death metal

Being inspired by the classics doesn’t mean you can just follow through and pull off something worthy of your forebears. But someone in Portland has unbolted a crypt and unleashed the debut four-song EP Summon Horrendous Destruction by Petrification. 

Atonement
Making good for 29 years
dB rating: 9/10

Benighted unleash a grinding death metal assault against you on their new album, Necrobreed. 

Death metal legends Obituary join the Decibel Flexi Series. Ultra-limited quantities available, so act fast! 

Henry Kane, the solo project of Wombbath’s Jonny Pettersson, bombard the listener with crust-influenced death metal.

Condemned faced a number of lineup changes, but His Divine Shadow has a fuller, more improved sound that can be heard on songs like “Legion.”

Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit. 

Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.

Pestifer‘s debut album, Execration Diatribes, rips, shreds and thrashes in all the right places. 

Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds today to the ACLU in the continued fight for human rights around the world. Here are 5 releases to consider purchasing today. 

Curse of Denial brings original blackened death. 

Finnish death metal heroes Demilich are the exclusive “bonus track” Hall of Fame in the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II book.

“We’re making sludge through a death metal lens,” Moros drummer Jason Dost tells Decibel. “I can’t say we are a death metal band but the horror and savageness of that early death metal sound influences what we do for sure.” 

Happily, that proves to be a pretty goddamn spot-on self-assessment as one jams this seriously intense, head-turning Moros split with Black Urn  — a straight-up enigmatic-yet-primal nightmare translated into assaultive sound waves.

Dead Conspiracy premiere a new music video for “Paralyzed With Terror” to go with their self-titled album, which they independently released in November.

Subscribe by January 30, and get the “No,” new Obituary flexi disc from Decibel!

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.