death metal

Cleveland, you have yet another reason to celebrate this week. Shed the Skin debut LP is out today!

On this week’s Demo:listen, we roll up our sleeves and get right down to it with Athens’ Pile Of Excrements.

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.

Unortheta
Nothing’s zhocking
dB rating: 8/10

Hideous: a new old-school death metal supergroup worth readying that denim vest for!

Brutal death metallers Unmerciful premiere their opus eponymous. 

Even Napalm Death had growing pains. Our latest Justify Your Shitty Taste defends that era of the legendary grindcore band.

Not quite our typical news associated with death metal….

Old-school death metal from down under with AC/DC puns: What is not to love about Sewercide? 

Temple Nightside welcome you to their “Fortress of Burden and Distress.” 

Celebrate Death‘s Scream Bloody Gore reissue with these never-before-seen interview cuts about the LP from limited edition Choosing Death book.

Scream Bloody Gore
Eternal howl
dB rating: 9/10

Guitarist/vocalist Jason Mendonça is excited and filled with positivity. And you should be, too. 

War master Andy Whale re-enters the realm of chaos for death/grind victory with Memoriam.

Nails deliver a their first Decibel cover and 2016’s first Album of the Year contender.

Creepsylvanian death/thrash miscreants Ghoul join the Decibel Flexi Series.

Drink up the new LP from Montreal death dealers Phobocosm in full. 

Endless Pilgrimage
A time to kill, a time to heal.
dB Rating: 8/10

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is a near-perfect death metal album—absolutely pummeling and technically astonishing, yet layered with unique instrumentation and musical phrasing that give it an ancient, otherworldly atmosphere. Ranking such a slab of awesomeness from “worst to best” is about as ridiculous as Sully Erna’s face tattoo, but that’s never stopped us before!

Grief Relic
Be like Mike
dB Rating: 8/10

Catching up with Rick Rozz (& bassist/vocalist Michael Grim) to exacerbate our need to hear the debut EP of his new band, The End.

A Gojira-like sledgehammer for your skull. That’s what Fridays call for, right?

New album, Bereft, turns all the black/death goodness up to (generating random and completely unexpected number) eleven, and we demanded an audience with Côté.  You might have read some of Côté’s thoughts in Issue #139 (May 2016, Amon Amarth cover), but now you can check out the rest of the interview and get a listen to this consistently powerful underground metal act.

Hear the first new Asphyx song in four years, which also happens to be the new official Decibel theme song.

In anticipation of Choosing Death Fest, get your weird on with Horrendous.

No parasites or dirty needles are involved. Hopefully. 

Necro + rot in the title = alive + fresh in the songs. In a crypt-dwelling, corpse-ridden sort of way, that is. 

“Forces of Death,” from upcoming Scream Bloody Gore/demos-inspired Dimensions of Horror, is the Deathly metal you need in your day. Immediately.

Originally printed in our April 2016 issue, get acquainted with death ahead of the big event (Choosing Death Fest, that is). 

“Des Siecles a décimer” calls for immediate headbanging promptly followed by a horror film of the utmost goriness.