Best New Noise
Album Review: Deeds of Flesh – ‘Nucleus’
January 12, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
The legacy of the late Erik Lindmark is at the center of the new Deeds of Flesh LP, Nucleus.
Album Review: Frozen Soul – ‘Crypt of Ice’
January 7, 2021 Joseph Schafer
Fort Worth’s Frozen Soul deliver a stone cold case of death metal on their debut LP Crypt of Ice.
Album Review: Dark Tranquillity – ‘Moment’
November 16, 2020 Chris Dick
Melodic Swedish death metal heroes Dark Tranquillity return with their first new studio LP in four years.
Album Review: Benediction – ‘Scriptures’
October 13, 2020 Chris Dick
Over 25 years after their highwater mark, U.K. death dealer Benediction finally transcend the rubicon once more.
Album Review: Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
September 21, 2020 Shawn Macomber
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.
Album Review: Napalm Death – ‘Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism’
September 14, 2020 Justin Norton
Extreme music legends Napalm Death return with the unintended soundtrack to the cruelest summer
Album Review: Necrot – ‘Mortal’
August 24, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Bay area death metallers Necrot return with a sophomore leveler for the ages
Album Review: Terminal Nation
August 4, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Arkansas assbeaters Terminal Nation are responsible for the year’s toughest album.
Album Review: Skeleton – ‘Skeleton’
July 6, 2020 Raoul Hernandez
Texas black metal crew Skeleton will get your bones shaking.
Album Review: Voidceremony – ‘Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel’
June 29, 2020 Dutch Pearce
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.
Album Review: -(16)- – ‘Dream Squasher’
June 3, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Southern California’s sludge godfather’s new record, Dream Squasher, turns the lights out on hope this Friday.
Album Review: Carach Angren – ‘Franckensteina Strataemontanus’
May 20, 2020 Chris Dick
Symphonic black metal horror hounds Carach Angren deliver the ghoul time with Franckensteina Strataemontanus.
Album Review: Like Rats – ‘Death Monolith’
April 1, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Chicago crushers Like Rats don’t look back on Death Monolith.
Album Review: Temple of Void – ‘The World That Was’
March 23, 2020 Justin Norton
Detroit Death/doom dealers Temple of the Void rise to greatness on album No. 3.
Album Review: Body Count – ‘Carnivore’
March 5, 2020 Decibel Magazine
On with the Twitter follower count, and the new Body Count album, Carnivore.
Album Review: Godthrymm – ‘Reflections’
February 10, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Godthrymm deliver the doom debut of the year with Reflections.
Album Review: Sepultura – ‘Quadra’
January 28, 2020 Adrien Begrand
Sepultura‘s latest, Quadra, is Decibel‘s album of the week.
Album Review: Mortiis – ‘Spirit of Rebellion’
January 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
The dark dungeon music progenitor returns to his “Era 1” form with this reimagining of 1995 classic Ånden som Gjorde Opprør.
Album Review: Midnight – ‘Rebirth by Blasphemy’
January 14, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Midnight take their sacrilegious heavy metal earworms overground and to the next level.
Album Review: Schammasch – ‘Hearts of No Light’
November 8, 2019 Chris Dick
Swiss eccentrics Schammasch follow up a triple album with their boldest statement yet.
Album Review: Haunter – ‘Sacramental Death Qualia’
September 5, 2019 Jon Rosenthal
San Antonio quartet continue their evolution from crust punks to underground metal force.
Album Review: Sacred Reich – ‘Awakening’
August 23, 2019 Greg Pratt
The first new Sacred Reich LP since 1996 might actually be their best album yet.
Album Review: Knocked Loose – ‘A Different Shade of Blue’
August 20, 2019 Decibel Magazine
Emotive hardcore heroes Knocked Loose move the next youthful crew forward.
Album Review: Cerebral Rot – ‘Odious Decent Into Decay’
August 5, 2019 Forrest Pitts
Northwest death metallers deliver a twisted reeking mass of repulsive decay — and we LOVE it.
Album Review: Tomb Mold – ‘Planetary Clairvoyance’
July 25, 2019 Sean Frasier
The wait for Tomb Mold’s next death metal masterpiece is over before it began
Album Review: Abbath – ‘Outstrider’
July 5, 2019 Adrien Begrand
Goodnight Wintermoon – the former Immortal frontman emerges from the cold with album #2.
Album Review: Memoriam – ‘Requiem for Mankind’
June 19, 2019 Forrest Pitts
Former Bolt Thrower and current Benediction members return with their third LP in as many years.
Album Review: Pinkish Black – ‘Concept Unification’
June 13, 2019 Jeff Treppel
There are no other colors in the extreme music rainbow quite like Pinkish Black.
Album Review: Pelican – ‘Nighttime Stories’
June 3, 2019 Jeff Treppel
Instru-metal heroes return with their first full-length LP in six years.
Album Review: Gaahls WYRD – ‘GastiR – Ghosts Invited’
May 29, 2019 Chris Dick
The controversial ex-Gorgoroth frontman returns with what may be his best work to date.