Kevin Stewart-Panko
F*ck You, COVID-19: Here Are Our Favorite Maryland Deathfest Memories
May 21, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Maryland Deathfest was supposed to start today. Join us as we reminisce about MDFs gone by.
Album Stream: Barren Womb’s ‘Lizard Lounge’ “Truly Has it All”
May 21, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Skronking Norwegians Barren Womb have a new album. Listen to it here!
Album Stream: [Evertrapped]’s ‘The Last Extinction’ Distracts from Pandemic Ennui
May 21, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Let loose and stream the new album from Montreal melodi-death commandos [Evertrapped]!
Album Stream: Killitorous Keep the Party Going with ‘The Afterparty’
May 7, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Party on with an advance stream of the new album from Ottawa-based death crew Killitorous!
An Interview with Voodoo Gods’ Alex von Poschinger: “People Think We Got Together Like the Spice Girls or Something”
May 7, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Say hello to international death/power metal super-group, Voodoo Gods.
Track Premiere: Retox Pay Tribute to the Cramps By Throwing “Garbageman” in the Meat Grinder
April 23, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Retox put a stitch in the Cramps!
Album Stream: Akurion Mines Heart and Heartache on Come Forth to Me
April 9, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to the debut from Montreal’s Akurion, featuring present and ex members of Cryptopsy, Neuraxis and Cattle Decapitation
Track Premiere: Black Pestilence Praises Darkness and Strength with “My Will to Power”
April 9, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hail the Flesh, Black Pestilence’s sixth full-length of blackened old-school thrash and punk, is set for release on May 1.
U.S. Visa Process Trendpiece: The Interviews We Didn’t Have Room For
April 8, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Interviews with grinders Wake and grind-pappy Kevin Sharp that didn’t fit in the new issue’s U.S. visa piece.
EP Stream: Pale Mare Sound Like Barn Burners. Thankfully, They Aren’t.
April 2, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Getting thick and groovy with the new EP by these Torontonians
Video Premiere: New Primals Flash and Bang with “Coma Fiend”
March 26, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Minneapolis noise rock weirdos, New Primals premiere their new video at Decibel!
EP Stream: ITUS Lifts Up Doom and Gloom with Primordial
March 12, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
ITUS’s new EP provides doom with a soaring, melodic edge.
Track Premiere: O Zorn! Explores Side Effect Darkness on “Your Killer”
February 27, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the title track from these non-John Zorn worshipping doomsters’ new album, “Your Killer.”
Shai Hulud – “Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion”
February 25, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Florida metalcore heroes Shai Hulud establish a profound hatred of convention on their landmark debut LP.
Track Premiere: The Order of Chaos’ “Believe in the Demon”
February 13, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
The Order of Chaos shines a light on Edmonton’s finer side
Hammer Fight Covers Joe Peschi = The Greatest Thing Ever
January 30, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
“Do I amuse you?” Well, yes, you do!
EP Stream: Putrascension’s “The Obsidian Fog”
January 16, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
New Jersey’s Putrascension continues the state’s contradictory nature with their new EP.
Video Premiere: Morgan Rider and the Deep Dark River’s “Ignite the Tempests”
January 2, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Morgan Rider and the Deep Dark River‘s new video ponders “What if Vintersorg gave the fused DNA of Peter Steele, Mina Caputo and ICS Vortex singing lessons?”
Hard Charger Premieres Their New Video. We Show Their Older Ones and Throw in a Contest.
December 19, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hard Charger has a new video, and old videos. And Decibel has a contest for you.
Video Premiere: The Flaying Loves Quebec and Quebec Loves The Flaying
December 5, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Quebec’s The Flaying visually chronicles their love for their hometown’s downtown core.
Full Album Stream: Post/Boredom’s Ritualistic Time Abuser
November 21, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Today we stream the new album by Seattle’s newest noise niks.
Video Premiere: Bather’s “Birds” Brings Blood, Boobs and Bondage
November 7, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
From Ohio’s Bather, a video “display of lecherously luscious violence and soul-stripping metal.”
EP Stream: Formless Master’s First Strike and Takafumi Matsubara Interview
October 24, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We’re showcasing the new EP by Formless Master, featuring Takafumi Matsubara, as well as an interview with the man himself.
What the Heck is an Unsplit? Total Fucking Destruction and Analkholic have Answers
October 10, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
The funny thing about this forthcoming release from Total Fucking Destruction and Analkholic courtesy the good folks at Give Praise Records is that what appears to have been the most difficult part was deciding on how to refer to it.
EP Stream: Getting Conspiratorial with Tales of the Tomb
September 26, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Three years ago they appeared in our Thrown Me a Frickin’ Bone column and tomorrow, Tales of the Tomb, will issue their new EP, Volume Two: Mendacium
Everybody Should Know: An Interview with The Young Gods
September 12, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
In which we conduct a length interview with Switzerland’s legendary avant-garde, industrial rock band The Young Gods
Track Premiere: Sinking the Yacht (Rock) with Seizures’ “Toxophola”
August 29, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Don’t ya just love it when a band appropriately names itself?
Video Premiere: Expain’s “They Live”
August 15, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Expain premieres video. Decibel offers second-by-second commentary.
THE NOISY FRENCH: Inside the French Noise Rock Scene
August 8, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We resurrect a previously unreleased Decibel trend piece from 2015 on the French Noise Rock scene.
Education Gets You Every/Nowhere: INUS Album Stream and Video Premiere.
August 1, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
INUS – “a pre-postapocalyptic, post-honky-tonk-prog-skronk, space Tropicalia, math-lounge powersilence trio”