Australia
Track Premiere: Spire – “Hymn IV – Puissant”
January 21, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Hear a powerful new track of crushing black metal off the forthcoming sophomore album from Australian anomaly Spire.
Track Premiere: EOS “The Great Ascension”
December 14, 2020 Chris Dick
Australian black metallers EOS emerge from the shadows on new track, “The Great Ascension.” Only black metal is real at Decibel!
Track Premiere: Vyrion – “Avalanche”
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Australian black metal quartet Vyrion merge abominable power and unstoppable force on “Avalanche,” from their impending new album, Nil.
Track Premiere: Resin Tomb – “Prostrated”
July 8, 2020 Sean Frasier
Dissonant death/grind newcomers Resin Tomb crack open the crypt of their upcoming EP with unholy new single “Prostrate.”
Album Premiere: Evoker – ‘Evil Torment’
May 26, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Check out this exclusive premiere of the ripping new EP from Australian death shredders Evoker.
Demo:listen: Hinterkaifeck
May 8, 2020 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen gets bludgeoned and dragged deep into the wastelands of Oz by savage black metal cretins Hinterkaifeck.
Album Premiere: Order Of Orias – ‘Ablaze’
April 27, 2020 Chris Dick
Australia-based black metallers Order Of Orias corrupt harmony on their new album, Ablaze, now streaming in full only at Decibel.
Danny Estrin’s (Voyager) Top 5 Keytarists
March 16, 2020 Chris Dick
Decibel extracts the Top 5 Keytarists from Danny Estrin, frontman/keytarist of Australia-based progressive metallers Voyager. Strap one on…
Video Premiere: Xenobiotic – ‘Part 2: Saphris’
January 21, 2020 Vince Bellino
Xenobiotic are getting techy with it.
Video Premiere: Wardaemonic – ‘Introspection’
January 13, 2020 Vince Bellino
Wardaemonic dish out new black metal.
Demo:listen: Burier
October 4, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen ventures into the deep underground to extract the Australian black metal atrocity Burier.
Album Premiere: Runespell ‘Voice of Opprobrium’
September 2, 2019 Chris Dick
One-man Australian black metal act Runespell premiere new album “Voice of Opprobrium” at Decibel as the wings of fate flutter.
Full Album Stream + Interview: Kommodus – “An Imperial Sun Rises”
July 17, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This is the fourth interview we featured with black metallers Kommodus since their Demo:listen debut in 2017.
Video Premiere: Disentomb – ‘Indecipherable Sermons of Gloom’
July 12, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Check out a video for a song off the brand new album from Australian brutalists Disentomb.
Video Premiere: Depravity – ‘Despondency’
December 4, 2018 Vince Bellino
Check out a new video from death metal crushers Depravity.
Blast Worship: Meth Leppard
October 16, 2018 Gene Meyer
Get familiar with grindcore duo Meth Leppard.
Track Premiere: Ichor – ‘Noble Ichor’
August 27, 2018 Chris Dick
Pre-Nazxul black metallers Ichor resurrect Slavic triumphs on new track “Noble Ichor.”
Full Album Stream: Vomitor “Pestilent Death”
April 16, 2018 Chris Dick
Australia death-thrash rippers Vomitor upchuck new album, Pestilent Death. Play it now! Or die!
Track Premiere: Depravity – ‘Victimizer’
April 5, 2018 Vince Bellino
Stream a new song from Australia’s Depravity.
Track Premiere: Nocturnal Graves ‘Ecdysis, Shedding Weak Flesh’
February 21, 2018 Chris Dick
Australian blackened war machine Nocturnal Graves fires off an unholy bullet with new song “Ecdysis, Shedding Weak Flesh.”
Full Album Stream: Arkheth – “12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew”
February 20, 2018 Vince Bellino
Stream the new album from highly-experimental black metal entity Arkheth now.
Video Premiere: YLVA – ‘Hunting Room’
December 12, 2017 Vince Bellino
A beautifully directed video that uses ideas of light, motion and dance, “Hunting Room” shines in its ability to match the epic scope of YLVA’s music.
Thrashing, Blasting and Grinding: An Interview with King Parrot
September 22, 2017 Vince Bellino
Australian stalwarts King Parrot celebrate the release of their third album, Ugly Produce today. Listen to the record and read a new interview now!
Track Premiere: YLVA – ‘Metadata’
September 13, 2017 Vince Bellino
YLVA bring the thunder from down under.
Video Premiere: Somnium Nox – ‘Transcendental Dysphoria’
June 22, 2017 Vince Bellino
Watch the new video from Australian black metal band Somnium Nox.
Death in the Machine: Miserist full album stream
February 8, 2017 Dutch Pearce
Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.
For Those About To Rot, Here’s a Sewercide Full-Album Stream!
June 13, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Old-school death metal from down under with AC/DC puns: What is not to love about Sewercide?
Botanist’s Otrebor Interviews Pestilential Shadows
December 11, 2014 Etan Rosenbloom
I consider Botanist to be one of modern black metal’s great “projects.” Germinated by a solitary San Franciscan named Otrebor, it’s a band whose music is both utterly bizarre (floraphilic paeans from a misanthropic hermit, rendered only in drums, voice and hammered dulcimer) and emotionally devastating. This is all to say that when Otrebor tells…
King Parrot Fly the North American Skies!
October 17, 2014 Daniel Lake
Two years ago, Aussie weirdos King Parrot’s debut full-length, Bite Your Head Off, unloaded itself on that continent. Candlelight Records then released the album Stateside late last year, and the band of screwy-grindy-thrash-loving dudes have been flapping back and forth between land masses to support their renewed new-act status. We had a chance to ask King…