Dark Descent Records

We have a limited number of advance copies of the November issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Hyperdontia flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

Featuring members of Sulphurous and Deiquisitor, HAD emerge from the Copenhagen underground with an uncanny and foreboding power to wield devastating darkness.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Hyperdontia flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new song as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

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…