Year: 2019

Lexington’s black metal punks Black Knife conjure a bloody ripper with their debut full length, Spell Caster.

U.S. grindcore legend Jon Chang returns to the blast with No One Knows What the Dead Think.

Boston bruisers Vaulted bring their latest beatdown in the form of “Chaos Reigns.”

Atomic Cretins are suffering from “Spiritual Cancer.”

Their bark is just as nasty as their bite – hear a brand new track from L.A. deathcrushers Teeth.

Finnish forlorn foursome of doom hit like the bottom of a grave on new track, “Häxan,” off debut album, “Let the Night Come,” for Saturnal Records.

Drop in on a little pillow talk with Fallow Heart and Brazilian Black Metal dream-weaver Salqiu

Nightmare Brewing Company is horror and death metal enthusiast Billy Powell’s outlet for flirting with darkness and exorcising his own demons. Glasgow Smile is his latest gruesome gose.

The great Obsequiae has returned to guide us through another series of castles and courtyards on “Ceres in Emerald Streams.”

Chicago’s Mexican Werewolf slay violent smash‘n’roll. Check out this exclusive track premiere from their forthcoming debut album, Murder House.

Repent, for “The End is Nigh” and Officium Triste are the bearers of bad news.

New England crossover warriors High Command bring the hammer down hard with their debut full length. Get brained by this exclusive full album premiere of Beyond the Wall of Desolation now!

Is Blue Cheer‘s Vincebus Eruptum the first metal record? We dive deep to figure it out.

Get to know Mother’s Tomb, and their first four tracks of ripping death/thrash via of Absent Not Dead.

Three years ago they appeared in our Thrown Me a Frickin’ Bone column and tomorrow, Tales of the Tomb, will issue their new EP, Volume Two: Mendacium

Feast your eyes on international black metal duo Asagraum’s new video.

Nomenclature will be out September 27 via Black Lion Records on digipak CD and digitally, but we get the full thing for your lucky earholes right now.

Ghosts of Glaciers carry The Greatest Burden on their new record.

Swedish black metal clan Patronymicon return with their first new work in six years. Stream Ushered Forth By Cloven Tongue in its blazing entirety now.

See Hyderabad, India quartet R.A.I.D. bring the metallic hardcore fire for yourself via this video for “Blind.”

Tom Fischer eventually rediscovered how much he loved the music of Hellhammer and became fixated on finding a way to play it again respectfully. He speaks to Decibel about how it happened and what’s next. 

Explore death metal’s darkest caverns with Iranian riff-cult Nex Carnis on their new two-track EP Black Eternity.

Italian doom metal quartet Bretus unveil and stream new album, “Aion Tetra,” at Decibel. Fans of Candlemass, Isole, and Crypt Sermon take note!

Portland-based corpse defilers Coffin Rot come smashing out of the underground with “Necrotized.”

Whether you’re a death devotee or prog purist, this month’s seasonally-and-topically-appropriate Decibel Meter has some titles for you.

Enjoy the new Gatecreeper video responsibly, and don’t forget to hydrate. 

For some thick and baleful death metal from Spain, jam this exclusive preview of Orthodoxy’s forthcoming debut full length.

What goes around comes around for Polish deathgrinders Straight Hate.

To celebrate this week’s release of the Swedish legends’ 13th album, In Cauda Venenum, we rank Opeth‘s incomparable studio LP discography.

Venom Prison are currently rampaging the U.S. on their first American headlining tour. Get a sense of how that’s gonna go in their new video.