Year: 2023

Philly noise punk crew Rid of Me regale you with a breakup song.

Hear French blasters Chiens deliver a bit of the ol’ grindviolence.

“The Messiah Draws Near,” as does a new album from Philadelphia sludge purveyors Caged.

Xasthur mastermind Scott Conner talks about the heavier sounds of his latest album and why he’s already moving away from them again.

The sun sets on this week as it rises to shine on the latest from Horrendous, Ringworm, Spirit Adrift and more!

On the eve of its L.A. screening, legendary music documentarian Penelope Spheeris discusses her “lost” Ozzfest ’99 documentary, We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll.

Listen to a new song from Chicago-based post-hardcore/noise rock crew death pose.

Hear Greek grinders Head Cleaner clear the gunk off your frontal lobe with their new single, “Not Like All of You.”

Watch the Keening‘s arresting video, “Little Bird,” and pre-order their debut LP, out October 6 via Relapse.

Spend two minutes with Bay Area quartet Strangelight, featuring members of Kowloon Walled City and Transistor Transistor, and then spend way more recovering from the aural beating.

The drummer and metal publicist is ready to squad up when you are.

UK deathbringers Celestial Sanctuary dig into the viscera of Insatiable Thirst For Torment in this track by track dissection.

Check out the melodic retro doom of Italian trio Bottomless on their debut full-length, The Banishing.

Hear Spectral Lore mastermind Ayloss indulge his black/thrash metal impulse via Auriferous Flame‘s new bludgeoning riff-fest.

Black Radical Love is out now on Triple B Records.

Hear former Death and Massacre guitarist Rick Rozz throw back to the early 90s sound of… grunge with FLO.

If peanut butter-flavored beers are your jam, Abita Brewing Company’s PB & Jams lager will hit your sweet spot.

Check out the sword-waving new video for “Arminius” from New Zealand death thrash quartet Bulletbelt

Hear Oakland post-hardcore noise rock trio Facet harness feedback for the force of good on their debut full-length.

Take a listen to the new EP by Chicago horror shredders, Necronomicon Ex Mortis!

Rising Philly-based extreme metal act Witching unveil the title track from new album, Incendium.

Indonesian moshers Celestial emerge from the night sky with their debut album of emotive and progressive death metal.

You’re not seeing things. Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick has hooked up with Dutch noise fiends Dead Neanderthals again on their new LP, Specters.

Listen to Nothing Comes from Death, the debut album from Pennsylvania tech-death band Distention.

Xorsist‘s new track is kind of like steak ordered extra rare. But in this case it’s HM2-style Swedish death metal ordered with extra blood! Hear “Coterie of the Depraved” now!

We have only 90 copies available of Krieg‘s new LP, Ruiner, on exclusive Red with Black Marble Smoke vinyl.

Canadian black metal trio Dismal Aura return with the first notes of new music form their forthcoming LP, Imperium Mortalia, due out September 29.

Here’s this week’s blast of five heavy new releases, included the latest from Crypta, Humanity’s Last Breath, Hallucinate and more!

Legendary Virginia hardcore punk outfit Pg. 99 (or Pageninetynine) return with a pair of reissues and their first post-pandemic live appearances.

Decibel is proud to present Nott‘s new video for the title track of their new death-doom masterpiece, due out on August 18.