grindcore

Stream a new song from Australian extreme metal leaders King Parrot now!

Matt Olivo shows us how it’s done in a new Expulsion guitar playthrough.

God Mother are as exhilarating as they are aggressive. Listen to a new song from their Party Smasher Inc. debut now!

We chat with ex-Kill The Client/current BLK OPS vocalist/aural assassin, Champ Morgan, about neck surgery, the fall of civilization as we know it, the future of grindcore, and everything in-between.

There’s nothing cooler than a logo, a mark, an emblem. From extreme music’s inception, artists–thrash metal, grindcore, death metal, doom metal, black metal, etc.–have placed a heavy weight on their logos. Some are immediately recognizable (like Metallica, Death, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Cathedral), some aren’t so cleverly designed. Over the years, Decibel has top-listed logos for our most favorite of extremely extreme genres. Today, we dissect and pontificate on the Top 5 Grindcore Logos. Music isn’t considered as part of the findings, as that would unfairly settle the list. So, find out who tops our list. And argue about it.

Virginian pit-stirrers High Priest blast out hardcore/grind extinction sermons on their ferocious Grail Sludge EP.

Nightmare Future
Arise to grind anew
dB rating: 9/10

Sunlight’s Bane reveal an unsettling video for “Begrudging Soul.” 

Stream the grind-tastic new split release from Birdflesh and Organ Dealer. 

California grind lifers Phobia are back with a new album, and we caught up with them to talk shop.

Stream the first new music from rabid grinders Leng Tch’e since their last album in 2010. 

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Loss, The Holy Circle, Danzig and Full of Hell. 

Demonization
Lock’n like Dokken
dB rating: 9/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Casket Huffer, Altar of Betelgeuze and Necrowretch. 

A year is just a year. But oh what a year it was: Death, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Bathory, Sodom, Anthrax and more!

Consisting of members from both Wake and Seminary, easily two of Canada’s best grind bands, you may be skeptical about this turn towards “Blackened doom.” But their five-song debut goes way beyond what anyone is expecting. 

The Doctor is in. Anything involving black metal convention is out. 

Pain Tank is on a killing frenzy, or at least exposing one, on 97,901,726 Confirmed Kills.

Clenched Fist, the all-star Sepultura cover band featuring members of Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Misery Index will perform at the post-Decibel Metal And Beer Fest show.

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

Lock Up has a new vocalist but haven’t slowed down with “Desolation Architect.” 

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. 

In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.

Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016. 

On new track “Anathema,” the Drip only grind in drops, but that’s when the hammer really drops. 

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10

Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.

Venom Prison‘s debut full length is a pissed off, forceful death metal album.

Pocho Aztlan
Larga vida a Juan Brujo
dB rating: 8/10