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Texas brutal death dealers Desecrate the Faith return with their sophomore effort, Unholy Infestation, now streaming in full!

Formed in Krakow, Poland in 2010, Medico Peste aren’t your typical run of the mill black metal offering. Neither Scandinavian, Germanic, French, or British, the Poles have tapped into a sound that’s altogether alien and uninviting. Like the darkest dark.

Get right with GOD in this week’s Demo: Listen. 

There have been a handful of occasions when the beast rises out of the Lonestar State. From Absu and Divine Eve to Rigor Mortis and Devastation, the great state of Texas has produced some of the genre’s most intense acts. That tradition carries on with Laredo-based Venereal Baptism. Certainly, with a name like Venereal Baptism, there are only a few paths on which to tread. Brutal death metal, goregrind (sadly, this is still a thing), and black metal. Well, out of Laredo’s diseased womb Venereal Baptism is delivered to the iniquitous world of black metal.

Remarkable things are afoot over at the YouTube page of Magic Bullet Records — one of the best, most adventurous independent labels currently in existence, led by the incomparable artist/musician/leader Brent Eyestone whose efforts we’ve previously covered here, here, here, and here — where a series of amazing live performances captured on videotape during various revolutionary heavy music moments of the nineties are now being digitized and posted for posterity.

Come hear the new black metal burner from Inferno while it’s hot!

It doesn’t take long to say a lot. Case in point is the song “Under the Wave Blanket” by the Austinites Drip-Fed, who pack plenty of pain and hope into 2 1/2 minutes. Though it helps that the music itself is the hooky, hulking kind of punk hardcore that makes you listen over and over until you develop welts.

Wear Your Wounds unveil the music video for their eponymously-titled song from their first full-length release.

Listen to a track from Tight Fright’s pending debut Hotel Metal. 

Cyborg Octopus confirm that they are indeed people and not actually cyborg octopi with guitars. 

Dead Conspiracy premiere a new music video for “Paralyzed With Terror” to go with their self-titled album, which they independently released in November.

The only Seinfeld award-esc analysis of an NFL Season you’ll ever see anywhere, ever. Still not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. 

Rich Davis recently released a new video for his song “Faceless.” We caught up with him to talk about the future of his solo project. 

Dust Moth premiere a new video and announce a tour with He Whose Ox Is Gored. 

The man we put in charge of running the Decibel Merch booth at the Superbowl. 

Portuguese death metal crew The Ominous Circle are a mysterious bunch, so we caught up with them just before their debut LP drops to try to make some sense out of it all.

The man with one less DUI than Joey Porter, for now.

In just 163 pages Nathan Carson’s new novella Starr Creek brings together hesher teens, D&D-obsessed 11 year-olds, bikers, cult members, hillbillies, a crazy demonic goat, a hell of a lot of drugs, and a big monster in a crazed collision of Lovecraftian weirdness and, best of all, macabre fun.

We recently inducted Entombed’s classic second album into our Hall of Fame; let’s take a few minutes to examine it closely one more time, ranking each song from worst to best.

I am not a luddite. Far from it. But there are some things I miss in this digital age. One of those is combing through a record layout to read the list of bands that are thanked. 

The last time Fides Inversa released a full-length (2014’s Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans) Ebola was making its way across West Africa, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared off the Gulf of Thailand, ISIL begins its terror campaign across northern Iraq, and Pope Paul VI is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

The only guy in the world who called Rousey losing to Nunez, besides Rousey, her trainers, and everyone with a brain. 

“The theme of ‘Baklengs mot Intet’ describes the inner battle, the bottomless despair and endless futility experienced by a walker of the Way.”

Our latest Primitive Origins looks at the 1972 proto-metal of California’s Sudden Death.

Respected metal culture chronicler, incisive critic, longtime Decibel contributor, and all-around exemplary human being D. Shawn Bosler was involved in a horrific car accident just outside San Diego over the holidays, suffering “numerous and serious injuries, requiring several complicated surgeries.”

What do the phrase “break the chains,” Kurt Ballou’s production jobs, and ways to die all have in common? They’ve all been themes for Decibel‘s Apple Music playlists, of course.

The gods are pleased — Amon Amarth has completed an extensive European tour in support of their record Jomsviking. Check out this documentary through “Anchors to Asphalt” to learn about extensive touring, their live show and sacrifices for the gods. 

We catch up with Singapore’s Rudra to talk about the lyrical and musical approaches of their new album, Enemy of Duality.

Go behind the scenes in this Killswitch Engage documentary. 

X-Mas off, cuz I have to yell at my family, while watching Football, and yelling at Football.