We asked keyboard player Aleksi Munter some questions about this stage in the band’s career, so stick around for what he had to say.  Also, be sure to check out the two videos Swallow the Sun have given us so far.

Quebec City progressive death metallers Deviant Process are dropping first single “Unconscious” in advance of their debut full-length Paroxysm.

Lots of Quebec-based death metal premiering on ye olde Deciblog the last couple days: first Spirit of Rebellion, then Cryptopsy, now four-piece Deviant Process! The PRC Music outfit brings it in the style of dB-approved forebears Beyond Creation, Augury and Obscura, and “Unconscious” is the first single from debut full-length, Paroxysm.

Anareta

Everyone can hear them scream: 

Horrendous bring their otherworldly death metal to a new star system

dB Rating: 10/10

Scott Conner gave convention the middle finger on Friday night by going acoustic — and semi-country — at the first-ever Xasthur show. 

It makes all the sense in the (under)world that a band called Satan’s Satyrs would title their new album Don’t Deliver Us

Melodeath icons At the Gates have just announced dates for their 2016 North American Tour, with support from Decapitated, the Haunted and Harms Way. This is obviously a must-see, and we’re offering an exclusive opportunity to win tickets now!

Instrumental blackened doom duo Canyon of the Skull are primed to drop their long overdue self-titled debut.

Progressive death metal supergroup Contrarian have no shortage of talented players — Nile drummer George Kollias and Mithras shredder Leon Macey among them — and those skills are well-applied in covering the legendary Death’s “Nothing Is Everything.”

** Nostalgic types need nourishment. Our days can’t always be filled with blastbeats, dirty riffs, and socio-politico lyrics. We need to feel as if we’re on another planet, in another world, some place not where we are now. To start the quest to spaces unknown, Decibel has compiled five killer atmospheric death metal songs to take you right into the weekend. Now, there’s a fine line between atmospheric death and atmospheric doom/death (or death/doom), but we’re not terribly interested in delineating such a line today. We’re more interesting in the journey itself, the way these songs transport back to times that probably never happened, but they’re as real as today.