Brooklyn

Video Premiere: Castle Rat – “Cry For Me”

February 13, 2024

NYC psych doom cult Castle Rat take us to another realm where the Rat Queen battles the Rat Reaperess in new video for “Cry For Me.”

Track Premiere: Trace Amount – “Processed Violence (in 480P)”

October 5, 2020

Connect with the first track from Endless Render, the forthcoming EP from Brooklyn industrial noisemaker Trace Amount featuring drums performed by The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Billy Rymer.

Premiere: Trace Amount – “Obsessive Diagnosis” b/w “A Product of Metaphysical Existence”

May 1, 2020

Brooklyn’s underground industrial noise attack Trace Amount return with two new tracks of suffocating and compulsive grime.

Video Premiere: Trace Amount – “Fake Figures in the Sacred Scriptures”

March 17, 2020

Get freaked out in isolation by this eerily prescient music video from Brooklyn-based harsh noise/industrial producer Trace Amount.

Full EP Premiere: Tombs – ‘Monarchy of Shadows’

February 27, 2020

Brooklyn-based blackened destroyers Tombs reveal their new EP, Monarchy of Shadows.

Track Premiere: Fliege – “The Invisible Seam”

December 2, 2019

Jam this preview track from the forthcoming debut album from riff-driven Brooklyn-based industrial/black/heavy metal cinephiles Fliege.

Blast Worship: Snitchgrinder

November 19, 2019

Don’t keep it a secret — blasting Brooklyn duo Snitchgrinder totally rule.

Track Premiere: Skryptor – ‘Raga’

March 19, 2019

Skryptor combine noise rock skronk with prog weirdness on “Raga.”

Full Album Stream: Arsantiqva – “Scavengers”

November 9, 2018

Arsantiqva join a slew of other stellar Brooklyn black metal bands with the release of Scavengers.

Interview: Woe at Shadow Woods Metal Festival

October 11, 2017

Brooklyn-based USBM outfit Woe discuss their latest album, Hope Attrition, the songwriting process and playing at Shadow Woods Metal Fest in a new interview.

Candiria Release Live Video, Announce East & West Coast Tour Dates

December 15, 2016

Happy Hump Day, Candiria fans! The band has dropped a new live video for “Wandering Light” and announced both East and West Coast runs in 2017. 

WAKE UP & DESTROY: Kosmodemonic Talk Monsters and Dark Psychedelia

May 12, 2016

When I first saw extreme metal Brooklynites Kosmodemonic, they were killing it on a stage Watain doused with pig’s blood soon after.

Blood/Fire/Death: Watain douses Brooklyn

June 18, 2014

Brooklyn Night Bazaar – June 15th, 2014 Photography by Rodrigo Fredes of PhotoTerco It was Father’s Day, so I arrived early and called my pops outside the venue. I informed him I was seeing a Swedish metal band named Watain shortly, who would likely spit animal blood at the audience. “Well have fun, enjoy your…

BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!

April 4, 2014

We have two beer loves that are in direct contrast to each other: malty German brews and über-hoppy North American brews. These two things have nothing in common taste-wise. They are, of course, brewed with the same ingredients, but the ratios and the particular types of key ingredients used—such as hops, malt and yeast—are dramatically…

BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!

August 23, 2013

Given the opportunity to write about craft beer every month in Decibel has been eye-opening. The idea that our “Brewtal Truth” column would have lasted more than four years (and counting) and even spawn a book—The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers, out in November—is pretty amazing. Now it’s time to bring a little “Brewtal…

STREAMING: Family: “Bridge & Tunnel”

September 4, 2012

We’re sorry to do this to you, but this little premiere we’re going to bust out today, is going to make the next several weeks drag on as you anxiously await the release of Family’s debut album for Pelagic, Portrait, on October 30. We can guarandamntee you we will be spinning our advance copy incessantly….

Call Of The Wild Song Premiere! “Breaking Shit”

August 21, 2012

Breaking Shit by Decibel Magazine It’s strange to be premiering a song off Leave Your Leather On because I’ve been blasting the album for weeks. (It pays to be a big-time journalist.) And yes, I know – I guess these guys forgot about that Limp Biscuit song. Who cares? Stuff still has to get broken…

Drinkin’ n’ Bloggin’ With Carson of Tombs

July 12, 2011

It’s a well-established fact that we like to drink beer and listen to metal. But second only to that pursuit is being able to talk brewskis with other like-minded beer geeks. So upon hearing that Tombs bassist Carson Daniel James is an equally devout barley-pop imbiber, we called him to talk (and drink) beer. Decibel…