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Blackened scumpunks Black Knife just released their homicidal LP, Murder Season. Founding vocalist/guitarist Hellwulv describes its fury track by track.

Regional Justice Center’s sophomore full-length Crime and Punishment is our grinding face-peeler of the week.

NWOAHM kings Haunt release the first single from Beautiful Distraction, due out April 2.

“This song is a vehicle for that feeling and relates it back to dissociation and being lost in strange dimensions and dreams.”

Maryland grinders Jarhead Fertilizer emerge from six years of recording silence with Product of My Environment.

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.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, March 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from straight edge hardcore heroes Earth Crisis.

Rising Brazilian melodic death metallers Venomous aren’t about to stay in their subgenre lane for this diverse, killer new EP.

San Jose trio Socioclast unleash an early contender for grindcore album of the year on Carbonized.

“We really just wanted to write some classic death metal with horror-inspired lyrics, all without taking ourselves too seriously!”

Thirty years after summoning modern hardcore into existence with the Cro-Mags’ debut, Parris Mayhew is back with some new face-blasting alchemy.

Polish hostiles Upon the Altar release their debut LP of devastating blackened death, Absid ab Ordine Luminis.

Middle Days of Humanity: think of them as the Empire Strikes Back of ridiculous-sounding goregrind.

Decibel is pleased to present, for the thrashing-mad among us, an exclusive stream of the debut album from Sweden’s Paranorm.

Wintherr is ready to unleash another storm of cold black metal brilliance! Check out “Bluet” from Paysage d’Hiver‘s upcoming album.

Downtuned Denver sludge trio Oryx cast shadows and break bones with their new sledgehammer of a single, “Misery.”

Boston comrades Greylock and BEDTIMEMAGIC join forces for a split album of sludgy bedlam from Tor Johnson Records.

A pair of two of the Northwest’s most crushing bands team up for a new split on Dropping Bombs.

German blasters Pari’sya drop just a hint of Scandinavian blackness into their debut EP, SOG.

Death metal vocal king Mike DiSalvo and members of Mercurial and Misery Index team up to to record a ripping cover of Napalm Death’s Fear, Emptiness, Despair classic.

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Kowloon Walled City and KEN mode come together to help Shallow North Dakota‘s Tony Jacome

Tefnut is an ongoing collaboration series between Richmond’s The Veil and Swedish nomad brewing operation Omnipollo that offers radical reinterpretations of fruited gose. This one gose to 11… almost.

Members of Eyehategod, Darkest Hour, KEN mode, Possessed and more discuss the humble beginnings of their first high school bands.

Californian supergroup Seized Up deck you with an uppercut of hardcore punk in the upcoming EP’s title track, “Marching Down the Spiral.”

Get fully amped on Canadian powerviolence bashers MAXXPOWER

Because we’re not even a full month into 2021 and there is still music to discover. And because you can’t get enough goddamn lists, here are 35 more from 2020 to chew on.

Bleach Everything breaks on through to the other side on the avant punk hardcore masterpiece Bound/Cured.

The Ruins of Beverast emerge from the fog of a new year with their sixth LP of cerebral blackened doom, The Thule Grimoires.

Los Angeles grinders Guilt Dispenser are our blasting band of the week.