death metal

Portuguese death metal crew The Ominous Circle are a mysterious bunch, so we caught up with them just before their debut LP drops to try to make some sense out of it all.

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

The next 20 copies sold of Choosing Death (hardcover and paper) and the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II will be signed by Decibel editor in chief Albert Mudrian. 

Transcontinental duo Montfaucon tempers death-doom with elements of progressive, black and symphonic metal, creating an amalgamation of heaviness and melody. 

Brutal Unrest unveil Trinitas, their pummeling third full-length. 

Death metal legends Immolation get their first Decibel cover. Grab a copy here. 

Appalling Ascension
Dark matters
dB rating: 8/10

In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.

Celebrate the death of 2016 with Philly-based label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.

Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we are visited by the ghost of Underground Metal Present in the form of the UK’s Spectral Apparition.

War is hell, and hell sounds better than ever on Dead War’s The Triumph of Death.

Listen to Shaarimoth‘s excellent metal of death in “Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams”. We’ve already bowed to our new god. Now, it’s your turn.

Replacire is a noun to describe when your calculator figures out that songs need memorable riffs and interesting melodies. 

Colosso writes huge death metal. Now you can watch Colosso play huge death metal. 

Interitus
Mass extinction in A minor
dB rating: 8/10

Class is in session, and old school death revivalists Sentient Horror are on the syllabus.

The new Beheaded album looks for a combination of sounds throughout the band’s career, including accompanying visuals that suit the music.

The Ominous Circle are as mysterious as they are impressive. 

Echoes of Dismemberment
Hack ‘n’ slash flashbacks
dB rating: 8/10

Hour of Penance continue their tradition of no-nonsense death metal as they prepare to Cast the First Stone. 

Scum recorded Garden of Shadows 20 years ago. It never saw the light of day, but now it has been unearthed and prepared for release. 

Portland death thrashers Dead Conspiracy are about to release their first full-length since their 1987 formation. Hear it now before it hits the streets. 

Eternal Deformity fuse genres for a unique and challenging listen on No Way Out. 

Sepulchral Psalms from the Abyss of Torment
Inverted, they’ve lived their lives
dB rating: 8/10

Ruinous combines old and new death metal elements on their debut, Graves of Ceaseless Death.  

Fall to your knees before this full stream of Supreme Commanders of Darkness, full length #2 by Santiago’s death metal sacrificionados, Totten Korps—who’ve been lurking in the shadowy depths of the underground since ‘89!

The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10

Trying to follow the Swedish death metal institution’s lineup throughout the years takes more brain cells than anyone who has spent most of their life listening to Swedish death metal has left, so it’s a particularly gnarly conundrum.

The new Sepulchral Curse song is a 10-minute epic that will conclude the band’s EP in December.