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This week’s round of new releases includes high-profile entries from Metallica, Andrew W.K, Mastiff and more!

The latest album from Boston’s own thrash metal masters shows the band’s ability to sound both focused and spontaneous.

The ultimate treat for your weekend: new releases and reissues from Iron Maiden, Internal Bleeding, Behemoth and more!

Germany’s Nocturnal returns with a album full of “Teutonic unholy thrash metal,” in all its raw, riff-powered glory.

You probably have opinions about the bands selected for this week, including Deafheaven, Between the Buried and Me, and more!

We get technical for this week’s roundup with new releases from Diskord, Fleshbore, Burial in the Sky and more!

This week’s deadly dose of Decibel-approved metal includes the latest from Ashen, Crypt Crawler, Perilaxe Occlusion and more!

For the tech-death maniacs in the crowd, the UK’s Cognizance has all the riffs, sweeps, grooves and growls you could ask for!

We’re keeping it raw and dirty this week with new releases from Tombstoner, Nuclear Revenge, Praise the Plague and more!

Bat Magic, the first entity from the Ordo Vampyr Orientis black metal circle has emerged with its debut release for all raw devotees.

The new song and video from Ovtlier is here for those of you who miss the vibe of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Germany’s Praise the Plague is here with a new song and video filled with doom metal power and black metal gloom.

We’ve got a loaded week for you as we catch up on the latest from Darkthrone, At the Gates, Mayhem and more!

The midwest monsters in Graveslave are here with their new video for “Spectral Procession,” off their upcoming new album.

Our full interview with the Seattle death metal veterans shows a band ready to confidently turn out classic death metal for years to come.

Check out the new video from Dutch death-dealers Bloodphemy: “Bloodborne,” from their new album, Blood Sacrifice.

According to Krigsgrav, “The Sun No Longer Reaches Here,” is “bleak, but that’s what this music is all about.”

This week’s slate of new releases includes bangers from Blazon Rite, The Day of the Beast, Eye of Purgatory and more!

In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.

According to Wormwitch: “this song is about creating as you speak; manifesting reality as you traverse the challenges of life.”

According to Orphan Donor, the new album “is an authentic expression and account of some of the hardest and scariest times in my life.”

We’re back with a roundup of new releases that includes the latest from Desaster, Perturbator, Ghastly and more!

The band’s new song, “Carnage Atrocity,” is a “a neck-snapping orgy of violence that will sear itself upon the mind.”

For fans of fiery, energetic black metal in the tradition of Naglfar, Dawn and Setherial, Stormruler has the ultimate debut ready to strike!

Miami’s Bleeth is here to take you on a ride across the lands of experimental, sludge, and post-metal on their latest record.

Hello, Decibel readers! Hope you have a relaxing weekend with lots of free time on your hands! Or at least one that allows for a soundtrack. We’ve got a roundup of great stuff below, from well-known legends to death-doom devastators to totally weird black metal. It’s a lot to take in, so enjoy! — Amorphis…

Morbid Breath seeks to “revive that malicious, heavy, and raw 80’s thrash-metal sound” on their new EP, In the Hand of the Reaper.”

“We play traditional black metal — full stop. We wrote 66 Black Wings under the shroud of the pandemic, fueled by blasphemy and booze.”

Watch the new video for “Emperor,” from Swedish prog-metal heroes Eastern High, off their upcoming new album, Halo.

Check out the new music video from LA-based melodeath warriors Through the Oculus, from their debut album out June 4.