death metal

For Those About to Squawk: Deafheaven, Black Fast, Extremity

July 6, 2018

Our reviewer who shits in a cage pecks on new titles from Extremity, Black Fast and controversial black metallers Deafheaven.

Track Premiere: Atavisma – ‘Ashen Ascetic’

July 4, 2018

French death-doom sect Atavisma emerge from their subterranean lair with “Ashen Ascetic” off their debut LP, The Chthonic Rituals.

Revel in Skullcrush’s “Spectacle of Suffering”

June 29, 2018

If you like your death metal to sound like Incantation crossed with Bolt Thrower and “Human Waste”-era Suffocation, you need to get excited about Skullcrush.

Full Album Stream: Hate Diplomacy – “Rant”

June 28, 2018

Stream the new album from brutal death metal outfit Hate Diplomacy, featuring Waking the Cadaver’s Don Campan on vocals.

Gojira – “From Mars to Sirius”

June 27, 2018

Gojira‘s landmark third album, From Mars to Sirius, is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame. Sorry, the whales can’t fit.

Track Premiere: Tunjum – ‘La Maldicion de la Bruja’

June 26, 2018

Check out this devastating track of ritualistic pagan death metal from Peruvian slaughterers Tunjum.

Immortal Grace the Cover of August’s Decibel Issue

June 20, 2018

We have a limited number of grim and frostbitten advance copies of the August issue of Decibel available now. Have at it!

Track Premiere: Abhorrence ‘Anthem for the Anthropocene’

June 18, 2018

Reformed Finnish death metallers Abhorrence premiere new bruiser “Anthem for the Anthropocene.”

Track Premiere: Born to Murder the World – ‘Brutality Alchemist’

June 14, 2018

Stream the first song from Born to Murder the World featuring Shane Embury (Napalm Death) and Mick Kenney (Anaal Nathrakh) now.

Track Premiere: Act of Impalement – ‘Draugr’

June 8, 2018

What would it sound like if cavemen played death metal? Act of Impalement give us a reference point.

Track Premiere: Drawn and Quartered- “Deliverance to the Worms”

June 8, 2018

Seattle’s Drawn and Quartered unleashes yet another “merciless onslaught” on their new track, from the upcoming album “The One Who Lurks.”

Ralph Santolla: 1969-2018

June 6, 2018

Ralph Santolla, who played guitar for numerous extreme metal legends, passed away on June 6.