Kevin Stewart-Panko
An Interview with ‘Takeshi Sweden’ of Japanese Weed-Lovin’ Punks Rocky & the Sweden
February 5, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Say hello to Japanese weed-obsessed punks Rocky & the Sweden!
Lethargy – It’s Hard to Write With a Little Hand
January 26, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Lethargy‘s cult math metal classic, featuring members of Mastodon and Nuclear Assault enters or hallowed Hall on its 30th anniversary.
Album Stream: Thrashing it Up with Hellmaze’s Dead Flesh Rising
January 22, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of the debut full-length album by Danish thrashers, Hellmaze!
Film Review: Death Reigns Shows That You Can’t Stop Rock and Roll, Even in the Bible Belt
January 8, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out this doc and learn what happens when you put on a metal fest in the heart of the Bible Belt.
Full Album Stream: Noise Rockers Feel Worse Get Brusque and Bitter With This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal
December 25, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut album from Feel Worse (ft. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything)!
Biohazard – Urban Discipline
December 22, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Biohazard‘s classic sophomore slugger, Urban Discipline, earns a Hall of Fame induction.
Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
December 11, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.
Video Premiere: Getting Tech-y With Phaeton’s “Augmented”
November 27, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.
Full Album Stream: Destroy, Erase, Improve? With Negative Blast’s Destroy Myself For Fun
November 13, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!
EP Stream and Tour News: Rottenness and Saintbreaker Team Up To Conquer (Part of) the World
October 30, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
A new EP! Worldwide touring! UGDM perpetual motion machine Rottenness (and friends) never stop!
Full Album Stream: The Munsens Return with Degradation in the Hyperreal
October 16, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a massively in-depth preview of the new LP from Denver-come-Asbury Park death ‘n’ doom maulers The Munsens.
Excel – Split Image
October 7, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Excel enters the Decibel Hall of Fame via crossover game-changer Split Image.
Show Announcement/Preview: Martin Atkins Presents: Killing Joke’s Extremities
October 2, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read all about it! Martin Atkins Presents: Killing Joke’s Extremities to be performed in its entirety for the first time in 33 years at Reggie’s in Chicago on November 28th.
Full Album Stream: Telling Colourful Tales with Ancient Thrones’ Melancholia
September 18, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest colourful concept album from Canada’s Ancient Thrones!
Album Premiere: Duo-Lingual Epic Storytelling with Shardana’s The Monarch
September 4, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new album by Sardinian storytellers, Shardana!
Album Premiere: Visitant’s Rubidium is Very Much an Active Metallic Element
August 21, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Give the debut album from Floridian alchemists Visitant an advance listen!
A Brief Reading Round-Up from the Heavy Metal Book Club
August 7, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
On the eve of a massive Decibel Books announcement, Kevin Stewart-Panko wants you to know what’s on his summer reading list.
Track Premiere: Wading Through the Shit With Deaf Club’s “Crap Circles”
July 24, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Wrap your ears around an advance listen of new material from Deaf Club!
EP Premiere: Opening the Curtains to Blood Brain Barrier’s Windows Drenched in Red
July 10, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take an advance listen to the debut EP from blackened death doom duo Blood Brain Barrier!
Track Premiere: Picking Up Change with Fuck Money’s “Belts”
June 26, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Austin noiseniks Fuck Money tighten their “Belts” (around your necks)!
Look Out Northeners, Gorgatron and the Northern Destruction Tour Are Coming to Get Ya!
June 12, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Midwest metallers Gorgatron, Casket Robbery and Frontal Assault coming to the Midwest!
Video Premiere: Nottingham Cave Dwellers Tigguo Cobauc Unearth “Ascended Deliverance”
May 29, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video from Nottingham-based cave dwellers Tigguo Cobauc!
Full EP Stream: Hellgrammites’ Ethos
May 15, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Do you like metal as much as you like punk? Hardcore as much as crossover? Enjoy rocking rock? Then, check out a stream of the new EP from Hellgrammites!
Track Premiere: Stress Positions Put the Savage into Savagery with “Salbahe Ako”
May 1, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out some hard-hitting hardcore from Chicago’s Stress Positions
Video Premiere: Grind Supergroup Defigurement Reads Rites With “Godtopsy”
April 17, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest single and first video from new grinders Defigurement!
Live Review: Meshuggah/Cannibal Corpse/Carcass – Theatre at Great Canadian Resort, Toronto 3/29/25
April 7, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We don’t know how well you know our Kevin Stewart-Panko, but his review of the Toronto stop of the Meshuggah, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass tour might help…
Lucha Libre Masks, Bong Hits, Solitary Headbanging, Some Weird B-Movie…It’s a Rottenness Video Demo!
April 3, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the wild, wacky world of Mexican-American death metal veterans, Rottenness!
Video Premiere: Bugging Out on Barren Womb’s “Bug Out Bag”
March 20, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Experience the cinematic strangeness and lack of disgustingness of Barren Womb‘s new video!
Track Premiere: Mercy Ties are Bringing “A New Hell Every Day”
March 6, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Seattle noiemakers Mercy Ties offer a hellish new day of mathy noise rocking via their new single!
Track Premiere: Stress Test’s “Something Rather Than Nothing”
February 20, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Featuring members of Unto Others, Portland’s Stress Test make noisy, thrash that glam rockers love and you ought to check out!
