death metal

In which Sculptured, ex-Agalloch guitarist Don Anderson and Decibel‘s Forrest Pitts discuss the tonal impact of Anton Webern’s Opus 21 symphony.

Vile Ritual blend subterranean blackened death metal with dark psychedelia on “Tongues of the Examinate.”

Arizona-based death-doom troupe Thorn unveil “Hellmouth” off new album, Yawning Depths.

English sci-fi brutal death force Body Asphyxiation Science invades this week’s Demo:listen.

Boston death thrashers Soul Remnants bring the visual violence on the new clip for “Cult Destroyer.”

Finnish trio Tormentor Tyrant share their vicious self-titled track as a declaration of death metal violence.

Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..

Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”

Australian death metal hellbringers Descent unshroud their newest single, “Fester.” Their album Order of Chaos is due out January 14th.

Discovered in the dankest depths of the Salt Lake City underground, death-drenched two-piece Ootheca corrupt this week’s Demo:listen.

Horror! Pain! Gore! Death! What’s next? A 2021 sampler featuring every artist the underground metal label put out in 2021.

Philippines-based death metal act Nullification bust out of 1992 streaming new track “I, the Nullifier.” Only the past is real!

Members of Contrarian, Witherfall/Sanctuary, and Flotsam and Jetsam deliver as masterclass in this cover of Death’s “The Philosopher.”

Decibel‘s got exclusive limited editions of the new Immolation album Acts of God on CD longbox and cassette. Move fast!

Death metal vets celebrate blood and guts in Gore Brigade.

Prepare to be buried under heaps of crushing darkness on Malignant Altar‘s debut album, streaming exclusively at Decibel!

Indiana melodic death/thrash grave-burners Death on Fire release their newest single, “Slave.” Their album Burial Hymns looms in 2022.

Psyched out Swedish death metallers Reveal! stream the manic brilliance of new album Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice Records).

Tickets to the new dates will be available for purchase on Wednesday, November 24 at 10am local time. Dates for previously announced Decibel Magazine Tour shows are ON SALE NOW!

Of all the albums that arrived this year Teeth‘s Finite was the most welcome surprise. Not long after I listened to it I wrote the following: “the fact that it’s nearly impossible to describe Finite speaks to how perfect it is for our extraordinarily challenging times — times where the truth itself is under assault. We…

Each Khemmis member shares five albums that personally influenced them while writing and producing their upcoming LP, Deceiver.

Dream Unending, featuring members of Tomb Mold and Innumerable Forms, stream new album, Tide Turns Eternal (20 Buck Spin). Doomed to dream!

This week Demo:listen rots with US-based death/doom trio Accursed Womb.

Cult Never Dies publishes a Z.A.S.T. zine anthology. We chat with the former editor, one Havard “Mortiis” Ellefsen, all about it.

Myrdød‘s new song sounds like “a spiraling shared nightmare. Two souls dying on Earth, both trapped in the same dream plane.”

Enter a death metal vortex with “Gorgonhead,” the latest offering from Danish outfit Phrenelith.

This week’s Demo:listen premieres the cerebral and crushing debut from UK-based next-level death rippers Vaticinal Rites.

Germany-based death metallers Sijjin scream forth blasphemies on new album, Sumerian Promises. Streaming in sandswept full at Decibel!

At 10am local time, you can nab tickets to the 2022 Decibel Magazine Tour, kicking off in January with Obituary, Municipal Waste, Gatecreeper, Enforced and SpiritWorld.

Stream the brand-new skull-cleaving split release between mongo-brutal Strayans Vile Apparition and aggro-prog Italian deathbringers Miscreance.