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No Corporate Beer Reviews: Full of Hell
June 24, 2022 Nick Green
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 Decibel Magazine
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 Gene Meyer
Get down with the latest video from Indonesian rot ‘n’ rollers BLCKHWK.
Album Premiere: Werewolves – ‘From the Cave to the Grave’
June 23, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
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 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.
Track Premiere: Bloodlet – “Stealing Fire”
June 15, 2022 Shawn Macomber
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 Sean Frasier
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 Gene Meyer
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 Shawn Macomber
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 Sean Frasier
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 Gene Meyer
Veteran Baltigrinders Triac channel punk fury into metallic bliss on new release Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals.
DEADGUY’s ‘Buyer’s Remorse: Live From the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest’ Out Now, “Makeshift Atomsmasher” Video Revealed
June 7, 2022 Decibel Magazine
Decibel Records’ inaugural release, Deadguy’s Buyer’s Remorse: Live From the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest, is released today and now shipping!
Q&A: Patrick O’Neil On His 80s Hardcore Memoir Anarchy At The Circle K
June 6, 2022 Justin Norton
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 Decibel Magazine
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 Cosmo Lee
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 Sean Frasier
Join Funeral Oppression’s bleak and blackened cemetery procession by playing their new single, “Just To Live.”
Blast Worship: Suffering Mind
May 31, 2022 Gene Meyer
Hear the unkind grind of Poland’s Suffering Mind.
Revisiting the Supreme: The “War On Illusion” Zine Reissue
May 25, 2022 Shawn Macomber
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 Sean Frasier
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 Gene Meyer
The fourth annual Mathcore Index fest will feature such genre stalwarts as gif. from god, Black Matter Device, Frail Body, fallfiftyfeet and more.
Opeth, Darkthrone, Paradise Lost Members Reflect on CANDLEMASS’s ‘Epicus Doomicus Metallicus’
May 23, 2022 Chris Dick
In honor of Candlemass’s full-album performance of their landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on June 10, scene royalty reflects on the LP’s impact.
KREATOR Dominate the Cover of Decibel’s July Issue. Copies Available Now!
May 20, 2022 Decibel Magazine
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 Sean Frasier
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 Gene Meyer
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 J. Andrew
This week’s new releases features a group of standard-bearing heroes like Terror, Jungle Rot, Misery Index and more!
Full Album Stream: Mutilatred – “Determined to Rot”
May 11, 2022 Emily Bellino
Ohio brutal death dealers Mutilatred go for the kill on Determined to Rot.
Track Premiere: Instigate – “Haruspex”
May 11, 2022 Sean Frasier
Death grinders Instigate predict the apocalypse on “Haruspex.” Off their upcoming album Unheeded Warnings of Decay.
Demo:listen: Nuclear Christ
May 10, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen welcomes the apocalyptic annihilation of Floridian death metal troops Nuclear Christ.
Full Album Stream: Void Wraith – II
May 10, 2022 Dutch Pearce
An exclusive early stream of the incendiary second full-length from Seattle black metal manifestation Void Wraith.