Year: 2023

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one final holiday present for you before we close the book on 2023.

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best black metal of 2023, including Immortal, Krieg, Calderum and more!

Feast thine eyes and ears on Canadian hardcore band Hellbent‘s take on a Day-Glo Abortions classic!

Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best death metal of 2023, including Dying Fetus, Plague Bearer, Obituary and more!

Maine melodic black metal duo Obsidian Tongue bring the cold, dark rock on new single “The Stone Heart.”

If you’ve got one minute and 18 seconds, you’ve got the time for noisemongers Dry Socket to clean out your earholes.

For fans of NYC’s Riot, this new series will give the band the chance to get the recognition and credit they deserve.

The guitarist, drummer and bassist of the New England quartet decide to press A to interact with Decibel’s nerdiest column.

Blackened symphonic solo project Exiled Hope share their next chapter of dark fantasy opera with the new single “Over For You.”

Hear new jack death metal quintet Iron Front offer up some old-school slam on new track, “Slam of ’87.”

Bug out with CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP‘s batch of 127 new songs in five minutes.

And thus we come to the last standard edition of Five For Friday for 2023. The rest of the month will be dedicated to death metal and black metal retrospectives, so look out for that!

We have only 150 copies available of Hulder‘s new LP, Verses in Oath, on exclusive Brown inside of Kelly Green vinyl. Don’t blow it.

Fans of blazing fast grindcore with an actual old school-death metal feel need to board the Nak’ay train to hell immediately.

Hear Helsinki quartet Soul Incursion shake off the winter blues with some deathtastic thrash on their new Eternal Darkness EP.

Check out a stream of the new album by Canadian Wacken Battle winners Strigampire!

Denver noise crew Quits deliver a less than bucolic rendering of their hometown.

Atmospheric black metal project Spectral Lore reveal new 20-minute epic from forthcoming full length IV.

Chicago melodic death metal duo Cariosus confront the darkness on their (inter)stellar new single, “Saturn Returns.”

No question Chicago crossover crushers Whut? have a beef with authority in new video for “C.A.P.S.”

Hear and acquire this flexi disc single from Vastum featuring an exclusive new song, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Proggy black metalers Amiensus unveil out a new song and video, “Reverie” from their forthcoming album, Reclamation, out this coming spring via M-Theory Audio.

“I am always open and on the lookout for new bands who are hungry … I’ve got to believe they feel the fire.”

Listen to a new song from Toronto tech-death quintet Apogean.

This week’s new releases include the latest dark serenades from Dusk, Dimmu Borgir, Fugitive Wizard and more!

We have only 110 copies available of Spectral Voice‘s new LP, Sparagmos, on exclusive transparent swamp green & opaque bone vinyl. Don’t blow it.

Hear Portuguese death-doom trio Music in Low Frequencies exorcise their personal demons on new full-length Catharsis

Get down to this groovy instrumental from Fermentor.

The Decibel Magazine Tour returns to the road in February! Tickets on sale Friday, December 8 at 10am local time.