Year: 2023

That’s a paddlin’! Wisconsin doomgaze outfit Vanishing Kids take a candle-lit canoe ride into misery town in their new video.

Hear Blut Aus Nord mastermind Vindsval team with Borknagar/Solefald vocalist Lars “Lazare” Nedland in Ershetu, creating a uniquely whimsical take on black metal.

Check out the downcast calamity of post-sludge doom crushers Spook the Beast‘s latest EP!

Watch post-punk duo Dreamwheel, featuring Evan Linger (Skeletonwitch, Cultist) and Julia Gaeta (Madrigal, ex-Albez Duz, ex-Restless Ghosts) find redemption.

Post-metal guitar virtuoso Mike Gallagher (Isis, Cast Iron Hike), has unearthed long-buried sessions for his emotive project Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR). Hear them now!

Get ready to feel bad about the world with a new Axioma video.

Jump in a repossessed war machine and steamroll the day with Midwestern thrash ‘n’ roll solo project Acid Mass.

After 10 years between albums, Brazilian ragers Farscape are back and bashing out Teutonic thrash like it’s 1984.

In which Gene, with all the stability of Aaron Rodgers’ Achilles tendon, gushes over the stunning new Gridlink LP.

In which Neill Jameson stumps hard for Gorgoroth‘s re-recording of their mid-’90s black metal classic in the guise of Under the Sign of Hell 2011.

Destablizer are back with a new record, Violence Is the Answer, out September 22 via Horror, Pain, Gore, Death. You can lose it to the album now!

Get Well‘s Burning the Village to Feel its Warmth lurches menacingly through three new songs, channeling equal parts Botch on an ether binge and Unsane at their most esoteric. Weird music for weird people.

This week’s new releases include the latest meteor-sized riffs from Baroness, Gridlink, Blood Oath and more!

We have only 200 copies available of Tomb Mold‘s new LP, The Enduring Spirit, on exclusive Phantasmic Easter Yellow & Aqua Blue Merge vinyl. Don’t blow it.

Check out the ponderous, chain-lugging atmospheric doom of the new The Answer Lies in the Black Void track, “Ataraxia.”

Watch powerhouse South African thrashers Truth Decayed spin some “Vicious Circles” off their new EP Faded Visions II.

Michael Freiburger, pillar of the Seattle metal community and leader of Satanik Royalty Records, talks to Decibel about his story and what’s next for the family business.

The guitarist and vocalist is happily (and furiously) exploring a world of her own.

Japanese death metal pioneers Transgressor share thoughts and tragic news regarding their first new album in 30 years.

Watch Norwegian proggy post-hardcore quartet Kambodsja give the one-fingered salute to keyboard warriors worldwide.

Sacrifice a few minutes of your time for the stunning new video from Texas black metallers Necrofier.

Seattle noise rock/post-hardcore trio Great Falls stream new album Objects Without Pain.

In which we celebrate the strangest album in Black Sabbath’s career and the product of their strangest era. Happy 40th birthday, Born Again!

Hear death hoosiers Flesher, featuring Paul Breece, Gus Matracia, and Dustin Boltjes, serve up hearty helpings of gore-drenched brutality on their latest sinister offering Tales of Grotesque Demise. 

It’s Monday and you hate everything, right? Match the music to your mood with Break.Burn.End., the new album from Charlotte-based metallic hardcore bruisers Violent Life Violent Death.

Pre-order the massive 480-page oral history of the celebrated Morrisound recording career of iconic extreme metal producer/engineer Scott Burns, and read an excerpt now!

This week’s new releases include the latest deadly installments from Uada, Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus and more!

Watch UK’s hardcore tech death crushers Burner get elbows swinging in their new performance video for “Hurt Locker.”

Get devoured by “Vermin” as deathgrind maniacs Rat King drop a new track ahead of their full-length, Psychotic Reality, out September 29 via Satanik Royalty.

“I think Leprous Daylight is Fossilization‘s most violent effort so far but still full of the melancholy and sadness you have been used to.”