death metal
Full Album Stream: Mercyless’ ‘Pathetic Divinity’
August 29, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Lord have Mercyless! Hear the French cult thrashers new album before its October release.
TRACK PREMIERE: FATALIST RETURNS TO DELIVER AN GLORIOUS “ABERRATION”
August 24, 2016 Shawn Macomber
Fatalist isn’t just back from the grave — they blew up the whole goddamn field on their way out the cemetery gates. Decibel is honored to present an exclusive stream of a insanely blistering track from the Ventura, California death-grinders mind-blowing upcoming album The Bitter End, out 9/23 via FDA Rekotz. (Preorder packages here.)
Full Stream: Swamp Witch – ‘The Slithering Bog’
August 18, 2016 Emily Bellino
The Slithering Bog is a suffocating death/doom album that will trip you out as it crushes you.
Auroch premiere new song, ‘He Wreaths the Cross’
August 17, 2016 Emily Bellino
Auroch show no signs of slowing down on the first single from their upcoming third album.
Violation Wound release music video for ‘Combustible Life’
August 16, 2016 Emily Bellino
Autopsy madman Chris Reifert’s Violation Wound project has our vote.
Death Metal vs Black Metal: Book Authors Face Off
August 11, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Two nerds enter. Two nerds leave. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore author Albert Mudrian and Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol 1. author Dayal Patterson talk creative process, Lords of Chaos, Swedish Death Metal and more.
Skeptic Death: Streaming Voidspawn’s debut + Q&A
August 9, 2016 Dutch Pearce
Unless you’ve got a sensory deprivation chamber, Voidspawn’s debut EP Pyrrhic is the closest you’ll get to the dark interstices between the dimensions.
Decibel Q&A: Terence Hannum (Locrian) On His New Novella
August 8, 2016 Justin Norton
Terence Hannum of Locrian talked to Decibel about his new novella Beneath The Remains.
Profanatica
August 8, 2016 Jesse Chase
The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Beats the Hockey Flame of Blasphemy
dB rating: 8/10
Krieg’s Neill Jameson on the Morbosidad/Conflict Incident and Fascism Disguised as Progressivism
August 3, 2016 Neill Jameson
Are the noble intensions of an old-school punk really helping anyone?
Genial Grinder: An Interview With Aborted’s Sven de Caluwé
August 1, 2016 Chris Dick
Belgian death-grind outfit Aborted just celebrated their 20th Anniversary. Well, last year they did. But think of it. 20 years of death, grind, and chopping up listeners into little sanguine bits. The group’s new album, Retrogore, isn’t too far removed from its predecessors, but where it stands on its own, is in the songwriting.
Full Album Stream: Blood Incantation’s ‘Starspawn’ Might Be the Death Metal Album of the Year
July 29, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Denver’s Blood Incantation have crafted an epic slab of death metal that demands your immediate attention. No bullshit.
LET SURGIKILL TAKE YOU ON A DEATH METAL ROCKET SHIP RIDE TO THE “PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES”
July 27, 2016 Shawn Macomber
Decibel caught up with death metal legend Stevo do Caixao and Howling/Wooden Stake mainwoman Vanessa Nocera for a chat about the Surgikill origin story and its reworking/resurrection of the lost/last Impetigo song “Planet of the Vampires.”
ANATA Reissue ‘The Infernal Depths of Hatred’ Debut LP. Stream the Single
July 25, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Pre-orders for the vinyl re-issue of Anata‘s classic debut begin today. Turn back the clock with a full stream of this tech death gem right here.
Dawn of Demise Premiere Song from New Album
July 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
“Deride the Wretch” is the first single from Dawn of Demise‘s new album, The Suffering. The album will be out in late August on Unique Leader Records.
Insane in the Profane: Full stream of the new Profanatica LP
July 18, 2016 Albert Mudrian
The Curling Flame of Blasphemy from Northeast legends Profanatica is our new favorite fist in the face of god.
Stream Defeated Sanity’s “Disposal/Dharmata” In Full!
July 14, 2016 Rod Smith
Stream Defeated Sanity‘s new split EP with… Defeated Sanity!
Deeds of Flesh’s Craig Peters Debuts Track from Destroying the Devoid Project
July 13, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Destroying the Devoid — featuring Deeds of Flesh’s Craig Peters — are your new favorite atmospheric, progressive, melodic, technical death metal one-man side-project.
Q&A with ex-Emperor/The Wretched End main man Samoth
July 11, 2016 Chris Dick
We sit down with the Wretched End‘s Samoth to discuss In These Woods, From These Mountains and why it’s different from its applauded predecessors.
Go Huge – Stream New Song From Colosso
July 5, 2016 Daniel Lake
Hear “Of Hollow Judgement” from Colosso‘s forthcoming death metal steamroller Obnoxious. (That’s the album title, not commentary on releasing new death metal steamrollers.)
Rami Jämsä (Convulse) interviewed
June 27, 2016 Chris Dick
Read on as we interrogate Convulse leader Rami Jämsä.
Kyle from Incantation Has a Side Project: Shed the Skin Full Album Stream
June 24, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Cleveland, you have yet another reason to celebrate this week. Shed the Skin debut LP is out today!
Demo:listen: Pile Of Excrements
June 24, 2016 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we roll up our sleeves and get right down to it with Athens’ Pile Of Excrements.
STREAMING: Centinex “Generation Of Flies”
June 20, 2016 Chris Dick
Since 1990, Sweden’s Centinex, despite a brief breakup, have ruled underground death metal with an iron fist. With stints on labels like Underground Records, Emanzipation Productions, Repulse Records, Candlelight Records, and now Agonia Records, the merchants of death have kept their profile six feet under while continuing to wave the maggot-infested flag of true death metal.
Terry Butler on New Death Metal Supergroup: Hideous
June 17, 2016 J. Andrew
Hideous: a new old-school death metal supergroup worth readying that denim vest for!
Unmerciful Unmercifully Premiere “Unmerciful”
June 16, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Brutal death metallers Unmerciful premiere their opus eponymous.
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Napalm Death’s “Diatribes,” “Inside the Torn Apart” & “Words from the Exit Wound”
June 16, 2016 Greg Pratt
Even Napalm Death had growing pains. Our latest Justify Your Shitty Taste defends that era of the legendary grindcore band.
Ex-Pyrexia Vocalist Arrested in Alleged Shooting of Three Men
June 14, 2016 James Lewis
Not quite our typical news associated with death metal….