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Track Premiere: Same Gods — “In Circles”

July 1, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One-man grind machine Putrid Parrot doesn’t cry fowl.

1995: The Year in Not-So-Metal Heaviness

June 17, 2020

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hear a newly remastered track from Boredoms side project UFO or Die, originally recorded in 1994.

Blast Worship: FUCKED

June 4, 2020

If you like grindcore, get FUCKED. Seriously, get FUCKED!

Video Premiere: TheNightTimeProject- “Embers”

June 4, 2020

Decibel is happy to present the new video from TheNightTimeProject, featuring former members of Katatonia and current members of October Tide.

Tales From the Metalnomicon: Gregory Bastianelli’s Heavy Metal Inspired Horror Novels

June 3, 2020

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

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

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

In which Neill Jameson reconsiders Amorphis‘s controversial 1996 prog-metal gem Elegy.

Track Premiere: Die My Will — “Endless Suffering”

May 27, 2020

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.