Five For Friday: May 16, 2025
Get ready to rip and tear with the latest in metal from Full of Hell, Blood Monolith, Desekryptor and more!
Get ready to rip and tear with the latest in metal from Full of Hell, Blood Monolith, Desekryptor and more!
The hyper-prolific drummer turns technological limitation to boundless potential.
Members of Unsane, Swans, Author & Punisher and Ecstatic Vision make a lot of noise as PLQ MRX.
Your Friday is officially on fire with the latest from Cradle of Filth, Imperial Triumphant, SpiritWorld and more!
With 100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal, his new podcast produced by Pantheon, Brian Slagel is distilling decades of metal history into a deep dive on the songs that shaped the genre.
German trad metal stalwarts Brainstorm take us track-by-track through their powerhouse new full length for Reigning Phoenix Music, Plague of Rats.
Ritual Ascension take a twisted approach to death/doom with new single “Womb Exegesis.”
Hear progressive black metal duo Tómarúm deliver the first track from impending new album Beyond Obsidian Euphoria.
Keep spreading that holiday cheer with Haunted Horses’ new video!
The former Decibel columnist and Bluesky’s current top musician just wants to have fun.
Get hyped for Autopsy‘s December 6 performance of Severed Survival at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver with this Hall of Fame induction from 2015 of the death metal classic.
Copies of Decibel Books’ Into Everlasting Fire: The Official Story of Immolation are in stock and shipping NOW!
Celebrate the culmination of spooky season by revisiting Danzig‘s oft overlooked monster, 6:66 Satan’s Child.
California fangers New Skeletal Faces premiere their shimmering, sanguine new track, “Until the Night,” at Decibel. Out November on Peaceville Records.
Philly extreme metal crew Distant Dominion (feat. members of Krieg, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, etc.) debut new song “Solar Flare Tsunami.”
This week’s new releases include the latest heavy hitters from bands like Defacement, Void Witch, Laceration and more!
Prepare for a weekend of riffs, blasts and growls with the latest from Severe Torture, Umbra Vitae, Fractal Generator and more!
Los Angeles dissodeath dealers Teeth explore self-loathing on “Prison,” the first song from upcoming album The Will of Hate.
In the final phase of our epic discussion, the vocalist puts on rose-tinted, 8K glasses when viewing the future of gaming.
Vocalist Tom Englund discusses Theories of Emptiness, the new album from long-running Swedish progressive metal act Evergrey.
Choose life and listen to Adjure.
Stream Deprecipice, the new album from UK sludge/metallic hardcore band Mastiff and read a lengthy interview with guitarist and vocalist James Lee Ross.
The vocalist has decades of experience with fighting games—and thanks to Century Media, you start your training with a custom Hori Fighting Stick α!
The struggle was real for Ludicra on the now Hall of Fame-inducted The Tenant.
A pirate’s riff is the riff for me.
Having triumphed over small minds and naysayers, the max-level guitar wizard’s appearance ushers in a new chapter for Kill Feed.
Hear Australian dissonant DM/grind mongers Resin Tomb destroy your self-esteem on their relentlessly vicious debut, Cerebral Purgatory.
“Stoned Again” is the first single from Max Boogie Overdrive‘s upcoming full-length debut of the same name. It’s set for release on CD and digitally via Future Primitive Recordings on March 29.
The guitarist, drummer and bassist of the New England quartet decide to press A to interact with Decibel’s nerdiest column.
And thus we come to the last standard edition of Five For Friday for 2023. The rest of the month will be dedicated to death metal and black metal retrospectives, so look out for that!