Doom

Lucifer pay tribute to the heavy rock and proto-metal of decades past on their aptly-titled second album, Lucifer II.

Italian doom rockers Ufomammut and NYC psych deconstructionists White Hills descend from space to entertain us here on Earth.

Norwegian post-metal doom-bringers KITE loudly pursue a quiet place on their The All Penetrating Silence EP.

British doom coven Witchsorrow foreshadow the world’s end on their riveting new LP Hexenhammer.

Sold out since December 2015! Decibel recently acquired a few copies from a distributor — get one while you can!

We have a limited number of advance copies of the July issue of Decibel available now. Have at it!

Austin rockers From Beyond blast synths and heavy space riffs on their otherwordly LP The Band From Beyond.

Hear the new album from Thou.

Old school and older school. Put on Saint Vitus’s 1986 classic Born Too Late and crack a Vitus Weizenbock from a nearly thousand-year-old brewery.

Stream the droning, pained new album from Formalist.

British doom legends Paradise Lost return to the Decibel Hall of Fame for the first time in 13 years.

Oakland rockers Blackwülf team up with doom royalty from Bedemon/Pentagram for their new track “Dead the World.”

Swedish doom coven Anguish return to their chaotic roots in “Blessed Be the Beast,” off their upcoming record Magna est vis Siugnah.

In under eight minutes, New Jersey sludge rockers Clamfight craft an epic tale of one location’s historical and supernatural transformation in “Echoes in Stone.”

UK troublemakers BongCauldron bring the sludge and the fuzz in the skull-splitting premiere of “Bury Your Axe in the Crania of Lesser Men.”

Psychedelic doom overlords Ufomammut will flatten you as they blow your mind. Listen to a new song now.

Stream a new offering from anonymous post-metal cult B R I Q U E V I L L E now!

Stream the entirety of Plastic Surgery by Heavy Traffic.

Trevor William Church of doom rockers Beastmaker talks touring, bad omens, and Vincent Price.

We asked doom-mentor Dorrian about how their contribution came about.  Here’s what he said.

Philly doom conjurers Heavy Temple worship at The Dark Tower on psychedelic eye-opener Chassit.

Hear and acquire the brand new With the Dead (ex-Cathedral, ex-Electric Wizard, ex-Bolt Thrower) flexi disc here. 

Former Cathedral, Electric Wizard and Bolt Thrower members join forces and record new With the Dead track for the Decibel Flexi Series.

DREAM BLOODY GORE shares twisted nightmares, dreams, and hallucinations from members of Gruesome, SubRosa, and Dreaming Dead.

“‘Don’t Walk These Streets’ was really written as a reaction to feeling absolutely alienated and set adrift in the surreal manifestation of the American Dream that is L.A,” Kevin Martin says. “It’s a smacked out jazz, fuzzed up trip, into a social void, that I wrote after realizing there is zero safety net in the States for anyone that falls off the gravy train. And as a pedestrian walking a lot around the city in my stay during the recording of Concrete Desert, I attempted to conjure the feeling of sheer dread that I felt wandering across the Hollyweird landscape.”

Gossamer play an emotionally heavy form of doom metal that uses elements of choral and chamber music to great effect.

UK misery conduits Grim Ravine bring the doom and the sludge on The Light is From Below.

Bleak, noisy doom is what to expect from Unearthly Trance‘s latest single, “Scythe.”

We checked in with two guitarists (Hamish Glencross and Andrew Craighan) and let them gush praise about one of their favorite bands.

There’s something for everyone on the new Dying Whale album, Last Moments of Misery.