death metal

STREAMING: Ensnared “Dysangelium”

May 8, 2017

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.

Video Premiere: The Summoned – ‘Fractal Patterns’

April 27, 2017

Lowell, MA tech-death outfit The Summoned unveil the video for “Fractal Patterns.”

Dream Bloody Gore: Dreams from Horrendous, Ides of Gemini, and Craven Idol

April 26, 2017

Dream Bloody Gore compiles twisted nightmares shared by members of Horrendous, Ides of Gemini, and Craven Idol.

FULL ALBUM STREAM: CASKET HUFFER PREACHES “GOSPELS OF SCUM”

April 19, 2017

It takes a pretty goddamn nasty mix of sludge, crust, and top shelf death metal to live up to a name like Casket Huffer(!), but this Wyoming quartet pulls it off on its fantastic, ridiculously under the radar full-length sneak attack debut Gospels of Scum

Demo:listen: Fetid

April 14, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we recoil and blanch in the presence of Seattle’s Fetid.

Label Spotlight: Deathrash Armageddon

April 10, 2017

Deathrash Armageddon is a Japanese label that releases a number of raw thrash and black metal bands. 

10 Great Albums From 1987

April 7, 2017

A year is just a year. But oh what a year it was: Death, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Bathory, Sodom, Anthrax and more!

Label Spotlight: Black Lion Records

April 4, 2017

Black Lion Records have released a number of impressive death, black and doom metal albums recently. Check out some of the best.

Gorephilia

April 3, 2017

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

Video Premiere: Deathrite “Into the Ever Black”

March 31, 2017

New Wave of Old-School Death Metal crew Deathrite return to rattle your bones with a new single and video.

Cannibal Corpse – “The Bleeding”

March 28, 2017

By 1993, Cannibal Corpse was an interesting conundrum: When you have hammer-smashed every boundary of decency and good taste on your third album, where exactly do you go?

Label Report: Witches Brew

March 27, 2017

Witches Brew provide a home for underground death, thrash and heavy metal bands.

Demo:listen: Disincarnation

March 17, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we sing the praises of the Slime God in vain hope that doing so might preserve us against that awful deity invoked by San Jose’s Disincarnation.

The Decibel Magazine Tour Starts TODAY! Get Tickets Now!

March 17, 2017

Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous embark on the sixth annual Decibel Magazine Tour starting TODAY. Got tickets? 

DREAM BLOODY GORE: Dreams from Gruesome, SubRosa, and Dreaming Dead

March 15, 2017

DREAM BLOODY GORE shares twisted nightmares, dreams, and hallucinations from members of Gruesome, SubRosa, and Dreaming Dead.