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Five For Friday: February 20, 2026

February 20, 2026

It’s a great day for musical discoveries with the latest releases from Exhumed, Nightshade, Rotten Blasphemy and more!

Five For Friday: February 13, 2026

February 13, 2026

It’s a very lucky day for metal listeners, with this week’s edition covering the latest from Mayhem, Converge, Worm and more!

Full Album Stream: Ashbringer – Subglacial

February 5, 2026

Atmospheric, introspective black metallers Ashbringer present Subglacial, their new album due out on February 13 via Bölverk Collective.

Video Premiere: Buñuel – “High. Speed. Chase.”

January 30, 2026

WATCH: Buñuel deliver unapologetic punk-rock energy delivered through a filter of noise-rock dissonance and the vibe of 1980s California.

Full EP Stream: Final Dose – Endless Woe

January 26, 2026

Final Dose‘s violent, confrontational and outright devastating new EP, Endless Woe, delivers all the black metal goods with punk rock abandon.

Five For Friday: January 23, 2026

January 23, 2026

Want to hear the latest in heavy? We’ve got you covered this weekend with the latest from Megadeth, Pelican, Karloff and more!

Five For Friday: January 16, 2026

January 16, 2026

This week features all things fast, heavy, and brutal with the latest from Kreator, Void Monuments, Viserion and more!

Five For Friday: January 9, 2026

January 9, 2026

Five for Friday opens the year with the latest heavy and harsh releases from Woe, Oraculum, Ectovoid and more!

Five For Friday: Black Metal 2025

December 19, 2025

As the curtain closes on 2025, join us in requiem as we celebrate some of the year’s finest black metal releases.

Five For Friday: Death Metal 2025

December 12, 2025

Check out some of the year’s best in death metal madness, including releases from Drawn and Quartered, Evoken, Ancient Death and more!

Five For Friday: December 5, 2025

December 5, 2025

Greetings Decibel readers! It’s the last standard Five For Friday roundup of the year. One last chance to revise your personal end-of-year lists before you get distracted by the holidays and resolutions you’ll maintain for about two weeks. But trust me, you’ll want to savor the last of 2025 with the albums below, especially the second…

Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”

November 28, 2025

Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums.

Five For Friday: November 14, 2025

November 14, 2025

This week, we bring you the latest in metal mastery, with new releases from VoidCeremony, Lamp of Murmuur, Strigiform and more!

Full Album Stream: Degraved – “Spectral Realm of Ruin”

November 11, 2025

The new album from Degraved pulls you into the crypts of death metal despair and only gets darker from there. Hear it now.

Five For Friday: November 7, 2025

November 7, 2025

Jump into the pit with us as we do the toxic waltz to the latest from Drain, Waldgeflüster, Uranium and more!

Five For Friday: October 31, 2025

October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween! We’re here to bring you the spookiest new horrors from Chained to the Dead, Despised Icon, Runemagick and more!

Video Premiere: Calcraft – “Perpetually Stabbed”

October 31, 2025

Texas-based death metal outfit Calcraft is here to help us celebrate the season of perpetual stabbing with new a, um, pointed new video “Perpetually Stabbed!”

Video Premiere: Dawn Fades – “Drugs”

October 24, 2025

It’s the spookiest time of year, and Dawn Fades has a new video that’s tailor-made for fans of all things horror!

Five For Friday: October 17, 2025

October 17, 2025

It’s a loaded week for new metal releases with the latest from Evoken, Coroner, Internal Bleeding and more!

Five For Friday: October 10, 2025

October 10, 2025

This week’s edition of the latest in heavy music includes new releases from Testament, Wode, Sanguisugabogg and more!

Track Premiere: Änterbila – “Årsgång”

October 3, 2025

Check out the new song from Sweden’s Änterbila, you won’t be able to get it out of your head, and that’s a good thing!

Video Premiere: IATT – “An Ode To Solace”

September 29, 2025

Sometimes art demands seclusion without distraction, and that’s what inspired IATT to bring us their new song and video.

Five For Friday: September 26, 2025

September 26, 2025

This week brings us the latest from some long-running legendary metal heroes like Amorphis, Revocation and more!

Full Album Stream: Mors Principium Est – “Darkness Invisible”

September 25, 2025

Stream the electrifying new album from Mors Principium Est, Finland’s long-running melodic death metal institution.

Album Premiere: Gates of Dawn – “III”

September 23, 2025

Hear III, what we assume is the third full-length LP from psychedelic post-black metal duo Gates of Dawn.

Five For Friday: September 19, 2025

September 19, 2025

When you have new albums from Paradise Lost, Castle Rat, and Igorr dropping on the same day, you know it’s a good day.

Five For Friday: September 12, 2025

September 12, 2025

Find new worlds to explore with this week’s new releases, including the latest from Between the Buried and Me, Infernal Thorns and more!

Video Premiere: Sacred Leather – “Spitfire at Night”

September 5, 2025

Classic heavy metal is alive! All doubters leave the hall or remain to be convinced by Sacred Leather‘s new video!

Full Album Stream: Faetooth – “Labyrinthine”

September 4, 2025

It’s only September, but the haunting of this year’s spooky season has already begun with Faetooth’s new doomy masterwork.

Five For Friday: August 29, 2025

August 29, 2025

As we bid farewell to a pair of legends, let’s also celebrate the latest from Desaster, Sadistic Force and more!