J. Andrew

The first edition of our new release coverage for 2024 includes the latest from Threnomancy, Meridion, Fall of Gnosis and more!

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best black metal of 2023, including Immortal, Krieg, Calderum and more!

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best death metal of 2023, including Dying Fetus, Plague Bearer, Obituary and more!

For fans of NYC’s Riot, this new series will give the band the chance to get the recognition and credit they deserve.

And thus we come to the last standard edition of Five For Friday for 2023. The rest of the month will be dedicated to death metal and black metal retrospectives, so look out for that!

“I am always open and on the lookout for new bands who are hungry … I’ve got to believe they feel the fire.”

This week’s new releases include the latest dark serenades from Dusk, Dimmu Borgir, Fugitive Wizard and more!

Extreme noise rockers Unmothered weave through Corridors before its official release on December 8

Watch Germany’s Praise the Plague perform an entrancing blend of doom metal and black metal via their latest video for “Devourer,” from the band’s upcoming Suffocating In the Current of Time.

As part of our series on underground labels, read about how Ignacio Brown burns the midnight oil for metal at Caligari Records!

This week, Decibel is especially thankful for new releases from One Master, Midnight Odyssey, Cruciamentum and more!

Stream the Mexican melodic death metal band’s new album in full and revel in their dazzling manifestations of musical excellence.

This week’s new releases breathe ice-cold brutality, with the latest from Ritual Clearing, Carcinoid, Ceremonial Bloodbath and more!

Hear Norway’s The Last Eon mix of musical ambition and psychedelic inebriation by way of industrial black metal.

Horrenda deliver the follow-up to 2021’s Oíche Shamhna (Live at The Grand Social). Check out the video and revel in the band’s mix of black metal attack and hardcore atmosphere.

Pretty soon it’ll be time to pre-emptively reveal our Top 40 albums of the year. But before any of you finalize your own list, keep coming here every Friday to see who shuffles in at the last minute.

Halloween may be over, but the terrors of metal never rest with the latest from Suffocation, Mortuary Drape, Warcrab and more!

Hear Brazil’s Ophiolatry bring hypnotic riffs, brutal vocals and crushing rhythms reminiscent of Hate Eternal, Nile and Steve Tucker-era Morbid Angel.

The new Icarus Witch track is a “pure riff-driven melodic rocker in the vein of Dio-era Rainbow, Deep Purple, or vintage Whitesnake.”

It’s Halloween, so we’re going extra brutal this week with new gruesome releases from Gravesend, Autopsy, Mouth for War and more!

This week’s new releases include the latest from big names like Myrkur and Cirith Ungol along with a crop of heavy newcomers!

Author Dayal Patterson discusses the massive 800-page reworking of his black metal history reimagined as Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult — Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition.

Check out Volume‘s re-issued EP and see if you can last without playing excited air guitar. You’ll fail, of course.

This week’s new releases include the latest in cold, merciless brutality, including Krieg, Overthrow, Seraphic Entombment and more!

Autumn has arrived, and the title track and video for Vermilia‘s 2022 album serves as the ideal sonic backdrop.

It’s a good week for darkness with the latest from Woe, Disguised Malignance, Wolves in the Throne Room and more!

Underground and overground legends Profanatica and Cannibal Corpse return with new albums today!

This week’s new releases include the latest meteor-sized riffs from Baroness, Gridlink, Blood Oath and more!

This week’s new releases include the latest deadly installments from Uada, Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus and more!

“I think Leprous Daylight is Fossilization‘s most violent effort so far but still full of the melancholy and sadness you have been used to.”