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KILL SCREEN 066: Chris Ryan and Bailey Junior of PARTY CANNON Help Us Dumb It Down a Little

July 9, 2025

After the successful Mega Drive release of their single “High Tariff Behaviour,” the party slam players hope to raise bits while lowering IQs.

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EP Premiere: Opening the Curtains to Blood Brain Barrier’s Windows Drenched in Red

July 10, 2025

Take an advance listen to the debut EP from blackened death doom duo Blood Brain Barrier!

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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

Five For Friday: June 11, 2025

July 11, 2025

This week’s new releases bring the power of fire and ice with the latest from Hell, Angerot, Imperial Crystalline Entombment and more!

Video Premiere: Friendship Commanders – “Melt”

July 10, 2025

Check out the new track and video from Friendship Commanders, “Melt” ahead of their two-single July 15 release of this song alongside the track “Keeping Score,” out via Magnetic Eye Records.

Track Premiere: Black Magnet – “Night Tripping”

July 9, 2025

Oklahoma-based industrial metal outfit Black Magnet drop the latest single from forthcoming LP Megamantra out July 25 through Federal Prisoner.

Album Premiere: Glacier Expand Their Post-Metal Universe with More Distant/More Violent

July 9, 2025

Boston post-metal architects Glacier return with More Distant/More Violent—a blistering, industrial-tinged companion piece to last year’s A Distant, Violent Shudder.

Full Album Stream: Viogression – “Thaumaturgic Veil”

July 8, 2025

Midwest OSDM crew Viogression riff and think hard on their latest album.

Video Premiere: Azure Emote – “Bleed With the Moon”

July 8, 2025

Avant-garde death metal masters in Azure Emote return after a five-year absence to present us with a new world of towering drama and darkness. Get a taste.

Track Premiere: Whitehorse – “The Wait”

July 7, 2025

Aussie drone demons Whitehorse offer up a new track, “The Wait,” from their sludge match split, The Dissolution of Eternity, with UBOA.

You Should Listen to Blood Monolith

July 7, 2025

Revisit (or listen for the first time) Blood Monolith‘s debut album.

All Back Issues Just $4! THIS JULY 4th WEEKEND ONLY!

July 3, 2025

Nearly 150 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $4.00 each! Many of them containing flexis and down to the last copies. Hurry, sale ends Sunday at midnight EST.

Interview: In The Company of Serpents Talk Cord Cutting Catharsis

July 3, 2025

Grant Netzorg, the multifaceted vocalist and guitarist of the Denver-based In the Company of Serpents, gets personal detailing his inner turmoil on the band’s latest album, A Crack in Everything, set to release on July 11.