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No Corporate Beer Reviews: Coolship Red
January 15, 2021 Nick Green
Allagash Brewing Company’s Coolship Red lambic is a nectar made by mortals, fit for the gods.
Video Premiere: Without Mercy’s “I Break the Chain” Showcases Blast Beats, Breakdowns, Beer Guts and Brogues
January 14, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new video by BC death thrashers Without Mercy.
Track Premiere: Belushi Speed Ball — “Captain Planet Can’t Stop Us”
January 13, 2021 Shawn Macomber
A green superhero sees red on Louisville crossover thrash sluggers Belushi Speed Ball‘s latest high-octane jam.
Album Premiere: Coffins – ‘Defilements’
January 13, 2021 Sean Frasier
Japanese death crust hellbringers Coffins release a savage two-hour compilation of rancid rarities on Defilement.
Threads of Darkness: Ex-Agalloch Bassist Jason Walton Resurrects Classic Disharmonic Orchestra & Confessor Shirt Designs
January 6, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Former Agalloch bassist Jason Walton is raising classic underground metal T-shirts and hoodies from the dead.
King Diamond – “Them”
January 5, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Amid all the now-legendary albums of 1988, one ridiculously awesome effort stands out from the rest. That album is King Diamond’s third solo LP, “Them”. Welcome back (home) to the Hall of Fame, Grandma.
Blast Worship: Squashed Beef
January 5, 2021 Gene Meyer
Connecticut crew Squashed Beef are low on drama, high on blasts and burger puns.
Video Premiere: Taking it to the Streets with Moxiebeat’s “People’s Protection Program”
December 31, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch the new video by DIY hardcore ragers Moxiebeat!
Tales From the Metalnomicon: Horror Author V Castro on Metal Invocations, “Latinx Screams,” and Her Season in the Abyss
December 30, 2020 Shawn Macomber
The Mexican American horror author V Castro brings heavy metal fire to the Latinx Screams anthology.
Video Premiere: Left to Vanish – “Pity”
December 30, 2020 Sean Frasier
Venture into the darkness to watch the music video from metalcore throne-smashers Left to Vanish. Stream their new single “Pity” now.
Blast Worship’s Top 20 Grindcore Songs of 2020
December 29, 2020 Gene Meyer
2020 is (almost) fucking dead! Long live the best blasting bits of 2020!
Radical Sonic Formulas: Swiss Metallic Hardcore Trailblazers Knut Reissue “Leftovers”
December 23, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Knut‘s noisy metallic hardcore “leftovers” are tastier than most extreme music main courses.
Album Premiere and Interview: Transilvania – ‘Of Sleep and Death’
December 23, 2020 Sean Frasier
Sink your fangs into the morbid majesty of Of Sleep and Death, the furious new LP from Austrian black metal nightbringers Transilvania.
Incantation’s John McEntee and Chuck Sherwood Provide ‘Sect of Vile Divinities’ Track-By-Track Breakdown
December 22, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Incantation takes you on a track-by-track tour of their death metal juggernaut Sect of Vile Divinities
Deck the Hails Part II: The Revenge of Neill Jameson’s Christmas Playlist
December 21, 2020 Neill Jameson
Four years after the original installment, Neill Jameson returns and sounds off on the Christmas season and gives you the gift of holiday playlists.
Track Premiere: Grabunhold “In Tiefen Verliesen”
December 21, 2020 Chris Dick
German black metallers Grabunhold launch new track, “In Tiefen Verliesen,” off new album Heldentod. Only at Decibel!
Exsul’s Debut EP Unleashes an Inferno of Terror
December 18, 2020 J. Andrew
Tucson, Arizona’s Exsul have arrived on the scene with a masterful witch’s brew of doom, death and black metal darkness.
‘Heavy Metal Movies’ Author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden Passes Away
December 17, 2020 Justin Norton
Decibel mourns the loss of Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of a pair of modern classics for Bazillion Points, Heavy Metal Movies and Teen Movie Hell.
Track Premiere: Acid Womb – ‘The Woods’
December 15, 2020 Gene Meyer
Ontario based two-piece Acid Womb grapple with the impact of PTSD on their new Grief EP.
Video Premiere: Folterkammer – ‘Die Hymne’
December 11, 2020 Vince Bellino
Watch Folterkammer combine opera and black metal in their new music video.
Cynic Bassist Sean Malone Dies at 50
December 10, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Decibel sends our deepest condolences to his family, friends, bandmates and countless fans around the world. Rest in power, Sean.
Always Love, Never Fear: Harvey Milk’s Creston Spiers Talks Bringing it All Back Home
December 9, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Harvey Milk frontman Creston Spiers returns with a predictably unpredictable, heavy, fuzzy take on classic rock.
Album Premiere and Interview: Gjoad – ‘Samanōn’
December 9, 2020 Sean Frasier
Austrian newcomers Gjoad create entrancing worlds with atmospheric dark rock on their debut LP, Samanōn.
Blast Worship: Incinerated
December 8, 2020 Gene Meyer
Hear Aussie death blasters Incinerated deliver a new split of thunderous hyper goreblast insanity mixed with absolutely bowel-shaking slam.
Listen: Sumac Release Release Massive New Song, “Two Beasts”
December 7, 2020 Vince Bellino
Post-metal gods Sumac return with a surprise drop.
Video Premiere: Tibetan Sky Burial’s “Flesh Rot” Highlights Ritual and Decay in the Texas Hill Country
December 3, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new video by unique Texas black metal crew Tibetan Sky Burial!
Full EP Stream: Ten Ton Hammer – ‘New Failures’
December 3, 2020 Gene Meyer
Philadelphia-based bashers Ten Ton Hammer drop five new tracks of ’90s-fueled metal and hardcore squarely on your cranium with the New Failures EP.
Global Grindcore Alliance Brings International Bands Together
December 2, 2020 Vince Bellino
20 grind bands. 2 days. Socially distanced.
Album Premiere: Morpholith – ‘Null Dimensions’
December 2, 2020 Sean Frasier
Icelandic voidwalkers Morpholith teleport listeners with the cosmic doom of their Null Dimensions sophomore EP.
Video Premiere: Night Cobra – ‘Escape From Earth”
December 1, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Houston-based trad metallers do John Carpenter proud in the new video for “Escape from Earth.”