Kevin Stewart-Panko
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
Video Premiere: Sinning Hard and Thrashing Harder with Israeli Thrashers Sinnery
July 14, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch Israeli thrashers Sinnery employ all the sinister-looking evil that comes with nefarious tropes like monk’s robes, cauldrons, excessive candle usage, religious symbology, ritual killings, cult activities and attempted bloody rebellion against such.
Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
July 1, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We welcome Cattle Decapitation to the Hall of Fame with their 2009 game-changer The Harvest Floor.
Album Stream: Get Weird, Wild and Wacky with Thirteen Goats’ Servants of the Outer Dark
June 30, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut long-player by Vancouver death/thrashers Thirteen Goats!
Video Premiere: Dumb Waiter’s “Climbing Up a Broken Ladder” is Like Screaming at a Wall
June 16, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch bodies take out slabs of drywall in Dumb Waiter‘s new video!
Video Premiere: Celestial Wizard Roll the Dice with “Ice Realm”
June 2, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch Celestial Wizard play the role of the melodic death metal force in video “Ice Realm”
Streaming: Getting Violent and Rotten with Rottenness’ Violentopia
May 19, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take the new album by Mexican-American death grinders Rottenness for a spin!
Streaming: Kissing the Sky with Gramma Vedetta’s The Hum of the Machine
May 19, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear London-based duo Gramma Vedetta offer their take on stoner rock/metal via third release and debut full-length, The Hum of the Machine.
Streaming: Deaf Club Keep the Hits Coming with Bad Songs Forever
May 5, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Stream Bad Songs Forever, the forthcoming EP by sonic agitators, Deaf Club!
Track Premiere: Aussie Ragers Battlegrave Grow from Humble Beginnings to Cavernous Depths
April 21, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a new track (and its “divebomb for the ages”) by Aussie rippers Battlegrave!
Video Premiere: Hyperia Showcase Beery Guitar Playthroughs and Wedded Bliss with “Experiment 77”
April 7, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
For Canadians Hyperia, beer and thrash metal are the ingredients to a successful playthrough video and marriage!
Power and Glory Ride to British Columbia: An Interview with Hyperspace Festival Organizer, Joey Hockin
March 24, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Joey Hockin talks about how the ingredients of planning, having faith and never stopping went into Hyperspace Metal Fest 2022.
Full Album Stream: Enter the Sullen Murk of Idol of Fear’s Trespasser
March 10, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Canadian miserablists Idol of Fear do Canadian metal!