death metal
Full Album Stream: Brutal Unrest – ‘Trinitas’
January 11, 2017 Emily Bellino
Brutal Unrest unveil Trinitas, their pummeling third full-length.
Immolation Grace the Cover of Decibel! Advance Copies Available
January 9, 2017 Albert Mudrian
Death metal legends Immolation get their first Decibel cover. Grab a copy here.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of Grind, Death and Power
January 6, 2017 Albert Mudrian
In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.
Slam 2016’s Coffin Lid Shut with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
January 4, 2017 Sean Frasier
Celebrate the death of 2016 with Philly-based label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
For Those About To Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks Of The Year
December 23, 2016 Blake Harrison
Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016.
Demo:listen: Spectral Apparition
December 23, 2016 Dutch Pearce
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.
Full Album Stream: Wake Up and Smell the Napalm with Dead War
December 21, 2016 Sean Frasier
War is hell, and hell sounds better than ever on Dead War’s The Triumph of Death.
STREAMING: Shaarimoth “Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams”
December 19, 2016 Chris Dick
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.
Track Premiere: Replacire – ‘Do Not Deviate’
December 15, 2016 Emily Bellino
Replacire is a noun to describe when your calculator figures out that songs need memorable riffs and interesting melodies.
Video: Colosso – ‘In Memoriam’ Guitar Playthrough
December 12, 2016 Emily Bellino
Colosso writes huge death metal. Now you can watch Colosso play huge death metal.
Full Album Stream: Study “Ungodly Forms” with Sentient Horror
December 7, 2016 Sean Frasier
Class is in session, and old school death revivalists Sentient Horror are on the syllabus.
Video Premiere: Beheaded – ‘Beast Incarnate’
December 6, 2016 Emily Bellino
The new Beheaded album looks for a combination of sounds throughout the band’s career, including accompanying visuals that suit the music.
Track Premiere: The Ominous Circle – ‘Poison Fumes’
December 1, 2016 Emily Bellino
The Ominous Circle are as mysterious as they are impressive.
Scorched
November 28, 2016 Sean Frasier
Echoes of Dismemberment
Hack ‘n’ slash flashbacks
dB rating: 8/10
Hour of Penance Debut First Song From ‘Cast The First Stone’
November 25, 2016 Emily Bellino
Hour of Penance continue their tradition of no-nonsense death metal as they prepare to Cast the First Stone.
Track Premiere: Scum – ‘I Am Messiah’
November 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
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.
Full Album Stream: Dead Conspiracy – ‘Dead Conspiracy’
November 11, 2016 Emily Bellino
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.
Full Album Stream: Eternal Deformity Bend Genres On ‘No Way Out’
November 8, 2016 Emily Bellino
Eternal Deformity fuse genres for a unique and challenging listen on No Way Out.
Kingdom
November 7, 2016 Chris Dick
Sepulchral Psalms from the Abyss of Torment
Inverted, they’ve lived their lives
dB rating: 8/10
Full Album Stream: Ruinous – ‘Graves of Ceaseless Death’
November 4, 2016 Emily Bellino
Ruinous combines old and new death metal elements on their debut, Graves of Ceaseless Death.
Everlasting Death: Stream Totten Korps’ Supreme Commanders of Darkness
November 1, 2016 Dutch Pearce
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!
Anaal Nathrakh
October 31, 2016 Jeff Treppel
The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10
Entombed – “Clandestine”
October 27, 2016 Greg Pratt
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.
Track Premiere: Sepulchral Curse – ‘Disrupting Lights of Extinction’
October 27, 2016 Emily Bellino
The new Sepulchral Curse song is a 10-minute epic that will conclude the band’s EP in December.
Full Album Stream: Profanal’s “Supreme Fire” will Burn you Alive
October 26, 2016 Sean Frasier
Italian bruisers Profanal prove Swedeath is the sweetest death on Supreme Fire.
Cadaveric Fumes
October 24, 2016 Dutch Pearce
Dimensions Obscure
To elasticity and beyond!
dB rating: 8/10
Full Album Stream: Vorator – ‘Italic Raids’
October 20, 2016 Neill Jameson
There’s nothing gimmicky about the new Vorator. Italic Raids doesn’t come out until next week, but it is streaming right here.
Immolation Unveil 25th Anniversary Re-recording of “Immolation” Via Decibel Flexi Series!
October 19, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Death metal legends Immolation re-record legendary “Immolation” track for the not-so-legendary-but-still-pretty-cool Decibel Flexi Series. Hear it and snag a copy NOW.