Sean Frasier

British doom coven Witchsorrow foreshadow the world’s end on their riveting new LP Hexenhammer.

Reunited melodic death metal heroes At the Gates are the latest Best New Noise.

Austin rockers From Beyond blast synths and heavy space riffs on their otherwordly LP The Band From Beyond.

Dutch black metal philosophers Wesenwille match dystopian warnings with fiery discord on their I : Wesenwille debut.

Damian Herring of Horrendous reveals his approach to engineering killer death metal with Subterranean Watchtower Studios.

Ghastly‘s Death Velour is our Best New Noise.

Sentient Horror once again lead old-school Swedeath fans through a Lovecraftian pathway between New Jersey and Stockholm on their new EP, The Crypts Below.

Mysterious one-man punk/death rock project Bleach Birth have conceived another killer record with Hatching Inside the Womb.

Swedish melodic hardcore stargazers We Dream Alone examine the pursuit of “Happiness” in their newest single from ÆTHER.

Oakland rockers Blackwülf team up with doom royalty from Bedemon/Pentagram for their new track “Dead the World.”

Swedish doom coven Anguish return to their chaotic roots in “Blessed Be the Beast,” off their upcoming record Magna est vis Siugnah.

In under eight minutes, New Jersey sludge rockers Clamfight craft an epic tale of one location’s historical and supernatural transformation in “Echoes in Stone.”

Hooded Menace deliver our Best New Noise.

Virginian black/death malcontents Grethor seek to bury the oligarchy in “From This Rot So Shall We Be Remade.”

Midnight‘s Sweet Death and Ecstasy is our Best New Noise.

Ectoplasma conjure the spirit of old school death metal on “Primeval Haunting,” off their upcoming record Cavern of Foul Unbeings.

UK troublemakers BongCauldron bring the sludge and the fuzz in the skull-splitting premiere of “Bury Your Axe in the Crania of Lesser Men.”

Swedeath’s flame burns brighter than ever as Degial share their fiery anthem off Predator Reign, “Crown of Fire.”

Venture into a nightmarish chasm with Finnish death demons Desolate Shrine on Deliverance from the Godless Void.

Jersey grind hedonists Pink Mass stream their debut LP Necrosexual and share their vision of a world without sexual repression.

Spirit Adrift are our Best New Noise.

Horror Pain Gore Death strike again during Halloween season with a four-band split from Toxicology , Skuz , Triple Cripple , and Ground.

Southern Gothic post-punks Wailin Storms explore murder, mortality, and malice on sophomore record Sick City.

Harvey Milk are back with new uncompromising sludge/noise and a new outlook on fan interaction.

British extreme metal experimentalists Akercocke speak about comeback record Renaissance in Extremis and more in an extended interview.

German metal force Attic rock the convent with mystery and murder in their mercyful Sanctimonious concept record.

What happens when you ask extreme metal luminaries to crack open their dream journals and share their most memorable nightmares, dreams, hallucinations, and astral projections? Dream Bloody Gore. This month, Chuck Sherwood of death metal titans Incantation invites Decibel to crawl into his unconscious mind. In the immortal words of Chuck Schuldiner, “See past the…

Virginian pit-stirrers High Priest blast out hardcore/grind extinction sermons on their ferocious Grail Sludge EP.

Shattering Light’s Creation
When black metal ruled the earth
dB rating: 8/10

Immolation vocalist/bassist Ross Dolan discusses the past, present, and future of death metal in an extended interview from the August 2017 genre-exploring cover story.