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ONLY 100 AVAILABLE! Pre-Order HULDER’s New Album ‘Verbolgen’ on Decibel-Exclusive Hardwood Color Vinyl!

June 12, 2026

There are a mere 100 copies of Hulder‘s new full-length LP, Verbolgen, on Decibel-exclusive Hardwood colored vinyl. Answer the call of the ancestral fires and forest spirits and pre-order now!

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Track Premiere: Agonanist – ‘Effacement’

June 18, 2026

Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.

Editorial

An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground

December 26, 2025

Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.

Latest Issue

Hulder

July 2026 [#261]

Includes exclusive limited edition Venom flexi disc

The Acclamation of Bonds! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Acheron’s Rites of the Black Mass, an exclusive Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography excerpt, Neurosis, Panopticon and more

Track-by-Track: Fleshcrawl – Epitome of Carnage

June 18, 2026

We catch up with Fleshcrawl for a track-by track breakdown of their new album in the old-school death metal crew’s own words.

Full Album Stream: Gold Spire –Steps Into Shadow

June 17, 2026

Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

Blast Worship: MERC

June 17, 2026

Tune into MERC‘s all-caps, no-guitars grindcore attack.

Track Premiere: Cold Blue Mountain – “The Storm”

June 17, 2026

Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record

Album Premiere: HISS – A Cheapened Crown

June 17, 2026

Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.

Video Premiere: Moon Destroys – ‘Flowers’

June 17, 2026

Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”

Video Premiere: Body Stuff – “Sacrifice”

June 16, 2026

Watch the new video from Body Stuff, a project from the mind of Curran Reynolds that gives a fresh take on hard rock.

Track-by-Track: Bloodhunter –Sons of the Abandoned

June 15, 2026

We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.