Doom Metal

Turn your speakers up to 11—it’s time to rock with Portland’s finest, Hippie Death Cult.

European doomsayers Thronehammer reveal their sophomore leviathan, Incantation Rites, streaming in full right here.

Epic blackened doom wraithbringers Abigorum open hell’s gates with the lyric video for their new track, “Der geheimnisvolle Käfig.”

Hear and acquire this Celestial Season flexi disc single, featuring a brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Soul-crushing drone-doom unit Body Void return with demoralizing new single, “Wound.”

Jump in the “Caravan” and follow Acid Mammoth on their quest to the riff-filled land.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, February 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Dutch death/doom kings Celestial Season.

Because we’re not even a full month into 2021 and there is still music to discover. And because you can’t get enough goddamn lists, here are 35 more from 2020 to chew on.

The Ruins of Beverast emerge from the fog of a new year with their sixth LP of cerebral blackened doom, The Thule Grimoires.

Denver’s Scepter of Eligos turn death metal on its head with their debut album Inverted Illusions. Hear the almost-title track right now.

Chicago doomlords The Skull (featuring ex-members of Trouble) roll out the latest video from their second album, The Endless Roads Turns Dark.

Jam “Let Them Bleed,” a new song from Texas doom outfit Thunder Horse.

Tucson, Arizona’s Exsul have arrived on the scene with a masterful witch’s brew of doom, death and black metal darkness.

Watch the new video from recently resurrected Dutch death/doom kings Celestial Season

Hear “The Trees Die Standing,” the first officially released material from Calvin Robertshaw’s (ex-My Dying Bride) black/doom project Many Suffer.

Hear the first new song from Swedish gothic metallers Tribulation in three years.

Heavy metal photographer Jeremy Saffer discusses his upcoming photo book of corpse painted nude portraits, Daughters of Darkness.

Vessel of Light‘s Last Ride is out tomorrow, October 23, but we’ve got the full LP for your earholes right now!

Netherlands-based doom outfit Celestial Season reunite to follow-up Solar Lovers on new track “For Twisted Loveless.” Streaming only at Decibel!

Doom played on brass instruments? It’s more likely than you think!

In advance of their fourth LP, Enlightened in Eternity, hear Spirit Adrift deliver a Sabbath cover from the stacked new Vol. 4 tribute album.

Looking back on Decibel Hall of Famer Stormcrowfleet 25 years later with Skepticism organist Eero Pöyry.

We’re all doomed, so enjoy a selection of Decibel‘s fave new sludge albums for 2020.

The true spirit of metal is alive and well in the heart of Italy’s one-woman old school black/doom metal band Marthe. Hear her demo Sisters of Darkness in all its awesome glory right now.

Stygian Crown‘s debut LP is equal parts Bolt Thrower-inspired rolling thunder and Candlemass-derived epic doom majesty with classically-trained vocals.

Decibel dives deep beyond the Peaceville Three with this death/doom addendum to our our new Decibel Yearbook: 1995 issue.

Göden, featuring Winter members, prolongs misery, suffering, and pain on new album, Beyond Darkness. Streaming now in full only at Decibel!

Hear NYC crushers Funeral Leech embrace the death/doom on debut LP, Death Meditation.

Greek atmospheric death aficionados On Thorns I Lay return with new album, Threnos. Decibel queries guitarist/songwriter Christos Dragamestianos.

Bleak Danish doombearers Alkymist return with a tipping monolith of a preview track from their forthcoming sophomore album, Sanctuary.