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Track Premiere: Solstice “Ignite”
April 12, 2021 Chris Dick
Florida death/thrash legends Solstice spark personal resolve on new track “Ignite.” Streaming faster and harder at Decibel!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Croatoan
April 9, 2021 Nick Green
Toast the release of Zao’s new album, The Crimson Corridor, with Croatoan, the band’s incredible new beer collab with Grand Rapids’ Speciation Artisan Ales.
Track Premiere: Reality Grey Offers a ‘Powerblast’ of Modern Melodic Death Metal
April 8, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear new music from Italian melodi-deathsters, Reality Grey!
Track Premieres: Human Obliteration and Vile Species Deliver a Grind Double-Dose
April 6, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear the ripping new split from Sacramento’s Human Obliteration and Athens-based maniacs Vile Species.
Album Stream: Impure – ‘The Carrion Feast’
April 2, 2021 Sean Frasier
Blackened death duo Impure summon hellfire with their sinister 7″ release of “The Carrion Feast” and “Into Cataclysm.”
Full Album Premiere: Karkait – ‘Yevul’
March 30, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear Jerusalem’s Karkait bring forth its potent mix of black metal anguish and angular grindcore on Yevul
Track Premiere: Empty Throne – ‘And All Shall Know His Name’
March 29, 2021 Emily Bellino
Blackened death tour de force Empty Throne (feat. current and former members of Possessed, Abbath, The Kennedy Veil and Angerot) debut their first song.
Converge Contribute an Exclusive Track to the Decibel Flexi Series!
March 26, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, April 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from the legendary Converge.
Nancy Barile’s Soundtrack for Punk Rock Rebellion
March 24, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Writer/award-winning educator/hardcore punk trailblazer Nancy Barile curates an eclectic, vivifying playlist to mark the release of her stellar new memoir “I’m Not Holding Your Coat.
Album Premiere: Ghostbound – ‘Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme’
March 24, 2021 Sean Frasier
Set sail with Brooklyn’s Ghostbound on their newest nautical release, Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme.
Blast Worship: Sulk
March 23, 2021 Gene Meyer
U.K. blasters Sulk do the very opposite via their eclectic, self-aware grindcore.
Paradise Lost’s “Gothic” Turns 30! Celebrate With Our Classic Hall of Fame Story
March 19, 2021 Decibel Magazine
On the 30th anniversary of Paradise Lost‘s death/doom landmark Gothic LP, we unearth our long lost
Album Premiere: Amammoth – ‘The Fire Above’
March 17, 2021 Sean Frasier
Australian doom trio Amammoth light prehistoric joints from a stoner/sludge bonfire on their debut LP, The Fire Above.
Q&A: Laurie Sue Shanaman (Ails) on a Year of Essential Work During the Pandemic
March 16, 2021 Justin Norton
Ails’ vocalist works as a case manager in San Francisco where she assists homeless citizens transitioning to supportive housing. Shanaman discusses putting her health on the line to ensure that the most vulnerable among us continue to have a lifeline.
Blast Worship: Last Days of Humanity
March 16, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear Dutch goregrinders Last Days of Humanity “clean up” their sound on Horrific Compositions of Decomposition.
Decibel’s 200th Issue Show Extremely Ex-Stream Line-Up Announced!
March 12, 2021 Albert Mudrian
North America’s only monthly metal magazine celebrates 200 issues via a FREE streaming event featuring new and exclusive sets from Midnight, Khemmis, Full of Hell, Horrendous and Wake.
Track Premiere: Crypts of Despair – “Excruciating Weight”
March 11, 2021 Sean Frasier
Get crushed by the “Excruciating Weight” of Lithuanian death metal duskbringers Crypts of Despair. All Light Swallowed is out April 23rd.
Album Stream: Getting Tipsy on WitchTit’s “Intoxicating Lethargy”
March 11, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear Intoxicating Lethargy, the debut album by not-as-cold-as-you’ve-been-led-to-believe doomsters WitchTit!
Exclusive Stream: Merauder — “94 Demo”
March 10, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Revisit the apprentice killer days of metallic hardcore innovators Merauder.
Track by Track: Black Knife – ‘Murder Season’
March 10, 2021 Sean Frasier
Blackened scumpunks Black Knife just released their homicidal LP, Murder Season. Founding vocalist/guitarist Hellwulv describes its fury track by track.
Blast Worship: Regional Justice Center
March 9, 2021 Gene Meyer
Regional Justice Center’s sophomore full-length Crime and Punishment is our grinding face-peeler of the week.
Haunt Release New Track “In Our Dreams” From Forthcoming “Beautiful Distraction” LP
March 5, 2021 Albert Mudrian
NWOAHM kings Haunt release the first single from Beautiful Distraction, due out April 2.
Track Premiere: Zao – “Croatoan”
March 4, 2021 J. Andrew
“This song is a vehicle for that feeling and relates it back to dissociation and being lost in strange dimensions and dreams.”
Blast Worship: Jarhead Fertilizer
March 2, 2021 Gene Meyer
Maryland grinders Jarhead Fertilizer emerge from six years of recording silence with Product of My Environment.
Track Premiere: Icon of Sin – “Icon of Sin”
March 1, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Icon of Sin don’t want you for dead. But they’re gonna get you check out their eponymous new single of classic heavy metal from their forthcoming debut LP.
Earth Crisis To Release “Smash or Be Smashed” Via the Decibel Flexi Series
February 26, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, March 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from straight edge hardcore heroes Earth Crisis.
EP Premiere: Venomous — “Tribus”
February 24, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Rising Brazilian melodic death metallers Venomous aren’t about to stay in their subgenre lane for this diverse, killer new EP.
Blast Worship: Socioclast
February 23, 2021 Gene Meyer
San Jose trio Socioclast unleash an early contender for grindcore album of the year on Carbonized.
Album Premiere: Coffin Mulch – ‘Septic Funeral’
February 22, 2021 J. Andrew
“We really just wanted to write some classic death metal with horror-inspired lyrics, all without taking ourselves too seriously!”
Return of the (Hardcore) King: Parris Mayhew Summons “Chaos Magic”
February 17, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Thirty years after summoning modern hardcore into existence with the Cro-Mags’ debut, Parris Mayhew is back with some new face-blasting alchemy.