Full Album Stream: Touching the Bottom of the Sea and the Top of the Sky with Year of No Light’s Consolamentum
July 1, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take a deep dive into the new album by post-metal monsters Year of No Light!
Demo Stream: Ceres – ‘Tyrants Rise’
June 30, 2021 Jon Rosenthal
On their debut cassette, new U.S. power metal duo Ceres capitalizes on classic, “true” metal’s catchy and infectious nature.
How Punk Thrashers Fucked and Bound Found its Filth, Switched Up Monikers, & Created an “Eternal” Sophomore Album
June 30, 2021 Shawn Macomber
With a (new) name like Filth is Eternal you just know the latest from these Seattle levelers has to be brutal.
Album Premiere: Vampirska and Wampyric Rites – ‘The Drowning Void’
June 30, 2021 Sean Frasier
Black metal nightbeasts Vampirska and Wampyric Rites join forces to create the sanguinary split LP, The Drowning Void.
Track Premiere: Band of Bastards – ‘Division’
June 29, 2021 Emily Bellino
Band of Bastards speak on the “Division” they see in the world today.
Track Premiere: Fetid Zombie – “Beyond Andromeda”
June 29, 2021 Brad Sanders
Legendary underground death metal illustrator Mark Riddick returns unleashes his own death metal apocalypse via a new Fetid Zombie track.
Blast Worship: Gastropod
June 29, 2021 Gene Meyer
Midwest grindcore crew Gastropod marry a caveman aesthetic with a progressive approach to performance.
Album Review: Withered – ‘Verloren’
June 28, 2021 Sean Frasier
We welcome back black/death/existential pain machine Withered with their first new album in five years.
Health Awaits: Spirit Adrift’s Nate Garrett on Conquering Alcoholism Through Physical Fitness
June 28, 2021 Cosmo Lee
In the latest installment of Health Awaits, a new >Decibel fitness column, Nate Garrett of trad metal faves Spirit Adrift reveals how his iron paved his path to sobriety
Video Premiere: Randy M. Salo & Madder Mortem Dive Deep On Documentary ‘Howl of the Underdogs’
June 28, 2021 Chris Dick
Filmmaker Randy M. Salo deep dives into Norwegian progressive metal outfit Madder Mortem in documentary Howl of the Underdogs.