Asphyx

Eric Daniels and Twan van Geel of Soulburn fame open the flood gates to a new era on Noa’s D’ark. Hail Dutch death metal!

This week’s book of new heavy music contains the latest brutal chapters from Asphyx, Nervosa, Coffins and more!

Our cooped up correspondent has kind pecks for classic death and heavy metal and new thrash heroes in his latest new release preview.

Dutch underground metal scene documentary METAAL takes flight on Indiegogo. Watch the trailer premiere only at Decibel!

Death-doom power trio Beast of Revelation, featuring Bob Bagchus, A.J. van Drenth and John McEntee, stream their debut full-length, The Ancient Ritual of Death here.

Asphyx take their place in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Expect Hall of Fame entries from Asphyx, Watain and Suffocation, exclusive flexi tracks from Pig Destroyer, Spirit Adrift and Withered, and our soon-to-be unveiled Top 40 Albums of 2018 list.

Get out of print At the Gates, Khemmis, Asphyx, The Black Dahlia Murder and Horrendous flexis FREE with this special subscription offer through THIS WEEKEND ONLY!

Get out of print At the Gates, Khemmis, Asphyx, The Black Dahlia Murder and Horrendous flexis FREE with this special (limited) subscription offer!

Get rare flexis from Carcass, Neurosis, Midnight, 1349 and Asphyx with the special Decibel “bonus flexi” offer for a LIMITED TIME ONLY!

Embrace the death on the rack the brutal way on wings of inferno as… oh you get where we’re going with this. 

In this month’s issue of Decibel, we bring you a flexi so close to our hearts that it’s practically a third ventricle.  We got Asphyx mouthpiece Martin Van Drunen to talk about his relationship to the magazine and its editor, as well as the way the band put together our most recent edition of the flexi series.

Hear the first new Asphyx song in four years, which also happens to be the new official Decibel theme song.

Advance copies of the new Decibel, featuring our first-ever Gorguts cover story, are now available in the Decibel webstore. 

The first new Asphyx song in four years is a tribute to your favorite metal magazine… which you’ll need to subscribe to if you want this exclusive flexi disc. 

There are few guitarists on the planet that get the shredder’s studio worked up as much as former Asphyx and current Grand Supreme Blood Court guitarist Eric Daniels. He writes the riffs that awaken your inner caveman. Eric was kind enough to drop in from across the pond and tell us how he started playing…

The phrases “Van Drunen” and “side project” will cause more than a little excitement in these parts. The death metal frontman handled vocals on two prestigious entries in Decibel’s Top 100 Death Metal Albums (available here). He also toured with the mighty Bolt Thrower and fronts war-themed badasses Hail Of Bullets. The dude is like…

What is the Deathhammer? Bob Bagchus: Deathhammer represents the book of death metal. Our view on real death metal. It’s like the rules of what real death metal was supposed to be. Death metal was supposed to be hard, raw, dirty, creepy, dark and brutal to the bone. Music to be scared of. Just listen…

I covered Asphyx in Decibel #89 [Municipal Waste cover] and from that feature, I quickly realized that across Asphyx’s impressive, if somewhat under sung, discography, the Dutch outfit has the word ‘death’ in nearly half of its discography; 3 out of 8, to be more precise. Well, that fact wasn’t lost on drummer/songwriter Bob Bagchus,…