Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best death metal of 2023, including Dying Fetus, Plague Bearer, Obituary and more!

Maine melodic black metal duo Obsidian Tongue bring the cold, dark rock on new single “The Stone Heart.”

If you’ve got one minute and 18 seconds, you’ve got the time for noisemongers Dry Socket to clean out your earholes.

For fans of NYC’s Riot, this new series will give the band the chance to get the recognition and credit they deserve.

The guitarist, drummer and bassist of the New England quartet decide to press A to interact with Decibel’s nerdiest column.

Blackened symphonic solo project Exiled Hope share their next chapter of dark fantasy opera with the new single “Over For You.”

Hear new jack death metal quintet Iron Front offer up some old-school slam on new track, “Slam of ’87.”

Bug out with CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP‘s batch of 127 new songs in five minutes.

And thus we come to the last standard edition of Five For Friday for 2023. The rest of the month will be dedicated to death metal and black metal retrospectives, so look out for that!