Year: 2023

Revisiting Full of Hell‘s many collaborative releases in preparation for new Nothing collab When No Birds Sang.

Hear newcomers Aldrig bring the post-black metal pain with their debut LP Yağmur.

This week’s new releases breathe ice-cold brutality, with the latest from Ritual Clearing, Carcinoid, Ceremonial Bloodbath and more!

All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest at the Fillmore Philly on April 12-13, 2024 are officially on sale. Don’t wait!

Mexico’s stoner doom crew Weedsnake reign in bud on new album, Grimorium Cannabinaru.

Hear Norway’s The Last Eon mix of musical ambition and psychedelic inebriation by way of industrial black metal.

Check out a stream of the new album by Canucklehead thrashers, Hyperia!

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Horrenda deliver the follow-up to 2021’s Oíche Shamhna (Live at The Grand Social). Check out the video and revel in the band’s mix of black metal attack and hardcore atmosphere.

Hear live Mizmor and Hell musician Andrew Black emerge from the darkness via Litha‘s self-titled debut, streaming here ahead of its Friday release.

Biohazard performs songs from their landmark Urban Discipline album and Deicide deliver a special Deicide, Legion and Once Upon the Cross set and WAY more at Metal & Beer Fest Philly 2024!

Members of Megadeth, Obituary and Sepultura join forces on the new Savage Lands track, “The Last Howl,” in support of Costa Rica’s threatened howler monkey.

Hear Danish post-metal noise mongors Kollapse consider the benefits of a healthy diet in new track, “Autofagia.”

Featuring members of Brain Famine, Stagnater and Hallucivore, Boston blasters Zero Survive will scratch your Insect Warfare/early Napalm Death itch.

Hail (Florida-style) death with the new album from Alchemy of Flesh.

The spirit of NYHC is alive and well with Cash Bribe.

Members of Mother of Graves, Phobocosm, Krypts, Astral Tomb and The Munsens talk Metal & Beer Fest Denver as Dec 1-2 approaches.

Metal talkshow Two Minutes to Late Night is back with an all-new live show at the Gramercy Theater in New York City on December 14. Tickets are moving fast!

Pretty soon it’ll be time to pre-emptively reveal our Top 40 albums of the year. But before any of you finalize your own list, keep coming here every Friday to see who shuffles in at the last minute.

Hear grunge-positive Norwegian noise rock duo Barren Womb offer up a punchy new single, “Squat Walker.”

Hear ruthlessly chaotic, grindy mathcore beasts Fawn Limbs team with noisy experimental ambient duo Nadja to melt minds on “Cascading Entropy”

The latest Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2023 collaboration is so deliciously nerdy, you’ll be finishing them in no time.

Hear Hull, Krallice, Anicon, Woe member reconvene the USBM force Pyrolatrous. The first new LP in six years, Inveterate, is streaming now in full force.

The doom metal wizard may still be farming his gaming XP, but has already cast a spell on a popular horror franchise.

David Oburchowski (Goes Cube and Publicist UK) embarks on a new eclectic and emotional solo project, Bitter Cold, through his recently launched Moth Hospital Records.

Midwestern post-rockers Shipwreck Karpathos navigate stormy seas with their new single from Being Human. Out November 17th.

Boston hardcore legends SS Decontrol (SSD) reissue classic The Kids Will Have Their Say. Guitarist Al Barile talks past, present and future.

Massachusetts death dealers Fuming Mouth release their strongest work yet with new album Last Day of Sun.

Watch the new video from UK doom / sludge trio Acid Throne taken from their debut album, Kingdom’s Death, which is due out on November 8.

Halloween may be over, but the terrors of metal never rest with the latest from Suffocation, Mortuary Drape, Warcrab and more!