Year: 2023

Venomous Concept, featuring Kevin Sharp (Lock Up, ex-Brutal Truth) and Shane Embury (Napalm Death/Brujeria/et al), premiere new single “Fractured!” Watch the video NOW!

Hear Boston powerviolence/grindcore attack Horrible Earth accelerate the end times on their new record, Weakened By Civilization.

Hardcore lifer Damien Moyal (ex Morning Again, Shai Hulud, Culture, As Friends Rust) gets his sad on in the new Damien Done video, “Pray For Me.”

Hear Richard “The Grindfather” Johnson become “The Electrouncle” on new electronic project Digital Negative.

For a change of (still fast) pace, Blast Worship investigates the thoroughly not sketchy, crust-fueled blast beats of Germans Abyssal Worm.

Street Tombs‘ scrumptious death metal is what’s for dinner on “Devour.”

Though Palace of Worms is now over, hear Cabal briefly breathe new life into this project’s doomed carcass and read an interview with Balan here.

Try on the jester’s hat for a day in this new See You Next Tuesday video.

The Decibel Magazine Tour returns to the road in May! Tickets on sale Friday, February 3 at 10am local time.

This week’s roundup of new releases includes the latest from Conjureth, Ominous Scriptures, Ashen Horde and more!

Avoid crushing international shipping fees and get Cult Never Dies‘ incredible Dutch death metal history, black metal photo book, classic early ’90s zine anthologies and more exclusively via Decibel.

Mexican NWOTHM quartet Freeroad feel the noize on their old-school debut, ‘Do What You Feel!’

Take a beer run with black/death/thrashers Phantom Fire in their new video for “Mara.”

Check out the latest video from Chicago prog-doomsters Arriver!

Hear Irish sludge and doomsters Raum Kingdom return with their first new LP since the passing of bass player Ronan Connor in March of 2021.

Members of Revocation, Rosetta, Lotus Thrones, Publicist UK and more team up for something lighter on New Miserable Experience‘s first album, Philosophy on Pessimism.

The Deadbody bassist/Twitching Tongues vocalist/God’s Hate drummer appreciates gaming’s past but has his sights set on what the future may hold.

Before Mizmor and Hell, there was Sorceress. Stream “Nine Muses” and hear the record rescued from 14 years of obscurity by King Volume Records.

Feel Malleus’ heat, takin’ you higher on their thrashy black metal debut LP, ‘The Fires of Heaven.’

Decibel’s takes in the Calgary date of Anthrax‘s ongoing 40th anniversary tour.

San Antonio’s Noisy Neighbors are never more than a few seconds away from a blast beat.

Doom lords Seer of the Void have graced us with a sneak peek of their full album, Mantra Monolith, out January 27 via Venerate Industries.

Old-school death metal and horror are on Seven Doors‘ menu.

Take an exclusive sneak peek of Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band, now shipping via Decibel Books.

Dutch black metal duo Freja share a new music video of woodland witchcraft for their 2022 single, “Scattered Shields.”

After flying south for the holidays, our bird is back with new releases from slam newjacks and underground metal/hardocre vets.

This week’s new releases bring the darkness with the latest from Katatonia, Tribunal, Thaumaturgy and more!

Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band has been completely redesigned and edited for a North American release through Decibel Books and is finally in stock and shipping now.

Hear members of Seattle’s Drawn and Quartered reconvene their old black death outfit Plague Bearer and disgorge some fresh bile.

Melodic death metal powerhouse Asylence drop a new video for the track “Eternity, Please.” The song is from their new album Endanger Us All, out February 24.