death metal

Explore one of Greece’s more extreme labels, Celtic Fog Productions.

Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness
A tiny light prevails in the darkness
dB rating: 8/10

Tanakh grapple with loss and the nature of existence. 

Ray Suhy (Cannabis Corpse, Six Feet Under, ex-East of the Wall) has returned with a new solo EP. Decibel talked to the guitarist about expectations and writing an instrumental record.

Moribundo conjure melancholic death/doom on their debut album.

Melodic black/death powerhouse SinnerAngel share a new single.

Watch Withered‘s performance from Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.

There’s only one Duplicate Records.

Interview tips from our resident birdbrains, plus pecking on Cemetery Urn, Tombs and Dying Fetus. 

Delve into a cavernous atmosphere of riffs and growls on the latest installment of Desecresy’s forward-looking approach to death metal.

Stream a new song from Danish death dealers Undergang.

Ursinne (ex-Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower) are on the internet in 360 degrees.

Blood Offerings
Axe of the unspeakable
dB rating: 9/10

Watch a new video from Finnish stoner death/doom group Altar of Betelgeuze. 

Stream the grind-tastic new split release from Birdflesh and Organ Dealer. 

Stream a new song from French death dealers Bliss of Flesh. 

Interpretative dance meets death metal in the new Beyond Grace video.

Watch Immolation‘s entire set from Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, plus an introduction from Dave Mustaine.

Stream a new song from Italian death metallers Helslave, their first release with new vocalist Diego Laino.

A Stirring in the Noos
Young gods
dB rating: 8/10

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

Gods Forsaken go for the throat with crusty, old-school Swedish death metal.

Experience a genre-smashing industrial assault from Birmingham duo khost.

Check out the lyric video for “An Apathetic Grave” from Vallenfyre‘s upcoming third record, Fear Those Who Fear Him.

Melodic thrash metal crew Dead Asylum premiere “Defiance” from new album Death Always Wins. 

In a rave review, Jonathan Horsley describes the sophomore full-length from Artificial Brain, Infrared Horizon, as an album which “envisions an extinct humanity, our place in the universe taken by robots and cyborgs, synthetics who believe they have naturally evolved from mankind, as though the species of Aristotle, Einstein, da Vinci was only ever primordial goo,” adding that vocalist Will Smith’s lyrics “read like Mr. Spock took a word cloud of Skynet’s internet search history and made beat poetry of it.” Combined with the decidedly sci-fi imagery the Long Island quintet employs for both album artwork and tour posters, it seemed apropos to reach out the the band for a list of their literary influences.

The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Loss, The Holy Circle, Danzig and Full of Hell. 

Stream Angelplague, the latest full length from New Jersey death crew Kalopsia. 

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