For the better part of the ’90s, Enslaved‘s debut album, Vikingligr Veldi, was considered (along with Frost, of course) a quintessential piece in any collection worth its weight in plastic and cardboard. Available only on CD (first without a barcode, then with) on Deathlike Silence Productions (then on Voices of Wonder), the pivotal non-black metal full-length transported listeners to fjords, snow-capped mountains, dense Nordic forests, and the worship of mythical gods.

The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Synarchy in the EU
dB rating: 8/10

The man we put in charge of running the Decibel Merch booth at the Superbowl. 

Politics aside, Oblivion looms close, and when the world burns, Hellmouth will say “We told you so.”

Egonaut has a new singer and new tunes. 

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Asheville’s own Burial Beer Co.

Extreme metal has the unique ability to smash our romantic illusions about life and the world. It’s time to apply that same cold stoicism to executive power, no matter who’s President.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we fall through a dripping vortex to rise upon the very nadir where dwells Finland’s Scourge Lair.

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Portuguese death metal crew The Ominous Circle are a mysterious bunch, so we caught up with them just before their debut LP drops to try to make some sense out of it all.