Track Premiere

Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”

New Jersey tech-death dealers Cognitive unveil new song “To Feed the Worms.”

Malison are reborn on their sophomore album, Death’s Embrace.

In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.

According to Wormwitch: “this song is about creating as you speak; manifesting reality as you traverse the challenges of life.”

Hear Ontario chamber folk ensemble Musk Ox unveil their first new music in seven years.

Burial in the Sky show off their technical skills with “Anatomy of Us.”

Wanderer go all out on short-and-sweet new track, “Mind Leash.”

Mental Cavity unveil “The Portal,” a crusty death metal selection from their new album.

Check out an advance track from the debut full-length by NJ black metallers Putrascension!

Former Wolvhammer and Across Tundras drummer Heath Rave reveals first new music in five years in the guise of post-punk-inspired Lotus Thrones

Burning Tongue offers up a blackened crust soundtrack to suburban madness on new track “Cult-De-Sac.”

The band’s new song, “Carnage Atrocity,” is a “a neck-snapping orgy of violence that will sear itself upon the mind.”

While you listen, read our Q&A with band co-founder/drummer Robert Garven about handling pandemic setbacks, how the EP came together, and what’s next for this legendary band. 

71TonMan spread their message through amp-shaking doom.

Hear Slovenian progressive death metal travelers Teleport remerge as Siderean.

Melodic death metal outfit Meridian Dawn pay tribute to late Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho with a cover of the band’s “Every Time I Die.”

Check out the otherworldly video from the otherworldly North Carolina sci-fi obsessed freaks Xael.

Philadelphia’s Heavy Temple — at long last — makes their triumphant full-length debut this year. If their future is anything like their newest single, “A Desert Through the Trees,” the sky isn’t even the limit for what’s to come.

Old-school grind crew Schismopathic have a message for politicians and those who vote for them.

“We play traditional black metal — full stop. We wrote 66 Black Wings under the shroud of the pandemic, fueled by blasphemy and booze.”

Watch the new video for “Emperor,” from Swedish prog-metal heroes Eastern High, off their upcoming new album, Halo.

Watch a new video from hardcore crushers Eternal Struggle.

The latest soot-encased blast from Our Place of Worship is Silence is anything but tranquil or hushed.

British progressive death metal outfit Luna’s Call dazzle on new lyric video, “Merced’s Footsteps.” Viewable now only at Decibel!

Hear ex-Massacre and current Obituary and the Absence members fly the blood-soaked flag of old-death metal in Inhuman Condition.

Hear a new song from Puerto Rican death dealers Necronemesis, featuring a guest appearance by Death and Mantas guitarist Rick Rozz.

Unhinged Irish black/death fiends Coscradh stoke the burning anticipation for their debut full-length with this new 7” EP. Hear both hellish tracks in full right now.

Hear the melodic black/death of Aduanten‘s debut four-track EP, Sullen Cadence and read an in-depth interview with the McCloskey brothers at the heart of it.

If you are a fan of any era of Daughters, the Locust or Saetia, it’s time to tune into the powerviolence/screamo/shoegaze hybrid of Waternoose.