Dark Descent Records

To celebrate Dark Descent Records’ 10th anniversary, we caught up with owner Matt Calvert to find out what five DD releases mean the most to him.

Hear Crypt Sermon‘s four-years-in-the-making doom metal juggernaut The Ruins of Fading Light in full.

Tickets for the eighth annual Decibel Magazine Tour, featuring co-headliners Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel, with support from Immolation (select dates), Necrot and Blood Incantation, are ON SALE NOW!

Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Necrot and Blood Incantation unite for Decibel’s latest American live campaign this February. Tickets on sale Friday, November 16 at 10am local time.

Finnish black metal phenoms Devouring Star explore Sin as a divine trait on new song “Scar Inscriptions.”

Stream the awesome new Father Befouled record in full!

Stream the title track from Father Befouled‘s first album in five years!

Sweden’s Gravehammer met its maker in 2010. Despite the group only issuing a lone EP, 2010’s Ensnared in Dismal Blasphemies, the Gothenburgers were well on their way to Nordic infamy, their hybridization of death, black, and thrash metal on either end of Decameron, Grotesque, and vintage Kreator. Now, known as Ensnared, the Swedes have taken what they learned on the fiery path with Gravehammer into new depths of darkness, where the horns of Hell blare violently and incessantly, where the air is insufferably hot and smells of brimstone cooking in the vast ovens of the underworld.

It’s been a long time coming, but Sarcasm are releasing their second album, and we caught up with them to get the scoop.

Craven Idol lead a blackened assault on greed and mindless worship on The Shackles of Mammon.

Severed Monolith
On the chopping block
dB rating: 8/10

Swedish death dealers Sarcasm are streaming a new song!

Stream Ascended Dead‘s unholy first full-length offering ahead of its official release date.

Antihedron is Devouring Star’s excellent follow up to 2015’s Through Lung and Heart. 

Return to deep space with Gorephilia on their sophomore LP, the (inter)stellar Severed Monolith. 

Sleep and Agoraphobic Nosebleed headline the first-annual two-day celebration of extreme metal and craft beer presented by Unibroue

Ruinous combines old and new death metal elements on their debut, Graves of Ceaseless Death.  

Krypts‘ second album is another impressive piece of death-doom. Stream it in full before it hits the streets next week.

Temple of Phobos
Cower power
dB rating: 8/10

One email for a chance to make your collection 10 (ripping, crushing, raging, etc. etc., you get the point) entries heavier. 

Denver’s Blood Incantation have crafted an epic slab of death metal that demands your immediate attention. No bullshit.

Dark Descent Records is one of the best underground metal labels of 2016. But who is the man behind the label?

Bringer of Drought
Thirsty and miserable
dB rating: 8/10

San Diego dour trio Ghoulgotha offer up another tantalizing peek at their forthcoming LP, To Starve the Cross.

Drink up the new LP from Montreal death dealers Phobocosm in full. 

Gravehill rule for a whole bunch of reasons. The Californian alpha-headbangers just have this anything goes attitude to playing gory ol’ school death metal and would just as soon mix in a little hardcore punk and crust feel as they are to bring it down slow and low and meditate upon a doom riff for…

The Internet is the darnest thing. One minute you could be sifting YouTube to harvest bootlegged footage of metal dudes on cooking shows, the next you could be jamming a new track from band whose oeuvre is every bit as esoteric an experience as seeing Marty Friedman on a Japanese cookery show. Maybe there is…

Ladies and germs, pray silence please for Craven Idol’s Towards Eschaton. Pull up the easy chair, pull on the headphones; you’ll no doubt find the north Londoners’ debut long-player an extreme metal album of rare power. This here’s a bona fide contender for album of the year, a soundtrack for those evenings when your ouija…

Dark Descent Records have announced a two-day showcase festival at the Ash Street Saloon, Portland OR for October 4th and 5th. And the lineup (below), presented by Dark Descent in association with Parasitic Records and Ash St PDX is the exactly sort of super-necrotic death/doom/black bill of extremity that’s guaranteed to help you shake out…

Lantern are a two-man death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, whose debut LP, Below, is the sort of warped and twisted 40-minute head-trip that should be mother’s milk to all those Decibangers who were weaned on the impenetrable darkness of bands such as Demilich and Demigod. Formed by a surprisingly mellow dude with a a…