Kevin Stewart-Panko
More Friendly Rotten Fun From Our Rotten Friends in Rottenness
July 27, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Deathgrind crushers Rottenness always have a story to tell and will always share it with Decibel.
An Interview With Geoff Bourrie – Founder, Promoter and Curator of Loud as Hell Fest
June 29, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
An interview with Loud as Hell Fest mainman Geoff Bourrie!
Full EP Stream: Orchid’s Curse’s The Decay Waves a Flag For Eastern Canadian Metal
June 15, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Turn back the clock to the late ’90s/early ’00s with the metallic hardcore and epic bright-eyed sludge of eastern Canada’s Orchid’s Curse.
Video Premiere: Being Productive During Those Wasted Years with Cavern Deep’s “Skeletal Wastes”
June 1, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video by Swedish doom dwellers Cavern Deep!
EP Premiere: Experiencing Repulsion with Phantom Lung’s Abhorrent Entity
May 22, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take a deep breath and listen to the new EP by Toronto grinders Phantom Lung!
Video Premiere: Keeping it Wolf with Oak, Ash & Thorn’s “Unchain the Wolf”
May 18, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video by Denver Blackened Death D-beaters Oak, Ash & Thorn!
Video/Track Premiere: Invicta Battles into the Beyond with “Battle the Beyond”
May 4, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a new live track/video by Canadian melodic thrashers Invicta!
Full Album Stream: As Above, So Below with Atavistia’s Cosmic Warfare
April 20, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the orchestral density of Atavistia‘s new album, Cosmic Warfare!
Full EP Stream: Maudiir’s Musical Soliloque
April 6, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out Maudiir‘s musical soliloquy of prominent prog rock melodies, blackened NWOBHM chord voicings and mid-period Mustaine riffing …Soliloque
Full Album Stream: Forcefed Horsehead are Seeing Things with Monoceros
March 23, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Indulge in a stream of Forcefed Horsehead‘s animal mutant-friendly new album, Monoceros
Video Premiere: Exploring Misopedia via Tech-Death with Angelic Desolation’s “Shake the Baby”
March 9, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out “Shake the Baby,” Angelic Desolation‘s video response to the abortion controversy!
Full Album Stream: Getting Morose n’ Miserable with They Grieve’s To Which I Bore Witness
February 23, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to the debut full-length by Ottawa-based post-metal/drone doom duo, They Grieve!
Video Premiere: Unaligned Open Up About Their “Occhiolism”
February 9, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest single from Floridian tech-death whippersnappers Unaligned!
Video Premiere: Arriver Carry on with “Only On”
January 26, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video from Chicago prog-doomsters Arriver!
Live Review: Anthrax with Black Label Society and Exodus (Grey Eagle Events Centre, Calgary, AB: 1/22/23)
January 24, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Decibel’s takes in the Calgary date of Anthrax‘s ongoing 40th anniversary tour.
Video Premiere: Canada’s Alienatör are Rocking Out While Calling Out Cops on “The Less Dead”
January 12, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video offerings from Canadian noise rockers Alienatör!
Video Premieres: Asbestos Worker Bring the Noise… Rock. Two-Fold
December 29, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out two new videos from Minneapolis noise rockers Asbestos Worker!
Track Premiere: Pyramid Mass Drop a Big ‘Ol Monolith of Sound with “Offerings” from Monolith
December 15, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of Pyramid Mass‘ forthcoming debut full-length of spacey, blackened death!
Toronto’s Nihilist Death Cult Tackles Tyranny with Death to All Tyrants
December 1, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of the debut by Toronto’s Nihilist Death Cult!
Video Premiere: Sxokondo Ooze with Despair and Disgust on “Child of Rage”
November 17, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new video by Swiss slashers Sxokondo!
EP Stream: The Pandemic Couldn’t Kill Gorgatron’s Work Ethic (or Embryonic Cells)
November 3, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out Gorgatron‘s new EP, video and their Sepultura cover!
Video Premiere: Carrion Vael Kill it with “Kentucky Fried Strangulation”
October 20, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new serial killer themed video from tech-death up ‘n’ comers Carrion Vael!
Video Premiere: Psychonaut’s “All Your Gods Have Gone” Eats the Non-Rich
October 6, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
WATCH: Melodic post-metal noise rockers Psychonaut confirm that, all in all, we’re just another brick in the wall.
Cinemartyr Aren’t Afraid to Step on Hallowed Ground
September 23, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out chameleonic New York band Cinemartyr‘s cover of Swans’ “New Mind”!
Full Album Stream: Scare? No Scare? No Care with Greber and Fright Without
September 8, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to the new album by Canadian grind-sludge duo, Greber.
Apeiron Bound Get Multiplicitous with a Stream/Visualizer of Multiplicity
August 25, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Progressive metalheads can do the math’s on Multiplicity, the new album from Florida’s Apeiron Bound, out tomorrow but streaming in full today!
Video Premiere: At the Movies with Voraath’s “Amon the Judge”
August 11, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest mini-movie by futuristic death metallers, Voraath.
Full Album Stream: Splintered Throne does Good with The Greater Good of Man
August 11, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Fans of bands that bridge the worlds of thrash, prog and power metal and good ol’ fashioned headbanging with a beer in one hand and your equally shit-hammered buddy in your other, tune into Splintered Throne
Full Album Stream: BOX Opens Wide with Cherry Blossoms at Night
July 28, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
[Brad Pitt voice] What’s the BOX? Oh, just influences as varried as, Anaal Nathrakh, Devin Townsend, Judas Priest, Soft Cel and the Young Gods.
Sepultura – Schizophrenia
July 26, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Sepultura‘s sophomore slasher Schizophrenia enters the Decibel Hall of Fame, as the band’s unprecedented fourth HOF induction