Germany

Check out this exclusive premiere of the new EP from German death doomers Gravehammer.

Germany-based death metal trio Scythe Lore reap what they sow on new EP, “Through the Mausoleums of Man.” Streaming now at Decibel Magazine.

There’s “Only” one thing to do: listen to a new song from This is Not an Elephant.

The nocturnal march continues- the black metal horde of Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult will finally release a new album on April 12.

Check out the video for “Drohende Schatten,” from Germany’s Der Rote Milan, inspired by some colorful and consequential events in German history.

Hear a new song from multi-national black metal duo Imha Tarikat.

Germany’s power metal stalwarts Primal Fear discuss their best album in years, Apocalypse.

Listen to German atmospheric black metallers Firtan’s stunning new album “Okeanos”.

Supreme Carnage go for the throat on new album Morbid Ways to Die.

Dirkschneider drummer Sven Dirkschneider responds to Decibel’s inquiries about touring, his dad Udo, and what’s next.

Germany-based psych-doom purveyors Black Salvation blow minds on new album, Uncertainty is Bliss.

Watch a new Iron Angel music video now.

Stream Wedge‘s new album, Killing Tongue right now.

German black metallers Chaos Invocation put the fear of death in you with new track “Calling From Dudail.”

Kreator‘s Pleasure to Kill is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Formed in 2009, Germany’s Sacrilegious Rite (featuring ex-members of Capitis Damnare and Bael) bubbled up from the ever-dark Underworld with spiteful intent. The group’s debut EP, Sexual Blood Rites–a split with Teutonic legends Ungod–scarred the Continental landscape upon its 2011 release. Now, six years (and several EP/splits) later, the Germans have returned with their debut…

Stream a varied new song from German black metal outfit Tyakrah now.

Stream a new track from the German black metal band.

Obelyskkh deliver a slab of crushing doom on “Northern Lights.”

Brutal Unrest unveil Trinitas, their pummeling third full-length. 

Just in time for the holiday season, we bring you this exclusive full album stream of Veneration of Armageddon, the sophomore record from Germany’s Goatblood.

Dust Bolt have released a music video for “SickxBrain,” giving plenty of screen time to their moshing fans.

“Only a handful of bands dare to leave the narrow(minded) frame which dictates what is so-called ‘true’ and what earns a negative connotation as ‘hip’. 95% of these traditionalist bands are the copycats of the copycats of the early 90ies Norwegian scene.”

German/Yank quartet Downfall of Gaia have returned with their latest attack on the status quo with Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay, the band’s third complete full-length.  This is a late-in-the-year offering you’ll want to pay some attention, as it gathers all shades of darkness, then both pets and pummels you with it.  It’s occasionally sludgy,…

With all the music that comes across the Decibel desk in a month (hell, in a single week), I find it can help to stick labels on music that I want to be sure to spend time with.  Earlier this year, when Owl’s Into the Absolute EP came down, I tagged it with the descriptor “weird death metal”…

Last year we featured a German drone/doom project called The Cold View, who had, at that point, recorded a five-song suite called Weeping Winter that could successfully leech all heat-potential from a newborn star and leave behind only frozen dust and brittle ash. Luckily for anyone still able to feel positive emotion after listening to Weeping Winter,…

The metal institution known as Grave Digger has been around almost as long as the genre of heavy metal. They will release their seventeenth album (yes, that’s correct) called Return Of The Reaper on July 11. Your friends at Decibel got a chance to premiere the lyric video of the track “Season Of The Witch.”…

Finally, it’s here!  I’m referring to the one weekend every year when even the brightest eyed, bushiest tailed Christian joins our cult of death for 48 hours and worships the treachery of friends, agonizing torture and public humiliation, and the brutal suffocation of a (reportedly) innocent life, just before we all pay lip service to…

If you don’t live along the east coast of the United States, then maybe you’re having a chest-beating trad metal day, or a beat-on-your-desk black/thrash day, or even a middle-finger-hoisting death metal day.  But if you were in the path of the snow storm that dumped a few lead-heavy white blankets up and down the Eastern Seaboard, then you probably…

If there’s one thing that Germany seems to love it is adherence to tradition. Germans love their metal old-school and their beer made from just four ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops. Which is the way its been brewed since the Reinheitsgebot (German Beer Purity Law) was established in 1516. So for nearly 500 years…