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Check out Festering Hag‘s debut album, The Hag, the Mother, and the Wolf. The record is out this Friday via Bog Infinity, a label established last year.

Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from Scottish black metal speed demon Hellripper before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

Fimbul Winter (featuring ex-Amon Amarth members) present “Crowned In Ash,” their latest release following the 2025 debut EP What Once Was.

Hear former and current members of Decrepit Birth, Animosity, Akurion, Neuraxis, Augury, Emasculator and more gather as The Conflux Collective.

Resurrected Seattle splattercore legends, The Accüsed, are slicing and dicing on violent new single, “Interfectrix.”

Hear Arkansas deathcore deviants Gorepig bring all the squeals.

New Belgian blackgaze outfit, Achryma, take us in the studio for the morose title track to their new Hollowlight EP.

Meet Denver’s only melodic/progressive busking death metal band, Insipidus.

Where there’s smoke, there’s black metal, and Italian ragers laCasta are engulfed in the acrid fumes of their new full length Olibanvm.

The Phoenix, Arizona death metal outfit Lago returns with Vigil, a dense, suffocating, and surgically cold new full-length that pushes their bleak atmosphere into sharper, more punishing territory.

Tucson crushers Wyrmhaven whip up a melodic death metal monsoon on new track “Unrelenting Storms.”

Denver low-end duo Burning Sister present their latest single, “Sunspots,” their first new track following their 2025 album Ghosts.

Check out the new single by Indian crazies Maneating Orchid!

Virginia stoner rock trio Üga Büga fire up the grill on new single, “Divine Slaughter (Backyard Barbecue Bonanza).”

Hear New Jersey deathcore unit 9 Dead let it rip on their latest single, “Parasite.”

Scottish trio Tyrannus ride post-punk angst to a fiery black metal explosion on new track, “Flesh Eternal.”

You’ve got until Thursday, April 30 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of the first-ever official flexi disc from black metal progenitors Venom is yours.

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Vancouver, BC symphonic DM stalwarts Atavistia inject a folk metal forest vibe into new single “I Skogens Djup.”

The fantasy synthesizer mastermind discusses the games and soundtracks that helped put him on his current path to glory.

Hear Toward Dead Temples, the forthcoming split release from Baltimore black metallers Nixil, and Portland black/death metal quartet Drouth

Swedish extreme metal multi-instrumentalist Oscar Rask returns with his death thrash project Since the Death and new album, Entangled.

Michigan heavies Killcrown drop the official music video for their debut single “DEATH,” from their upcoming, yet‑to‑be‑titled, full‑length album due later this year on Exitus Stratagem Records.

State of Illusion share their new video for “Death Is Not The End” ahead of their forthcoming album Pluto’s Ghost, out independently tomorrow. Check it out now.

The folks who bring you the Fire in the Mountains Festival discuss the power of music and community.

Philly’s proggy black metallers Iatt check in with the penultimate chapter in their upcoming Etheric Realms of the Night album and film.

Progressive death metal still carries a certain baggage—either a promise of something transcendent or an excuse to disappear into excess. On Blind In Abyssal Realms, Ordh don’t bother arguing with either side.

Seattle author Jonathan Evison discusses the in-progress documentary on the short-lived ’80s venue, the Metropolis, and the role it played in the rise of grunge.

Progressive black metallers Ashen Horde share a video for “Void in the Ash” from their forthcoming album The Harvest, out May 1.

Hear the melodic, folk-inspired black metal rage of Eveale on the title track, “Enter the Woodland Realm,” from their upcoming debut full-length.