This year, French label Les Acteurs de L’Ombre launched Emanations, a division meant to spotlight emerging local talent with limited cassette and CD releases, and several interesting recordings have surfaced as a result.

The NFL’s Leading Airing of Grievances Vehicle.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who think Scorpions only really put out a couple hits and those who are shocked and appalled by the first people.

This Decibel scribe has always fallen horned-head-over-cloven-heels for the frozen-horror lullabies crafted under the Lustre moniker.  In about three weeks, Nachtzeit will release an EP of self-proclaimed regressive black metal that strips any conceit of beauty or complexity from his other work and rages bleakly in the northern darkness.

Polemic
Only death is real
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From the city that brought you BTBAM and Corrosion of Confirmity, a hard shot of blackened thrash.

The new video from the mysterious OSDM supergroup has no shortage of sickles, hoods and general madness.

Unfortunately, we haven’t found an inverted cross tree topper. Yet. 

This year’s story is all but written. It’s time to focus on the Top 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2016. Decibel has you covered with exclusive previews of next year’s extremely extremest, with Amon Amarth, Nails and Darkthrone as the tip of the frostbitten iceberg.

Cello + voice Canadian duo bring the holiday melancholia in spades.