Demo:listen: Verbum

August 26, 2016

On this week’s Demo:listen, we slowly march single file toward the purging flames of Chile’s Verbum.

Thoughts From Two Decades of Road Dogging: Retox Offers “Pre-Tour Diary”

August 25, 2016

Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) is no stranger to the road. Dude has been staring at blacktop and lane dividers in the name of playing dive bars and assorted shit holes around the world for ‘round about 20 years

Norma Jean Get Different on Polar Similar

August 25, 2016

Metalcore forward-thinkers Norma Jean always have something new up their sleeve, a trend that continues on Polar Similar.

HammerFall premiere first single “The Sacred Vow” off new album

August 25, 2016

Swedish power metal powerhouse HammerFall are still energized after nearly two decades of making music. 

In Flames to Release New Album ‘Battles’ in November, Debut Track ‘The End’

August 25, 2016

In Flames stand ablaze once more on November 11 with Battles. Hear the first new track NOW! 

Now – Ahem – Streaming: Cemetery Piss return with ‘Astral Souls’

August 24, 2016

Cemetery Piss is here with the first taste of their debut full-length, the thrash/black metal combination “Astral Souls.” 

TRACK PREMIERE: FATALIST RETURNS TO DELIVER AN GLORIOUS “ABERRATION”

August 24, 2016

Fatalist isn’t just back from the grave — they blew up the whole goddamn field on their way out the cemetery gates. Decibel is honored to present an exclusive stream of a insanely blistering track from the Ventura, California death-grinders mind-blowing upcoming album The Bitter End, out 9/23 via FDA Rekotz. (Preorder packages here.)  

VIDEO REVIEW: OTEP’S “ZERO”

August 24, 2016

No matter how good or bad your traditional metal video may have been, one thing it never needed to depend on for success was the lyrics. But then everything changed with the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea of lyric videos.

Video Premiere: Onera – “Cold Hand’s Caress”

August 23, 2016

Onera have released a music video for “Cold Hand’s Caress” off their first album.

Track Premiere: Predatory Light unveils “Laughing Wound”

August 23, 2016

Get in on this exclusive stream of the first song from Predatory Light’s eponymous debut full length.