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Track Premiere: Bovice — “Sluggo Season”
July 27, 2022 Shawn Macomber
Bouncy, brutal hip-hop-infused metallic hardcore is up to bat via the new Bovice jam “Sluggo Season.”
Video Premiere: Align the Tide – “Unbreakable”
July 27, 2022 Sean Frasier
Maltese metalheads Align the Tide uppercut your day with a bruising new single and video, “Unbreakable.” New album Hollow out August 26th.
Full Album Stream: Raptore ‘Blackfire’
July 25, 2022 Chris Dick
Spanish speed metallers Raptore resurrect the past to burn down the future on new album,
Scumdog Cinema: Director Scott Barber Talks “This is GWAR” Documentary
July 20, 2022 Shawn Macomber
We speak with director Scott Barber about his poignant, hilarious and inspiring documentary This is GWAR which arrives Friday.
Album Premiere: Wailin Storms – ‘The Silver Snake Unfolds’
July 20, 2022 Sean Frasier
Southern Gothic post-punks Wailin Storms bring the thunder on their upcoming album, The Silver Snake Unfolds.
Track Premiere: Exaltation – “Iron Rebellion”
July 19, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Here’s a nice helping of New Zealand death metal to start your Tuesday–check out Exaltation‘s new track, “Iron Rebellion.”
Track Premiere: The Sombre “The Mourning Gloom”
July 18, 2022 Chris Dick
Gnaw Their Tongues mastermind Maurice de Jong falls before draconian times on new The Sombre elegy “The Mourning Gloom.” Streaming in slow motion now!
Read an Exclusive Excerpt from ‘Destination Onward – The Story of Fates Warning,’ The New Book by Jeff Wagner
July 15, 2022 Decibel Magazine
This 400-page behemoth chronicles virtually every facet of the progressive metal heroes’ 40-year history with the cooperation of every single member of Fates Warning, past and present.
Video Premiere: Sinning Hard and Thrashing Harder with Israeli Thrashers Sinnery
July 14, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch Israeli thrashers Sinnery employ all the sinister-looking evil that comes with nefarious tropes like monk’s robes, cauldrons, excessive candle usage, religious symbology, ritual killings, cult activities and attempted bloody rebellion against such.
Track Premiere: Grace — “Wasteland”
July 13, 2022 Shawn Macomber
Check out the exclusive premiere below of Grace‘s fiery, enlivening new single “Wasteland,” which hits all digital platforms this Friday via Upstate Records.
Album Premiere: Ashenspire – ‘Hostile Architecture’
July 13, 2022 Sean Frasier
Scottish black metal project Ashenspire demolish power structures on their new LP, Hostile Architecture.
Bjørnson, Beers & Bears: A Fire In the Mountains 2022 Festival Preview
July 11, 2022 Decibel Magazine
Festival organizers Jeremy Walker and Alex Feher, as well as lineup curation mastermind Shane McCarthy, on the return of Wyoming’s great wilderness fest.
Track Premiere: Witnesses – “Cloistered in Purfleet”
July 6, 2022 Sean Frasier
New York heavy ambient project Witnesses are seduced by gothic doom on their vampiric new single, “Cloistered in Purfleet.”
Track Premiere: Extermination Day “Kill (Like a Motherfucker)”
July 4, 2022 Chris Dick
Minnesota-based heavy rock act Extermination Day premiere “Kill (Like a Motherfucker)” off their debut album Be the Consequence at Decibel.
Track by Track: Kardashev – ‘Liminal Rite’
June 30, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Arizona deathgaze quartet Kardashev ruminate on the failings of memory in their track-by-track commentary of ‘Liminal Rite.’
Album Stream: Get Weird, Wild and Wacky with Thirteen Goats’ Servants of the Outer Dark
June 30, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut long-player by Vancouver death/thrashers Thirteen Goats!
Video Premiere: Cyborg Octopus – “Seizure of Character”
June 29, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Check out the latest video from Cyborg Octopus, “Seizure of Character,” in advance of the band’s forthcoming August 26 release, Between the Light and Air.
Track Premiere: Point Break — “I Am”
June 29, 2022 Shawn Macomber
No Keanu, but the latest metallic hardcore jam from Pointbreak hangs a hard ten nonetheless.
Album Premiere: Existence Dysphoria – ‘Minus Negative’
June 29, 2022 Sean Frasier
London sludge trio Existence Dysphoria unveil their crushing debut album Minus Negative. Out July 1st through Sludgelord Records.
Video Premiere: Child Bite – “Pass the Glue”
June 28, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
If you’re passin’ the glue, there’s a good chance Detroit’s Child Bite will sniff it.
Video Premiere: The Boneless Ones –“Good Friends”
June 28, 2022 Justin Norton
Watch crossover thrashers The Boneless Ones address the loved ones that suicide leaves behind in this view.
Full Album Premiere: Animalize – ‘Meat We’re Made of’
June 27, 2022 Chris Dick
French heavy metallers Animalize lick it up on new album Meat We’re Made Of. Full album stream in chainsaws, spandex and chiffon only at Decibel!
Q&A: Temple of Void’s Alex Awn And Mike Erdody Paint The World Doom
June 27, 2022 Chris Dick
Temple of Void‘s Alex Awn And Mike Erdody talk death-doom, Warhammer 40K, and new album Summoning the Slayer.
Full Album Premiere: Intoxicated ‘Watch You Burn’
June 22, 2022 Chris Dick
Florida thrash institution Intoxicated stream new album Watch You Burn. Only thrashing death is real at Decibel!
Track Premiere: Turian — “Snakehead”
June 22, 2022 Shawn Macomber
Crust. Grind. Metallic death metal. Noise. Seattle’s Turian comes at you hard on “Snakehead” with everything but the grunge.
Track Premiere: War Babies — “March of the Mindless”
June 22, 2022 Shawn Macomber
Featuring members of Kill Your Idols, Sheer Terror, and Survivalist, War Babies wields an expansive NYHC attack against social media mindlessness on its latest track.
Album Premiere: Our Dying World – ‘Hymns of Blinding Darkness’
June 22, 2022 Sean Frasier
Los Angeles symphonic melodeath eulogists Our Dying World write a vicious obituary with their new album, Hymns of Blinding Darkness.
Full EP Stream: Fixtures – “Live at Robert Lang Studios”
June 21, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Seattle post-hardcore trio Fixtures reimagine what a live album can be with their new EP Live at Robert Lang Studios, which is streaming in full right now.
Track Premiere: Wipes – “Summer”
June 21, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Wipes, an Allentown-PA based noise rock and sludge band, are going to blow you away with their debut full-length, Making Friends. Check out the first single from the album, “Summer.”
Album Premiere: Oktas – ‘The Finite and the Infinite’
June 20, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
The latest from Oktas, the epic, full-length The Finite and the Infinite, is streaming with us right now, and it’s the perfect way to start off your week.