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Pre-Order ‘Born Human: The Life and Music of DEATH’s CHUCK SCHULDINER’ from Decibel Books! Read an Exclusive Excerpt Now!
August 8, 2025
Pre-order the massive, nearly 500-page official biography of death metal pioneer Chuck Schuldiner from Decibel Books and read an excerpt now!
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Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”
August 13, 2025
From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.
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Gus Rios (Cold Slither): The Toys That Saved Me
May 30, 2025
Fresh from his reveal as Cold Slither frontman Zartan, drummer/guitarist/vocalist Gus Rios provides the following homage to the impact of the toys that defined his childhood and shaped his adulthood.
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Blackbraid
September 2025 [#251]
Includes exclusive limited edition Kontusion flexi disc
The Warrior’s Trail! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Witchcraft’s Witchcraft, Maryland Deathfest XX & Northwest Terror Fest reviewed, Carla Harvey, Cold Slither, Katatonia and more
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Truth Paste”
August 13, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Sandrider’s Jon Weisnewski delivers some grindcore insanity via his latest Nuclear Dudes track, “Truth Paste,” featuring vocalist Brandon Nakamura (ex-Teen Chtulu).
Track Premiere: Achathras – ‘The Despiser Triumphant’
August 12, 2025 Emily Bellino
Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.
Blast Worship: Sick Destroyer
August 12, 2025 Gene Meyer
Hear Needful Things members return with more Czech grind badassery with Sick Destroyer.
Track by Track: Incite –Savage New Times
August 11, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Phoenix groovecore brutalizers Incite take us track-by-track through their thrashtastic seventh full-length, Savage New Times.
Track Premiere: Death Meta – ‘Desecrated’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Death Meta take a Myspace approach to heavy music.
Track Premiere: NecroticGoreBeast – ‘Knuckle Deep Convulsions’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Slam crushers NecroticGoreBeast release the latest from their new EP, Brute.
Human Bulldozer: A Conversation with Kommodus’ Lepidus Plague
August 11, 2025 Dutch Pearce
A conversation with Lepidus Plague, the unstoppable force behind the Australian one-man black metal campaign, Kommodus.
Five For Friday: August 8, 2025
August 8, 2025 J. Andrew
This week brings a special kind of darkness with the latest from Crypt Sermon, Blackbraid, Malthusian and more!
Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”
August 8, 2025 Tim Mudd
Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”
Guitar Playthrough: Last Retch – “In the Polder They Reek”
August 7, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Canadian death dealers Last Retch have blessed us with a playthrough video of “In the Polder They Reek” from their forthcoming record, Abject Cruelty, due out September 26 via Time to Kill Records.
