Year: 2023

Watch New Hampshire’s blackened melodic death metal behemoths Begat The Nephilim new Cemetery Man-inspired video.

Who’s deadly, sludgy, catchy and has a new video to show the world? Iron Altar does, exclusively at Decibel!

All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver at the Summit on December 1-2, 2023 are officially on sale. Don’t wait!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Wednesday, July 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Philly post-black metallers The Silver.

Try to stop Dutch metallic hardcore quartet Rise Above, it’s no use. New mini-album on the way.

Watch Virginia progressive thrash unsung heroes Transilience return with the first Kurosawa-inspired single from their new EP Nervesaw.

Hear and acquire this Krieg disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

An interview with Loud as Hell Fest mainman Geoff Bourrie!

Leon del Muerte talks about self-releasing the album from his avant garde mid-’90s-leaning project Lightbreaker album. Read on and stream Annihilation of the Annealids ahead of its release.

Agalloch, Khemmis, Midnight, The Red Chord & more to perform at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2023 at the Summit on December 1-2. Tickets on sale this Friday!

Wake up and mosh! Dead Heat drop their video for “Eyes of the Real.”

Czech black metal cult Somniate raid the library’s vaults for their new concept album inspired by magical realism, We Have Proved Death.

Tex-Mex stoner doom trio Demons My Friends seek a pound of flesh in new video for “Make Them Pay.”

Gilead Media signees Big Garden are the latest — and perhaps greatest — entrant into the early ’90s-style shoegazing, grungy alt-rock revival.

Hear Alaska blasters She melt down ears faster than the Mets’ bullpen.

Hear Indigenous metallers Medicine Horse shed light on the struggles of Cherokee Nation via some of the grooviest riffs on the planet.

Every aspect of it—from the band’s name to the cover image to the songs herein—screams metal, leaving little doubt that Anvil’s second album clearly belongs in our Hall of Fame.

Chicago hardcore band Buggin released their debut album earlier this month. Here’s why you need to hear it.

Hear Tacoma titans Progenitor unleash a new black metal attack with the title track from their forthcoming EP, Eldritch Supremacy, a self-released record out July 14.

This week’s new releases include the latest haunting howls from Tsjuder, Creeping Death, Krigsgrav and more!

Hear Aussie one-man black metal outfit Artanor spin a mystical tale of Meklarah on new single, “Sons of Rock.”

“The crisis is no longer a phase in passing or a simple challenge to overcome, it’s become a permanent condition.”

Cultic make music that alludes to high fantasy sword-and-sorcery tales—King Arthur and Conan the Barbarian. They call it battle punk or dark dungeon metal. We call it awesome.

Hear a track from the multi-versed Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist and Agalloch collaborator, Nathanael Larochette, in advance of the release of his new LP, Old Growth.

Legendary ex-Bethlehem/Pavor vocalist Rainer Landfermann returns with more vocal acrobatics on his latest two-track EP.

For Decibel’s latest cover star, doom and gloom can sometimes give way to fun and games.

Prepare to be trod upon by epically inclined post-black metallers Trounce via their new lyric video for the song “The Wheel.”

The Mound Builders and Lucifist team up for the cassette-only split EP, A Mound of Fists. Listen to an exclusive track from each band.

Pittsburgh’s grungy noise mongers, Mirakler, definitely killed the radio star with their chaotic new video.

Prepare yourself for the firestorm of riffs on “Dragon Sworn,” from the band’s upcoming split with Viserion.