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After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.

Denver’s NightWraith are back with a new single, “The Candlelight,” a slice of black ‘n’ roll goodness just in time for the holidays. Hear it here.

No Kenny G for extreme metal weirdos Nuclear Dudes, as they are strictly “Antisax” in their latest video.

The guitarist shares how gaming and music are deeply intertwined throughout his journey to the Cradle.

Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.

Bay Area old school thrash supergroup Nefarious introduce vocalist, Sean Rivera, with a new video for “Day After.”

Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.

Now is your chance to win this one-of-a-kind relic along with two LPs from the Oklahoma cinephiles!

Progressive metal duo Humanness Test unveil their latest single, “Prima Facie,” along with new video. You can hear it with us first.

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada-based band Discovery Through Torment are dropping their new EP, Telesynthetic Rebirth. Check it out now ahead of its official December 5 release date.

UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.

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Canadian hard rockers Danko Jones walk us through their new LP Leo Rising.

Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.

Hear Swedish trio Hexjakt rumble through a dank, depressive doomscape on their new full-length, Blessing of the Damned.

Decibel’s co-nerds do their homework to discuss the bassist’s love of Grand Theft Auto, why there’s nothing wrong with playing Fortnite and the underground connection of video games and extreme music.

Hear Swedish DM duo Carnal Savagery go deep into the Crypt of Decay on their gnashing seventh full-length.

Check out the new lyric video from Aittala, “Ill-Gotten Gains,” from their latest album Machines, released via Exitus Stratagem Records. 

Decibel’s intrepid journalist Justin M. Norton went behind the scenes at a GWAR show in San Francisco for the new documentary GWAR: Behind the Gore.

Hear the Detroit thunder of these Motown heavy rock vets’ Covid-era-formed outfit, Winds of Neptune on their self-titled debut.

Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those cases.

Formed out of iconic Philly hardcore band Blacklisted, the much doomier Colossal Rains — we like Paradise Lost, too! — drops their new video, “Deadlights.” Check it out with us first.

Cold, grim and shot in Finland? Must be black metal. Nope, it’s the latest video, “Nothing,” from atmospheric, ambient artist Kariti.