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No Corporate Beer Reviews: Full of Hell

June 24, 2022

Get full of beer via the wonderfully crushable Wake x Full of Hell collaboration Italian Pils.

The New-Look Decibel Web Store Opens With Limited Autographed FULL OF HELL Vinyl

June 24, 2022

Celebrate the relaunched Decibel web store with 24 autographed copies of our exclusive gold edition of Full of Hell’s amazing Garden of Burning Apparitions.

Video Premiere: BLCKHWK – “Decomposing Rotting Flesh”

June 23, 2022

Get down with the latest video from Indonesian rot ‘n’ rollers BLCKHWK.

Album Premiere: Werewolves – ‘From the Cave to the Grave’

June 23, 2022

Hear the new record from Australia black/death dealers Werewolves, From the Cave to the Grave, in advance of its June 24 release via Prosthetic Records.

Track Premiere: War Babies — “March of the Mindless”

June 22, 2022

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

Los Angeles symphonic melodeath eulogists Our Dying World write a vicious obituary with their new album, Hymns of Blinding Darkness.

Track Premiere: Bloodlet – “Stealing Fire”

June 15, 2022

Florida sludge-laden metallic hardcore legends Bloodlet return with the eternal fire and liver-eating anthem “Stealing Fire.”

Album Premiere: Gozer – ‘An Endless Static’

June 15, 2022

U.K. post-metal trio Gozer channel catharsis through crushing distortion on their upcoming album, An Endless Static.

Video Premiere: Black Matter Device – “Blood Splatter Ink Blot”

June 14, 2022

Like any good American mathcore act, Richmond, Virginia’s Black Matter Device pass the Rorschach test in latest video.

Visual Violence: Legendary Underground Music Promoter Rich Hall Brings the Heavy to Fine Arts Gallery Show

June 8, 2022

Metal/hardcore/punk promotor extraordinaire Rich Hall picks up a paintbrush with exquisitely brutal fine arts results.

Track Premiere: Dust Prophet – “When the Axe Falls”

June 8, 2022

New Hampshire stoner rockers Dust Prophet swap the bong for the blade in their new single “When the Axe Falls.”

Blast Worship: Triac

June 7, 2022

Veteran Baltigrinders Triac channel punk fury into metallic bliss on new release Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals.

Q&A: Patrick O’Neil On His 80s Hardcore Memoir Anarchy At The Circle K

June 6, 2022

In his latest book, Anarchy At the Circle K, Patrick O ‘Neil writes about 80s hardcore in a narrative that’s a combination of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life.

Pre-Order CASTRATOR’s Debut Album on Decibel’s Exclusive Vinyl Color RIGHT NOW!

June 3, 2022

Castrator’s long-awaited debut album Defiled in Oblivion is now available for pre-order and Decibel has our own exclusive edition on Hot Pink & Black Galaxy vinyl limited to just 100 copies.

Deafheaven’s George Clarke & Kerry McCoy on Sobriety, Surfing and Stage Stamina

June 2, 2022

In the latest installment of Health Awaits, a Decibel fitness column, George Clarke & Kerry McCoy of Deafheaven discuss the relationship between sobriety and metal and physical fitness.

Track Premiere: Funeral Oppression – “Just To Live”

June 1, 2022

Join Funeral Oppression’s bleak and blackened cemetery procession by playing their new single, “Just To Live.”

Revisiting the Supreme: The “War On Illusion” Zine Reissue

May 25, 2022

A deluxe reissue of hardcore legend Porcell‘s early 90s zine “War on Illusion” remains an edifying and subversive document of a searching scene in intellectual as well as musical flux.

Track Premiere: Idol Throne – “Unholy Warrior”

May 25, 2022

Indiana power thrashers Idol Throne brandish bloody steel on their new single “Unholy Warrior.”

Mathcore Index Reveals Festival Lineup for 2022 Edition

May 24, 2022

The fourth annual Mathcore Index fest will feature such genre stalwarts as gif. from god, Black Matter Device, Frail Body, fallfiftyfeet and more.

KREATOR Dominate the Cover of Decibel’s July Issue. Copies Available Now!

May 20, 2022

We have a limited number of advance copies of the July issue of Decibel, featuring our exclusive new flexi disc EP from experimental death/grinders Fawn Limbs available NOW!

Album Premiere: MNRVA – ‘Hollow’

May 18, 2022

South Carolina sludge trio MNRVA summon black skies with their doomy debut LP, Hollow. Live deliciously and listen early.

Blast Worship: No/Mas

May 17, 2022

Four years after their first Blast Worship appearance, we revisit DC grind heroes No/Más. Unsurprisingly, they still rule.

Five For Friday: May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022

This week’s new releases features a group of standard-bearing heroes like Terror, Jungle Rot, Misery Index and more!

Track Premiere: Instigate – “Haruspex”

May 11, 2022

Death grinders Instigate predict the apocalypse on “Haruspex.” Off their upcoming album Unheeded Warnings of Decay.

Demo:listen: Nuclear Christ

May 10, 2022

This week Demo:listen welcomes the apocalyptic annihilation of Floridian death metal troops Nuclear Christ.

Full Album Stream: Void Wraith – II

May 10, 2022

An exclusive early stream of the incendiary second full-length from Seattle black metal manifestation Void Wraith.