Two out of three records reviewed this week give our bird’s feathered ass a good tail-kicking.

Today’s black metal haunting comes courtesy of Zuriaake, a band excelling at both innovation and reverence for the second-wave sound.

Over 100 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $3.00 each! Many of them down to the last copies. Hurry, sale ends Sunday at midnight EST.

Urns add some weird and epic stoner smog to the Pittsburgh atmosphere. Check out the exclusive stream of their self-titled debut before the record drops tomorrow.

Witness the beast with seven heads by listening to this new Cloud Rat banger.

Snow Burial “Sever the Bloodline” with a cut from their upcoming album, Ostrava.

Re-examining how Randy Holden foreshadowed Eyehategod’s down and dirty sludge in 1969 on Population II.

Check out the latest single from Norwegian death metallers Blood Red Throne‘s most old-school release since 2003’s landmark Affiliated With the Suffering.

We resurrect a previously unreleased Decibel trend piece from 2015 on the French Noise Rock scene.

Thirty years in Strung Out remains king of the metal-tinged punk hardcore mountain with its ninth full-length.