Year: 2019

Left Behind come face to face with threats of Hell on “Eternity of Empty.”

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Recondite Irish black metal project Fuil na Seanchoille make an unexpected but most welcome return with The Crossing. Hear this single track opus in all its sprawling entirety right now.

Seriously, they’re pretty sure it’s just the cold water, but grinders Shrivel Up are still happy to see you.

This Double IPA collaboration between Metal Monkey Brewing and Prosthetic Records will be unveiled at Metal & Beer Fest on December 13-14.

Sweden-based death rockers Death Wolf, featuring Marduk members, unleash new song “The Sword.”

Watch a new video from New Jersey death squad Eye of the Destroyer.

Italian emigre Marco S. finds home in Sweden, birthing first-wave black metal beast Flamekeeper. Check out new track “Nomads of the World Beyond” from debut mini-CD We Who Light the Fire

Dungeon Siege West brings three nights of dark dungeon magic to Seattle. Check out some of the acts performing next weekend via a curated selection of tracks from West festival organizer, Ingsmith.

For anyone wondering what’s going on in the world of punk, Portland’s Frecuencia De Muerte is one of the best bands to watch.

Swiss eccentrics Schammasch follow up a triple album with their boldest statement yet.

Quayde LaHüe, featuring members of Christian Mistress, hit that sweet spot between muscular hard rock and nascent heavy. metal

The Decibel Magazine Tour celebrates its ninth annual run with the ambitious pairing of legendary Norwegian black metal progenitors Mayhem with their countrymates of black ‘n’ roll heroes Abbath. More acts revealed soon. Get tix now!

Experimental dungeon synth producer Francis Roberts returns with a new full length of sprawling and adventurous fantasy ambient.

Old-school death metal revivalist Gruesome have been added to the lineup of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles, taking place on December 13-14 at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA.

BEDTIMEMAGIC aren’t all-caps aren’t yelling at you. In fact, they’re just whispering sweet nothings via Pillow Talk.

It’s time to add German act The Spirit to the anti-cosmic metal of death party. Listen to the first track from their forthcoming melodic black/death stunner here.

Ranking the songs on Carcass‘s Hall of Fame-inducted blasterpiece Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious from least awesome to most awesome.

Watch a psychedelic new video from post-metal trio Sorxe.

From Ohio’s Bather, a video “display of lecherously luscious violence and soul-stripping metal.”

Blackened death/thrash bruisers Dismemberment will release Arc of Ancients, the second album from the Ohio extreme metal quartet, through Creator-Destructor Records this Friday, but why wait to hear it?

Italian thrashers Infection Code get down with the sickness on their seventh LP.

Cult horror film composer extraordinaire Fabio Frizzi wants to take you back to The Beyond. Come take his hand.

Diabolic Night infuse NWOBHM and speed metal with pitch-black infernal power on the new single from their Beyond the Realm LP, “In Retribution.”

Long Island: Where Blast Worship becomes Breakdown Worship.

Raunchy offenders of the faith Nekro Drunkz are back with a new record of depraved death metal. Hear Terminal Perversion in its entirety now.

Danish black metal punks Blot & Bod want to give you a “Hug.”

Megaton Sword deliver true heavy metal on their debut EP, Niralet. Out this Friday, hear the whole thing right here.

Nashville sludge, black metal, death metal, doom and hardcore predators stream their latest for Acteon Records right here, right now.

Tickets for the 2020 Decibel Magazine Tour go on sale Friday, November 8 at 10 AM local time. More acts to be announced in December!