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St. Louis-based genre-benders The Lion’s Daughter scream through ’80s horror filters on new song “Die Into Us.”

Finnish depressive black metallers Totalselfhatred slit wrists on new track “Solitude MMXIII.”

British avant-garde black metallers Lychgate unlock new album, The Contagion in Nine Steps. A new Q&A with Vortigern.

Australia death-thrash rippers Vomitor upchuck new album, Pestilent Death. Play it now! Or die!

Swedish cultists Craft redefine black metal on new track, “The Cosmic Sphere Falls.”

Chicago death purveyors Cardiac Arrest drop new track ‘Professional Victim.’

Soft Kill premiere new track “Missing” off new album Savior.

Long-standing Swedish blackened death metallers Necrophobic mark their return on “Mark of the Necrogram.”

Portuguese blackened death metallers Scarificare scare with new track “Occult Radiance.”

Germany-based psych-doom purveyors Black Salvation blow minds on new album, Uncertainty is Bliss.

Portugal-based doom metallers Sinistro take on the avant-garde with their filmic new LP, Sangue Cassia.

While the trio of albums Blodhemn, Mardraum: Beyond the Within and Monumension afforded Enslaved a very wide and superbly deep palette from which to draw, sculpt and splatter their blend of black, Viking and progressive metal, something wasn’t quite right. The feelings and intentions of the aforementioned albums were pure, but the Norwegians had corrupted…

Pittsburgh-based dark metallers Deathwhite talk new album, “For a Black Tomorrow.”

Swedish death metal kings Usurpress bestow the strange and the heavy on new album, Interregnum.

Swedish black metal upstarts Avslut issue dire warning on new album, “Deceptis.”

Australian blackened war machine Nocturnal Graves fires off an unholy bullet with new song “Ecdysis, Shedding Weak Flesh.”

Lithuanian post-metallers Erdve are heavy on introspection (and riff) on new album, Vaitojimas.

Icon is inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Spain’s Totengott invoke Celtic Frost on new song “Satan Beside You.”

Swedish progressive rock upstarts Hällas tell tall tales of high adventure.

Avant-garde black metallers Lychgate destroy boundaries on new song, “Remembrance.”

German black metallers Chaos Invocation put the fear of death in you with new track “Calling From Dudail.”

Tribulation are our Best New Noise.

American black metal sensation Chaos Moon talk the realities of Eschaton Mémoire.

Iniquity’s Martin Rosendahl Revisits Serenadium and confirms reunions are dead.

Mysterious U.S.-based dark metal outfit Deathwhite premiere new track “The Grace of the Dark.”

French synthwave specialist Dan Terminus talks gear, popularity, and new album Automated Refrains.

British doom/death metallers raise the dead on new track, ‘Killing Flaw.’

Swedish thrashers Dreadful Fate stream new album, The Sin of Sodom, in full. Total death!

Decibel would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and acquaintances of Sanctuary and Nevermore vocalist Warrel Dane, who passed away today, December 13, in São Paulo, Brazil after suffering from a heart attack.