Andrew Bonazelli

Third album, 30 musicians. That’s baller.

Hit the noise-rock trough for some delicious distorted groove.

Portu-goth institution Moonspell take the unpretentious approach to their video for “Domina.” 

Denver death metal newbies Bloodstrike are set to drop their debut full-length, In Death We Rot on Redefining Darkness on September 25, and they’re coming out of the gate hard with the “Abomination” video.

The Wisconsin death metallers make their Flexi Series debut with “Speed Freak,” a cover of the 1988 Hallows Eve classic. 

We still have eyes for German death metal mainstays Dew-Scented, and they have I’s for us. And new videos. And new split EPs.

Hard luck Bay Area tech-thrash veterans Insanity are finally back with their first full-length since 1994’s Death After Death. 

True Norwegian Black Metal. Nuff said.

Trafficking in crust-grind and hammering metallic hardcore, once Denver’s Of Feather and Bone are through with you, all that’s left is the carrion implied in their moniker.

Belgian death metal crew remain insane about crushing brains.

Symphonic metal veterans Stratovarius are celebrating their 30th anniversary by dropping new full-length Eternal on earMUSIC.

NWOBHM heroes Satan deliver you some evil.

A ripping new video from the Tampa death metal quintet.

Finnish funeral doom outfit Tyranny haven’t issued a full-length in a decade, but that’s going to change with Aeons in Tectonic Interment.

Up the irons! Heavy metal institution Iron Maiden are bestowing their 16th album, The Book of Souls, to the masses today, and Decibel is primed to celebrate with the legends’ fourth cover story in the November issue.

Longtime staffer Nick Green dubbed 8-Way Santa “the White Album of grunge … easily the most underrated record Sub Pop ever put out.” 

Black Yoga is “vinyasa-style yoga set to drone, noise, stoner metal, ambient, industrial, space doom, and other traditional meditation music.”  Here’s some news on the forthcoming CD/DVD.

Dallas-based seven-piece (!) Dead to a Dying World sure do put their money where their mouths are when it comes to their despondent moniker.

Ambassador Gun’s third full-length Tomb of Broken Sleep dropped earlier this summer, and here’s the video for “Once Upon the Sauce/Tomb of Broken Sleep.”

German funeral doom-bringers Ahab are releasing their much-anticipated fourth opus, The Boats of the Glen Carrig, today.

Okay guys, my new schedule doesn’t allow me to keep up with every release, but you already know that the new Ghost is like, well, the old records. And don’t forget the new Hate Eternal, which is actually really good. 

Anxiety isn’t cool, but appropriately named Oakland-based trio Nervous totally are.

We’re just glad they didn’t go with “A Skosh Morose.” 

The Bay Area is obviously a thrash mecca, but the nebulous art-metal influence of Neurosis looms just as large. It certainly hit poetically monikered Oakland duo Lament Cityscape.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Jeanne Fury’s chat with Michelle Innis, mother of Derek Boyer (Suffocation/Decrepit Birth).

The young death metal trio is well on their way to infiltrating this year’s Top 40 with third album Anareta.

Storm clouds are brewing in the evocative video for the title track on death/metalcore crew Fit for an Autopsy’s new album Absolute Hope Absolute Hell. 

It’s been an extremely extreme summer, and your friends at Decibel are rewarding you with a five-flexi discount! Subscribe now and, in addition to your 12 or 24 monthly flexi-containing issues of Decibel, we’ll send you the following standalone flexis FREE:

After two appetite-whetting EPS, Utah four-piece Cult Leader resurfaces with their first full-length, Lightless Walk, set to blow October 16 on Deathwish, Inc. It’s an excellent expansion of the palette displayed on June’s Useless Animal EP, in which two manic mathed-out nailbombs buffered against a forlorn, clean-vocal cover of Mark Kozelek and Desertshore’s “You Are Not My Blood.” 

Sabbath Assembly are prepared to administer more “sonic spells of misery and woe” via their self-titled fifth album, due out via Svart on September 11.