Streaming
Track Premiere: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – “The White of the Eyes”
March 4, 2021 Bradley Zorgdrager
New Zealand tech death band Blindfolded and Led to the Woods keep their music dizzying, disorienting and ultimately, violent.
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.”
Full Album Stream: Thronehammer – Incantation Rites
March 3, 2021 Dutch Pearce
European doomsayers Thronehammer reveal their sophomore leviathan, Incantation Rites, streaming in full right here.
Celestial Season Premiere New Track, “Black Water Mirrors,” via the Decibel Flexi Series
March 3, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Hear and acquire this Celestial Season flexi disc single, featuring a brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Full Album Stream: KOLDOVSTVO Ni Tsarya, Ni Boga
March 2, 2021 Cody Davis
For the enigmatic sect, Koldovstvo, it’s bewitching black magic.
Full Album Stream: Terror – “Trapped in a World”
March 2, 2021 Emily Bellino
LA hardcore institution Terror link with original guitarist Todd Jones (Nails) to re-record classic songs from their first two LPs, One with the Underdogs and Always the Hard Way.
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.
Full Album Stream: Nixil – “All Knots Untied”
March 1, 2021 J. Andrew
Nixil‘s new album is “a poetic attempt to relate to the unrelatable, a documentation of personal processes of initiation …”
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.
Listen: Body Void – ‘Wound’
March 1, 2021 Emily Bellino
Soul-crushing drone-doom unit Body Void return with demoralizing new single, “Wound.”
Track Premiere: Spellforger – “Lord of Possession”
March 1, 2021 Chris Dick
Indonesian thrashers Spellforger murder the front row on new song “Lord of Possession”. Streaming faster and louder only at Decibel!
Split Premiere: Mausoleum and Anatomia – “Nyctophilia”
February 25, 2021 J. Andrew
“Disgustingly heavy, abysmal horror death-doom madness by two veterans!” New split from Mausoleum and Anatomia streaming now!
Watch Members of Napalm Death, Voivod, Municipal Waste, Child Bite & Yakuza Cover Cardiacs
February 25, 2021 Daniel Lake
Dan “Chewy” Mongrain, Dave Witte, Shane Embury, Bruce Lamont, Christian Doble and a host of other metal and punk luminaries pay tribute to the Cardiacs‘ “Tarred and Feathered” with an assist from bassist Jim Smith!
Video Premiere: EYES – Live at the Royal Danish Academy of Music
February 24, 2021 Emily Bellino
EYES debut a three-song live session at the legendary Royal Danish Academy of Music.
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.
Track Premiere: Necropanther – ‘Benthic Storms’
February 23, 2021 Emily Bellino
This cat has claws! Stream “Benthic Storms,” the latest from Colorado’s Necropanther.
EP Premiere: Sandstorm – Desert Warrior
February 23, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Leathery and vintage heavy metal Canadians Sandstorm grant an early stream of their forthcoming far-out rocker, Desert Warrior.
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!”
Track Premiere: Les Chants du Hasard – ‘Chant III: Le Reflet’
February 22, 2021 Emily Bellino
Les Chants du Hasard marry black metal and opera.
Full Album Premiere: Significant Point ‘Into the Storm’
February 22, 2021 Chris Dick
Decibel and Japanese heavy metallers Significant Point team up to fight Kaiju using their new album, Into the Storm, as the soundtrack.
Track Premiere: Age of Woe – “Patriarch”
February 19, 2021 Cody Davis
Watch death/doom crushers Age of Woe deliver a crusty vision of humanity’s impending future in the new video for “Patriarch.”
Video Premiere: Purity – “Serpentine”
February 18, 2021 Bradley Zorgdrager
The Las Vegas collective Purity offer anything but in their hybrid of late ’90s sounds.
Video Premiere: Domkraft – ‘Dawn of Man’
February 17, 2021 Jeff Treppel
Prepare to enter the mind-melting, hypnotic world of Domkraft via their new video for “Dawn of Man.”
Track Premiere: Kill Division – ‘Cultists’
February 16, 2021 Emily Bellino
Current and former members of Megadeth, Soilwork, Gruesome, Malevolent Creation and Venom Inc. join forces in new grind unit Kill Division.
EP Premiere: Vøidwomb – Altars of Cosmic Devotion
February 16, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Vøidwomb, a new quintet from Portugal, are here to absolutely crush your preconceived notions about what the black/death subgenre has to offer.
Full Album Stream: Paranorm- “Empyrean”
February 15, 2021 J. Andrew
Decibel is pleased to present, for the thrashing-mad among us, an exclusive stream of the debut album from Sweden’s Paranorm.
Track Premiere: Firstborne – ‘Mourning Star’
February 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
Chris Adler’s Firstborne watches the “Mourning Star.”
Video Premiere: Machinist! – ‘Bask in the White Light’
February 12, 2021 Emily Bellino
Machinist! debut the first video from their upcoming split with Dead Hand.
Paysage d’Hiver Announces New Album, Releases “Bluet”
February 11, 2021 J. Andrew
Wintherr is ready to unleash another storm of cold black metal brilliance! Check out “Bluet” from Paysage d’Hiver‘s upcoming album.
Track Premiere: Maudiir Offers Blackened Thrashing D-Beat with a Proggy Twist
February 11, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Get to know, Maudiir, the one-man project helmed by Montréaller Frédéric “F.” Bergeron.