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Track Premiere: Same Gods — “In Circles”
July 1, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Worship at the altar of post-hardcore powerhouse Same Gods via the melody-tinged incantation “In Circles.”
Album Premiere: Shroud of Vulture – ‘Upon a Throne of Jackals’
July 1, 2020 Sean Frasier
Indianapolis death/doom dissenters Shroud of Vulture invert tyranny on their crushing debut LP Upon a Throne of Jackals.
Blast Worship: Hate for Humanity
June 30, 2020 Gene Meyer
CA grinders Hate for Humanity specialize in short and violent, like Joe Pesci beating Billy Bats into the fucking ground.
Andrew Lee of Ripped to Shreds on Ending Racist Stereotypes Against Asians in Metal
June 29, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Ripped to Shreds frontman Andrew Lee addresses the work that needs to be done in fighting dangerous stereotypes against Asians and Asian-Americans in underground metal.
Album Premiere: Ahab – ‘Live Prey’
June 25, 2020 Sean Frasier
Return to distant waters with German funeral doom mariners Ahab as they revisit their legendary The Call of the Wretched Sea debut on Live Prey.
Fallow Heart: The Winterfylleth Review Reckoning
June 24, 2020 Forrest Pitts
Fallow Heart and Decibel contributor Daniel Lake discuss music journalism cosplay and the recently released Winterfylleth album.
Santos Montano Pens Old Man Gloom Tour Diary (For a Tour that Never Happened), Part III
June 23, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Old Man Gloom drummer Santos Montano pens Part III of tour diary for the band’s postponed 2020 tour.
Blast Worship: Putrid Parrot
June 23, 2020 Gene Meyer
One-man grind machine Putrid Parrot doesn’t cry fowl.
EP Streaming: Denver’s Hydraform Attacks from All Angles
June 18, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to an advance stream of Hydraform‘s Sylvia Massy-produced EP
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Crucifixion – Third Servile War
June 17, 2020 Nick Green
How did Nightmare Brewing Company do on their Imperial DIPA Crucifixion? They nailed it!
1995: The Year in Not-So-Metal Heaviness
June 17, 2020 Shawn Macomber
1995 wasn’t merely a great year for the extremely extreme — it was also an amazing trip around the sun for metal-adjacent music.
Interview: Atavist’s Evocative Doom Returns with ‘III: Absolution’
June 17, 2020 Sean Frasier
Manchester doom artisans Atavist are back to disrupt a decade of silence with their cathartic ode to loss and resilience, III: Absolution.
Five Doom Classics that Evaded Our Yearbook: 1995 Issue’s Top 40 Albums of the Year List
June 16, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Decibel dives deep beyond the Peaceville Three with this death/doom addendum to our our new Decibel Yearbook: 1995 issue.
Blast Worship: ASADA
June 16, 2020 Gene Meyer
Get down with the brown(sville) sound of Texas grindcore machine ASADA.
Santos Montano Pens Old Man Gloom Tour Diary (For a Tour that Never Happened), Part II
June 15, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Old Man Gloom drummer Santos Montano pens Part II of tour diary for the band’s postponed 2020 tour.
Announcing the “Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology: Volume III” Book! Pre-Order NOW!
June 12, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Our latest, limited edition webstore exclusive includes 25 more Hall of Fame stories from our revered monthly series of artist interviews on the making of their classic extreme music albums.
Video Premiere: ILS — “No Luck”
June 10, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Portland noise rockers ILS bring you a bouquet of zero-leaf clovers with “No Luck.”
Album Premiere and Interview: Obscene – ‘The Inhabitable Dark’
June 10, 2020 Sean Frasier
Indianapolis death metal quartet Obscene cast doomsday shadows with their nocturnal new LP, The Inhabitable Dark.
Decibel Presents The Top 5 Demo Tapes of 1995
June 9, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Or, Through a Speaker Rumbly ’95. Decibel travels somewhere on tape with this adendum to our our new Decibel Yearbook: 1995 issue.
Blast Worship: Holy Grinder
June 9, 2020 Gene Meyer
Jump, jump, jump on the tiger and feel the heart of Canadian noisemongers Holy Grinder.
Vreid Announce “In the mountains of Sognametal” Live Session
June 8, 2020 Michael Wohlberg
The Norwegian melodic black metal Vreid outfit announce their upcoming stream live from the fjords of their homeland this Saturday, June 13th at 3 PM EDT.
Legendary Noise Label SKiN GRAFT Adds Shellac, US Maple, UFO or Die (Boredoms) Tracks to Bandcamp
June 5, 2020 Nick Green
Hear a newly remastered track from Boredoms side project UFO or Die, originally recorded in 1994.
Blast Worship: FUCKED
June 4, 2020 Gene Meyer
If you like grindcore, get FUCKED. Seriously, get FUCKED!
Video Premiere: TheNightTimeProject- “Embers”
June 4, 2020 J. Andrew
Decibel is happy to present the new video from TheNightTimeProject, featuring former members of Katatonia and current members of October Tide.
Album Stream: Throne Torcher’s The Mechanics of a Nightmare Builds Bad Dreams
June 4, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to (and watch) the new Throne Torcher EP!
Tales From the Metalnomicon: Gregory Bastianelli’s Heavy Metal Inspired Horror Novels
June 3, 2020 Shawn Macomber
New Hampshire horror novelist Gregory Bastianelli reveals the extremely extreme sonic foundations of his latest blood-soaked supernatural opus “Snowball.”
Interview: Flashback to 1995 with Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf
June 3, 2020 Sean Frasier
Flashback to 1995 with Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf as he discusses Dopes to Infinity, stoner rock, nü-metal, and Martian sex.
Necrot To Release Re-recorded Demo Track “Into the Labyrinth” via the Decibel Flexi Series
May 29, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, June 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from death metal killers Necrot.
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Amorphis’s “Elegy”
May 28, 2020 Neill Jameson
In which Neill Jameson reconsiders Amorphis‘s controversial 1996 prog-metal gem Elegy.
Track Premiere: Die My Will — “Endless Suffering”
May 27, 2020 Shawn Macomber
After nearly a quarter century, Connecticut metallic hardcore underground legends Die My Will blast their way back out of the grave with a remaster of their criminally underrated debut EP.
