Track Premiere: Lucifuge – “Black Light of the Evening Star”
April 5, 2021 Chris Dick
German blackened thrashers Lucifuge love like a reptile on new track, “Black Light of the Evening Star”. Streaming only at Decibel!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Double Blizzard
April 2, 2021 Nick Green
Winter might be over but Tröegs’ beastly double IPA Double Blizzard is here to stay.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo Pecks on Cannibal Corpse, Bewitcher and Cattera
April 2, 2021 Blake Harrison
Our cooped up correspondent pecks on some legendary death metallers, speed metal upstarts, and a special cat-fronted outfit this week.
Full Album Stream: Dead Neanderthals – “Rat Licker”
April 2, 2021 Emily Bellino
Dead Neanderthals blow off last year’s negative energy on insane free-jazz EP Rat Licker.
Demo Premiere: Morbid Sphere – Demo II
April 2, 2021 Dutch Pearce
A new entity grown to staggering proportions in the New York City underground, Morbid Sphere emerges bearing their second demo of warped and crushing black death hostility.
Album Stream: Impure – ‘The Carrion Feast’
April 2, 2021 Sean Frasier
Blackened death duo Impure summon hellfire with their sinister 7″ release of “The Carrion Feast” and “Into Cataclysm.”
Full Album Stream: Bones of the Earth – “II. Eternal Meditations of a Deathless Crown”
April 1, 2021 J. Andrew
“We’re just three dudes with a deep love for heavy metal and sci fi/medieval fantasy and Bones of the Earth is our way of combining the two.”
Writing Ways to Misery: Authors Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm Discuss Finnish Death Metal Book
April 1, 2021 Greg Pratt
Talking Finnish death metal with Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm, authors of Decibel Books’ Rotting Ways to Misery.
Track Premiere: Dead Witches – “D.I.E. (Dragged Into Emptiness)”
April 1, 2021 Cody Davis
Dead Witches — the brainchild of former Electric Wizard drummer Mark Greening — brings towering, fuzzed riffs and glacially-paced occult doom.
Track by Track: Feculent – ‘The Grotesque Arena’
March 31, 2021 Sean Frasier
Australian death metal newcomers Feculent share a track by track breakdown of their filthy debut EP, The Grotesque Arena.