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!

We have only 150 copies available of Hulder‘s new LP, Verses in Oath, on exclusive Brown inside of Kelly Green vinyl. Don’t blow it.

Fans of blazing fast grindcore with an actual old school-death metal feel need to board the Nak’ay train to hell immediately.

Hear Helsinki quartet Soul Incursion shake off the winter blues with some deathtastic thrash on their new Eternal Darkness EP.

Check out a stream of the new album by Canadian Wacken Battle winners Strigampire!

Denver noise crew Quits deliver a less than bucolic rendering of their hometown.

Atmospheric black metal project Spectral Lore reveal new 20-minute epic from forthcoming full length IV.

Chicago melodic death metal duo Cariosus confront the darkness on their (inter)stellar new single, “Saturn Returns.”

No question Chicago crossover crushers Whut? have a beef with authority in new video for “C.A.P.S.”

Hear and acquire this flexi disc single from Vastum featuring an exclusive new song, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!