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Full Album Stream: Prayer Group –Strawberry
August 25, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear bruising secular secular noise rockers, Prayer Group, whip out their big ten-inch… record, Strawberry.
Album Premiere: Visitant’s Rubidium is Very Much an Active Metallic Element
August 21, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Give the debut album from Floridian alchemists Visitant an advance listen!
Full Album Stream: Hebephrenique –Decathexis
August 20, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Aussie post-black metal madmen Hebephrenique are going off the rails on their frenetic debut Decathexis.
Video Premiere: No Apologies – “Grief”
August 18, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hardcore Aussies, No Apologies, cope with the pain of a devastating loss on new track “Grief.”
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Truth Paste”
August 13, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Sandrider’s Jon Weisnewski delivers some grindcore insanity via his latest Nuclear Dudes track, “Truth Paste,” featuring vocalist Brandon Nakamura (ex-Teen Chtulu).
Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”
August 13, 2025 Tim Mudd
From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.
Track by Track: Incite –Savage New Times
August 11, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Phoenix groovecore brutalizers Incite take us track-by-track through their thrashtastic seventh full-length, Savage New Times.
Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”
August 8, 2025 Tim Mudd
Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”
A Brief Reading Round-Up from the Heavy Metal Book Club
August 7, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
On the eve of a massive Decibel Books announcement, Kevin Stewart-Panko wants you to know what’s on his summer reading list.
Track Premiere: Heads for the Dead Channel Cronenberg and Necrophagia on “To The Very Last”
August 6, 2025 Tim Mudd
Heads for the Dead—helmed by Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath) and Ralf Hauber (Revel in Flesh, ROTPIT)—have emerged from the fog with their fourth full-length, Never Ending Night of Terror. Get a taste now.
Track Premiere: Revelator – “Death Serenade”
August 4, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Canadian black death warriors Revelator growl their vicious “Death Serenade” on their new single.
Video Premiere: Corridoré – “Like Moths”
July 30, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
No bull, the new video, “Like Moths,” from post-black metal maestros Corridoré is a helluva ride.
Track Premiere: Birth and Loss – “Birth and Loss”
July 30, 2025 Tim Mudd
Grind legend Takafumi Matsubara (Gridlink, Mortalized) returns with a vengeance in his latest forward-thinking project, Birth and Loss.
Full Album Stream: Lommi –667788
July 28, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Swedish riff-lords Lommi buzz through eight groove-laden tracks on new full-length, 667788.
Track Premiere: Wading Through the Shit With Deaf Club’s “Crap Circles”
July 24, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Wrap your ears around an advance listen of new material from Deaf Club!
Video Premiere: MRSA – “I Am the Swarm”
July 23, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
We’re all abuzz over the new track, “I Am the Swarm,” from Florida horror hounds MRSA .
Video Premiere: Torn From Existence – “Tempted by the Necromancer”
July 23, 2025 Tim Mudd
Decibel is proud to premiere the music video for “Tempted by the Necromancer,” a stand-out cut from the Torn From Existence‘s 2024 debut Hearken the Darkened Skies.
Q&A: Jarvis Leatherby on Night Demon’s Curse of the Damned box set
July 21, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Night Demon bassist/vocalist Jarvis Leatherby discusses the band’s upcoming limited release 10th anniversary Curse of the Damned box set.
Track Premiere: Anthrodynia – “Engulfed in Grief”
July 16, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear new Edmonton, Alberta death doom duo Anthrodynia turn that smile upside down on depressive new track “Engulfed in Grief.”
Album Premiere: Eternal Darkness – ‘Eternal Darkness’
July 16, 2025 Tim Mudd
Swedish death/doom legends Eternal Darkness have returned from the grave only to immediately crawl back in. Hear their self-titled final bow now.
Fire in the Mountains 2025: Return, Renewal and Reverence
July 15, 2025 Tim Mudd
Three years after its last gathering beneath the jagged silhouettes of the Tetons, Fire in the Mountains returns—reignited and reimagined on the sovereign lands of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, July 25–27.
Video Premiere: Dwellers – “Headlines”
July 14, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Members of Failure, Iota and Last converge in Salt Lake City quartet Dwellers and issue new animated video for progressive post-grunge track “Headlines.”
EP Premiere: Opening the Curtains to Blood Brain Barrier’s Windows Drenched in Red
July 10, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take an advance listen to the debut EP from blackened death doom duo Blood Brain Barrier!
Track Premiere: Black Magnet – “Night Tripping”
July 9, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Oklahoma-based industrial metal outfit Black Magnet drop the latest single from forthcoming LP Megamantra out July 25 through Federal Prisoner.
Album Premiere: Glacier Expand Their Post-Metal Universe with More Distant/More Violent
July 9, 2025 Tim Mudd
Boston post-metal architects Glacier return with More Distant/More Violent—a blistering, industrial-tinged companion piece to last year’s A Distant, Violent Shudder.
Track Premiere: Whitehorse – “The Wait”
July 7, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Aussie drone demons Whitehorse offer up a new track, “The Wait,” from their sludge match split, The Dissolution of Eternity, with UBOA.
You Should Listen to Blood Monolith
July 7, 2025 Emily Bellino
Revisit (or listen for the first time) Blood Monolith‘s debut album.
Track Premiere: Vittra – “Reign Supreme”
July 2, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Swedish death thrashers Vittra do their own meaty version of death ’n’ roll on new single “Reign Supreme.”
Track Premiere: Anchorite – “Devil on the Throne”
June 30, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Euro doom crushers Anchorite lay the lumber on new single, “Devil on the Throne,” featuring a guest solo from Michael Denner (ex-Mercyful Fate).
Track Premiere: Recurrence – “Remember Who the Enemy Is”
June 27, 2025 Tim Mudd
When melodic death metal, metalcore, and groove collide, you get the sharpened steel of Recurrence—and their new single, “Remember Who The Enemy Is,” drives that point straight into your chest.
