You have to give it to any band that has managed to play its first shows outside of its home country on the other side of the planet.

This year, Tuomas Saukkonen and Wolfheart return on Tyhjyys, to be released on March 3rd through Spinefarm Records.  Today we bring you the fourth track from the new record, called “The Flood.”

Crystal Fairy‘s lineup includes Buzz Obsorne and Dale Crover (The Melvins), Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (At the Drive-In, ex-The Mars Volta) and Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes). Find out more about the band before their self-titled album drops. 

German one-man black metal assault Front Beast goes full Profanatica with “Rape the Corpse of Christ,” from their third full length, Third Scourge from Darkness.

Finnish death metal heroes Demilich are the exclusive “bonus track” Hall of Fame in the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II book.

Listen to a track from Tight Fright’s pending debut Hotel Metal. 

“We’re making sludge through a death metal lens,” Moros drummer Jason Dost tells Decibel. “I can’t say we are a death metal band but the horror and savageness of that early death metal sound influences what we do for sure.” 

Happily, that proves to be a pretty goddamn spot-on self-assessment as one jams this seriously intense, head-turning Moros split with Black Urn  — a straight-up enigmatic-yet-primal nightmare translated into assaultive sound waves.

Bleak, noisy doom is what to expect from Unearthly Trance‘s latest single, “Scythe.”

Californian spacelords Lecherous Gaze blast their cosmic punk ‘n’ roll from 365,000,000 miles away on “Thing Within.”

If simply having Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous all on one bill wasn’t enough to excite you so much your reproductive organs explode, this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour will, once again, have some sick regional openers on select dates as well. Here is the complete lists of first kills!