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Kontusion to Release New Song, “Insatiable Lust for Death,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
June 27, 2025
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, June 30 to secure a copy of this extremely extreme and extremely exclusive flexi disc single from Northeastern death merchants Kontusion!
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Track Premiere: Anchorite – “Devil on the Throne”
June 30, 2025
Hear Euro doom crushers Anchorite lay the lumber on new single, “Devil on the Throne,” featuring a guest solo from Michael Denner (ex-Mercyful Fate).
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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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Cryptopsy
August 2025 [#250]
Includes exclusive limited edition Motörhead flexi disc
As the Worm Turns! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Carcass’s Surgical Steel, Hell’s Heroes VII reviewed, Botch, Gruesome, Planning For Burial and more
Carcass – Surgical Steel
June 30, 2025 Justin Norton
Carcass make the ultimate comeback with Surgical Steel.
Interview: Kaonashi Talk Touring, Songwriting and New Album, I Want to Go Home
June 30, 2025 Emily Bellino
“Before, it was me just trying to beg the world: ‘Please listen to me. Please look in my direction, I make music and I promise it’s good enough for you listen to,’ and now we truly have an audience.”
Five For Friday: June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s a week of towering legends with the latest in metal releases from Sodom, Lord Belial, Deadguy and more!
Track Premiere: Recurrence – “Remember Who the Enemy Is”
June 27, 2025 Tim Mudd
When melodic death metal, metalcore, and groove collide, you get the sharpened steel of Recurrence—and their new single, “Remember Who The Enemy Is,” drives that point straight into your chest.
Video Premiere: Famous Strangers – “l.S.C.”
June 26, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Get to know melodic, classic Canadian metallers Famous Strangers through their new song/video “L.S.C.”
PRE-ORDER NOW: CRYPT SERMON’s ‘Saturnian Appendices’ on Decibel-Exclusive Rose Red with Black Smoke Vinyl!
June 26, 2025 Decibel Magazine
There are only 100 copies of Crypt Sermon‘s new EP, Saturnian Appendices, on exclusive Rose Red with Black Smoke vinyl. Get one EXCLUSIVELY via Decibel!
Track Premiere: Picking Up Change with Fuck Money’s “Belts”
June 26, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Austin noiseniks Fuck Money tighten their “Belts” (around your necks)!
Exclusive Clip Premiere: Wired for Chaos – The Untamed Life of Harley Flanagan
June 26, 2025 Tim Mudd
Check out a new clip from Wired for Chaos, the new feature-length documentary on legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan from Emmy- and Peabody Award-winner Rex Miller.
Track Premiere: Clairvoyance – “Blood Divine”
June 25, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Polish death metal wreckers Clairvoyance foretell your destruction on new single, “Blood Divine.”
KILL SCREEN 065: For Adam Biggs of RIVERS OF NIHIL, the Fantasy is Anything But Final
June 25, 2025 Michael Wohlberg and James Lewis
The frontman for the progressive metal practitioners explores worlds while out on the road.
