidst Black Fume” off their Iron Bonehead debut “Demonian Abyssal Visions.”

A rare clean sweep this week for our friend who shits in a cage.

Sizing up a review’s target relates far more to spirit than to ethics.

Atlanta’s dark death metal heroes return with their latest devastating EP, “Holy Rotten Blood,” out today on Dark Descent Records.

This week San Francisco hellraisers Molten take Demo:listen by storm.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the July issue of Decibel, featuring a flexi disc with a brand new song from False, available now.

Wizard Rifle make a lot of noise for a duo.

Don’t sit on your ass all goddamn day – check out the Absence‘s crushing cover of a Cali-punk classic.

To celebrate the release of Full of Hell’s new album, Weeping Choir, we caught up with drummer Dave Bland to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Hear the first new Cable song in a decade now.

Fans of Deafheaven, Oathbreaker, Envy, Birds In Row, Astronoid and Sigur Rós should tune into the sophomore album from Austin’s Glassing.

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Ohio rock quartet on their new LP, their new label and “finding a way out of the bullshit.”

The latest track from German blackened death outfit Temple Koludra is a genre and border busting adventure in heavy metal transcendence.

Heavy bangs the head that hears the Crown album from Cleveland post-black metallers Axioma. Jam a new track now.

Douse yourself in Deathooze, the debut full length from California death metal sickos Dipygus. Check it out now!

Full of Hell push the limits of grind at an accelerated clip.

Hex Machine fuse noise rock, sludge and Dischord-style punk on “Scimitar Blues.”

Spain’s Calyx play black metal full of ancient feelings and transfixing innovation. Check out their debut full length now!