Brooklyn

Brooklyn-based queer and femme folk metalers Zelenaya drop their new album Folk Songs on April 26, and are beyond stoked to unleash the third single from that record, “Spod Tego Jawora,” with us!

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stream the stellar new album from Mutilation Rites now.

Drown in the mirage with a hypnotizing new song from Anicon.

A surprise special brew, Morbid Hour Black Pilsner, from Brooklyn’s Kings County Brewers Collective will be poured at the Decibel Metal and Beer Festival this weekend.

Stream Teneral from NYC-based black metal outfit Pyrolatrous.

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.

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. 

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

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…