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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.

Grande Prairie, Canada’s Devolver are sharing their new video for “Wraiths,” a standout track from their latest album Non Compos Mentis.

Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!

Hear Norwegian folk-inspired post-metal outfit Monograf dive deep into Occultation, their sprawling second full-length.

Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air

The longtime dungeon synth revivalist can’t deny gaming’s influence over the Land of Five Seasons.

Hear the power metal-informed doom of Connecticut’s Mourn the Light on their upcoming second full-length, Sorrow Feeds the Silence.

Legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan talks Wired for Chaos, the new documentary about his incomparable life and career, available November 11.

Czech metal band STELLVRIS drop their new EP, Shatter and Bloom, on Friday, November 7. Check out a video for the title track with us.

Canada’s thrash heroes Triskelyon return with their long-awaited fourth full-length, Maelstrom of Chaos. Check out the video for “Of Dust and Divination” here. 

Hear the experimental folk-inspired doom of Luxembourg’s Ptolemea, featuring current Sinistro vocalist Priscila de Costa.

San Diego D-beat crust duo COMA are a small taste of the incredible collection of bands and artists on the new Three One G/Smashed Plastic comp, Cult and Culture: A Planet B Podcast.

Knoxville’s Primal Scourge rise from the mire with ‘Necromantic Plague,’ the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length, End of Eden, out November 14 via Iron Fortress Records.

Get ready to experience Stillbirth‘s eclectic blend of death metal, grindcore, deathcore, and slamming death metal which they call “Brutal Surf Death Metal.”

A new EP! Worldwide touring! UGDM perpetual motion machine Rottenness (and friends) never stop!

Fuzz-drenched underground bands from around the world pay tribute to the mighty Kyuss on ‘Spaceship Landing – A Tribute to Kyuss’,coming soon on Witching Buzz Records.

The vocalist and drummer discuss Call of Duty’s most metal mode, the rise of simulation games and spending more time customizing cars than racing in racing games.

Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

Hear death dealers Selfgod return with the title track of their new album, Left Hand Pagan, out on Halloween via Veles Records.

UK post-metal doom crafters Vandampire don’t suck (blood or otherwise) on debut full-length, Hope Scars.

Takomaha are streaming their new EP, American Basements, with us before it drops October 29 via Loyal Blood Records. Check it out here.

Hear UK experimental post-metal project Dawnwalker’s new single-song full-length The Between.

Hear Beantown bashers Karate Steve lay down some black belt-quality hardcore sludge on third full-length Time Under Tension.

Norwegian band Uaar are back with a raw, angry atmospheric D-beat down, Galger og Brann, Norwegian for “Gallows and Fire,” out October 17 via Fysisk Format. You can hear it with us first.