Best New Noise

Over 25 years after their highwater mark, U.K. death dealer Benediction finally transcend the rubicon once more.

Bristol, U.K. trio Svalbard didn’t merely make a better record than 2018’s solid It’s Hard to Have Hope, but delivered the first truly great album of their career.

Extreme music legends Napalm Death return with the unintended soundtrack to the cruelest summer

Bay area death metallers Necrot return with a sophomore leveler for the ages

Arkansas assbeaters Terminal Nation are responsible for the year’s toughest album.

Texas black metal crew Skeleton will get your bones shaking.

Ramona, CA’s Voidceremony‘s long-awaited first full length album, Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel may be the death metal debut of the year.

Southern California’s sludge godfather’s new record, Dream Squasher, turns the lights out on hope this Friday.

Symphonic black metal horror hounds Carach Angren deliver the ghoul time with Franckensteina Strataemontanus.

Chicago crushers Like Rats don’t look back on Death Monolith.

Detroit Death/doom dealers Temple of the Void rise to greatness on album No. 3.

On with the Twitter follower count, and the new Body Count album, Carnivore.

Godthrymm deliver the doom debut of the year with Reflections.

Sepultura‘s latest, Quadra, is Decibel‘s album of the week.

The dark dungeon music progenitor returns to his “Era 1” form with this reimagining of 1995 classic Ånden som Gjorde Opprør.

Midnight take their sacrilegious heavy metal earworms overground and to the next level.

Swiss eccentrics Schammasch follow up a triple album with their boldest statement yet.

San Antonio quartet continue their evolution from crust punks to underground metal force.

The first new Sacred Reich LP since 1996 might actually be their best album yet.

Emotive hardcore heroes Knocked Loose move the next youthful crew forward.

Northwest death metallers deliver a twisted reeking mass of repulsive decay — and we LOVE it.

The wait for Tomb Mold’s next death metal masterpiece is over before it began

Goodnight Wintermoon – the former Immortal frontman emerges from the cold with album #2.

Former Bolt Thrower and current Benediction members return with their third LP in as many years.

There are no other colors in the extreme music rainbow quite like Pinkish Black.

Instru-metal heroes return with their first full-length LP in six years.

The controversial ex-Gorgoroth frontman returns with what may be his best work to date.

The ever-prolific Trevor William Church returns with the strongest collection of Haunt anthems to date.

Full of Hell push the limits of grind at an accelerated clip.

Possessed’s first new LP in over 30 years is worth the wait for true death metalheads.