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Chicago death purveyors Cardiac Arrest drop new track ‘Professional Victim.’

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Prepare to be “Mutilated and Assimilated” by Chicago death metal outfit Broken Hope. 

In a couple weeks, the Chi-town quartet Arriver will blast their frenetic, exacting noise of death out through your ass, by way of their December 2nd release, Emeritus.  Today, we give you the song “URSa,” as good an entry point as any (though it’s the record’s penultimate track) to the band’s sound.  Don’t let this be your only dip into their pool, though.

Chicago, Illinois has long been home to some of the harshest, ugliest metal sounds, and Polyptych continue the tradition in splendid form.

Dethbeds plays loud and Dethbeds plays fast. Dethbeds has a new album coming out October 11, but you can listen to a (loud and fast) new song now. 

In recent years, Chicago has been home to all sorts of experimental and off-the-path metal. Lest you forget it’s also the hometown of Paul Speckmann of Master, scads of restaurants that serve large racks of meat and tons of old-school goodness. On that note, Decibel is happy to provide an exclusive stream of Scythe’s “Leather…

Unlike some of our previous “premieres,” this one is timed just perfectly. Chicago trad-metal quartet, Bible of the Devil, will be releasing their sixth full-length album, For The Love Of Thugs And Fools, today, May, 8 via Cruz Del Sur Music. It’s their first full-length, since 2008’s Freedom Metal and it’s just the kind of…